Also in other sports:nbaFred Taylor (SG · 1971–1972), mlbFred Taylor (1B · 1950–1952).

Fred Taylor ranks in the all-time elite tier for running backs — a career that places Taylor in the top 5% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Taylor a career score of 79, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

RBNE#21ACT

Fred Taylor

1× Pro Bowl👑 Dynasty DNA · 8 seasons · 2 titles Top 4% all-time RBsAll-Time Great🌅 Early Bloomer · 2000 Team Carrier · #110

Height

Career Value · VORP

245 career value over replacement — #225 all-time of 4,649. 20.4/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

6 top-10 seasonstop-10 marks

Draft OutcomeValue ↑

Pick #9 (Rd 1) · JAX · 1998 · +18.8 vs expected KV-H

79actual

60.2 expected · Δ+18.8

💔+71 stolen VORP·3.38 szns lost

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Team Carrier Evidence

Ranked #110 of 600 by seasons where high individual production happened on low-win teams. Score aggregates only tracked StatVault categories.

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Total Score

4 qualifying seasons

2003 JAX·5 team wins#6

Rushing Yards · 1,572 · score 40

2002 JAX·6 team wins#8

Rushing Yards · 1,314 · score 18

2002 JAX·6 team wins#13

Rushing Touchdowns · 8 · score 13

All-Time Standing

how this career measures against the all-time greats at the position

Solid

of 100

Reached 64% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

64% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader64

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leaderat this position. Built only from visible encyclopedia data — career production vs. the all-time leader, plus efficiency (EPA) and comparable-player confidence — so it's a transparent context score, not a subjective rating. Tiers: Elite ≥ 85 · Strong ≥ 65 · Solid ≥ 45 · Depth < 45. Comparable-player confidence: 93%.

Encyclopedia Coverage4/8 data layers

StatVault aggregates multiple open-licensed and proprietary sources into a single profile. The depth indicator above shows which layers are available for this player.

Bio & DraftBirth date, height/weight, draft round/pick, college — sourced from nflverse players.csv (CC-BY 4.0). Covers all NFL eras.

Season Stats (1999–present)Week-by-week box scores aggregated to season totals: passing, rushing, receiving, defense. Source: nflverse player_stats. Counting stats are exact; rates are derived.

Advanced (EPA, 1999–present)Not available for this player

Snap Counts (2012–present)Not available for this player

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

Playoff vs Regular Season

📊 Consistent

Yards / Carry: 4.6 regular season → 4.8 playoffs (4 playoff seasons)

+4%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

14,043

11,659 rush · 2,384 recv

Total TDs

66 rush · 8 recv

Total Touches

2,818

2,528 carries · 290 rec

Yds / Touch

5.0

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones10

Major career thresholds crossed, derived from regular-season totals (1999+).

19981K career rushing yards
20003K career rushing yards
200025 career rushing TDs
20021K career receiving yards
2002100 career receptions
20035K career rushing yards
2005

Understanding These Stats

Rushing

Att — Rushing attempts (carries).

Yds — Rushing yards.

TD — Rushing touchdowns.

Y/A — Yards per carry — rushing yards ÷ carries. The core rushing efficiency rate; 4.5+ is solid, 5+ is elite.

TD% — Touchdown rate per carry (TDs ÷ carries × 100) — measures scoring efficiency per touch independent of volume. Red-zone workhorses lead here.

1D — First downs gained on rushing plays.

1D% — First-down conversion rate (first downs ÷ carries × 100) — how often a carry moves the chains. Top RBs convert on 25%+ of attempts.

Fmb — Rushing fumbles lost — the key ball-security stat for running backs. Below 1 per season is elite.

Receiving

Tgt — Targets — how many times the receiver was thrown to, regardless of completion.

Rec — Receptions — catches made.

Yds — Receiving yards.

Postseason Career

6 playoff games

Rushing

Att76Yds365TD2Y/A4.8TD%2.61D141D%18.4

Receiving

Tgt8

College Stats

FloridaCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Florida), but no parsed college box-score table is present in this profile artifact. The section stays here so every profile has a consistent college-stats landing point without fabricating unavailable rows.

Reference Graph

Career teammates and draft class, derived from year-by-year rosters — every name is linked.

Top Teammates

Donovin DariusDB9y Rob MeierDT9y Paul SpicerDE9y Kyle BradyTE8y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Fred inherited the Jacksonville Jaguars RB room from Daimon Shelton (1997–2000), and handed it to Stacey Mack (1999–2002).

Daimon Shelton 1997–2000Fred Taylor 1998–2008Stacey Mack 1999–2002LaBrandon Toefield 2003–2007Maurice Jones-Drew 2006–2013Rashad Jennings

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Statistical + physical similarity across every player in the database, position-relevant (0–100%).

Movementderived from season history

2010final season
Last recorded season with NE
2009team change
Joined NE (from JAX)
1998draft
Drafted by JAX — Round 1, Pick 9

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'1" / 228 lb

Frame

Injury History

12 career games missed (Out)

From nflverse weekly injury reports · coverage begins 2009.

Season	Team	Games Out	Designations
2010	NE	5	W4Out· ToeW6Out· ToeW7Out· ToeW8Out· ToeW9Out· ToeW10Questionable· ToeW11Questionable· Toe

Knox

StatVault's proprietary player intelligence, informed by full career data. How Knox works →

Historical Knox · KV-H

Era-normalized career quality — z-scored against 12-season peers. See all →

peak 83

Season Report Cards· KV-H era-normalized per season

A1998

B+1999

A2000

B+2002

A2003

B+2004

B2005

B+2006

B+2007

C+2008

D2009

C2010

Availability

Era Translator

Rush Yds translated to the 2025NFL — each season's standing among its own-era peers, projected onto 2025's scoring environment. Modern-era (1999+) coverage.

Season	Actual Rush Yds	Rush Yds/G	→ 2025 Rush Yds	→ 2025 /G
1998	1,223	81.5	1,607+384	94.5
1999	732	73.2	1,353+621	79.6
2000	1,363	104.8	1,659+296	97.6
2002	1,314	82.1	1,288-26	75.8
2003	1,572	98.3	1,494-78	87.9
2004	1,224	87.4	1,308+84	76.9
2005	787	71.5	1,094+307	64.4
2006	1,146	76.4	1,118-28	65.8
2007	1,202	80.1	1,192-10	70.1
2008	556	42.8	666+110	39.2
2009	269	44.8	712+443	41.9
2010	155	22.1	410+255	24.1

Data: nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), nflverse:injuries, wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 7/31/2026

Defensive StatsNot available for this player

College StatsCollege attribution is present, but this profile artifact does not yet carry a parsed college stat table.

NFL Combine / Pro DayNot available for this player

Proprietary LayersKV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — era-normalized career rating 0–100 calibrated within position group (1999+ coverage). SIS (Snap Impact Score, 2012+) — per-snap production z-scored within position. VORP — value over replacement player. Durability IQ — games-played percentile adjusted for era.

Pre-1999 players have bio + draft data but counting stats are not available from any freely-licensed source. Players with ★ Career Only see verified career aggregates from nflverse draft_picks.

Amber = this player (normalized to own peak). Indigo = average RBs aging curve. Group peak age: 21. Source: StatVault KV-H era (1999+).

8K career rushing yards

200550 career rushing TDs

2006250 career receptions

200710K career rushing yards

TD — Receiving touchdowns.

Ctch% — Catch rate — receptions ÷ targets × 100. Measures how reliably a receiver turns opportunities into gains. 70%+ is elite.

Y/R — Yards per reception — receiving yards ÷ receptions. Measures big-play ability; 15+ is elite for WRs.

Y/Tgt — Yards per target — receiving yards ÷ targets. The single most complete receiving efficiency metric: accounts for both drops and incomplete targets. Elite receivers post 8+ yards per target.

AirYd/T — Air yards per target — average depth of route at time of target. High values indicate a deep threat role; low values indicate a slot/check-down role.

1D — First downs gained on receiving plays.

Proprietary StatVault Metrics

KV-H (Knox Value-Historical) — Era-normalized career rating 0–100 within position group, calibrated so a 50 = average starter and 90+ = all-time great. Covers 1999–present. Built on a 5-year IQR/robust-std era window.

SIS (Snap Impact Score) — Per-snap production z-scored within position group and era (2012+). Measures how much a player produced per opportunity, not raw volume.

VORP (Value Over Replacement) — Sum of max(0, season KV-H − positional replacement level) across a career. Measures career value above the minimum-roster baseline at each position.

Durability IQ — 0–100 score reflecting how many games a player played relative to peers at the same position in the same era. Adjusts for injury-shortened seasons.

The room is reconstructed from arrival order among durable members (≥4 seasons with the club) at the player’s position group — a lineage by arrival, not a week-by-week depth chart. Distinct from the league-wide positional GOAT torch.

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W12Questionable· Toe

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 13 seasons.

19982010

1999 · cause not documented · 63%2001 · cause not documented · 13%2005 · cause not documented · 69%2009 · Ankle · 38%2010 · Toe · 44%

Durability IQ

Composite score across availability, IR frequency, and injury severity. See all →

Typical

Canton Monitor · HOF

Calibrated Hall-of-Fame probability — fit against actual enshrinement. See all →

11%

Longshot

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 58%Longevity 29.1%Pro Bowls 6.5%All-Time Ranks 6.5%

Monitor score 46.4 · components sum to the score (All-Pro ×12 · Pro Bowl ×3 · League Lead ×4 · ranks/era/longevity weighted).

Career Fingerprint

Statistical profile across 5 dimensions

Overall

Longevity79

Peak83

Accolades3

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

Wasted Talent#73 most affected

This player carries the statistical signature of a Hall-of-Fame candidate whose career was cut short by injury or circumstance. The gap between their ceiling and actual production is quantified below.

HOF Probability

1080%

longshot

Durability IQ

Typical

Availability Rate

7400%

of games played vs eligible

IR / Lost Seasons

seasons lost to injury

Fred Taylor

Team Carrier Evidence

All-Time Standing

Career Aging Trajectory

From Scrimmage · Career

Postseason Career

Rushing

Receiving

College Stats

Reference Graph

Top Teammates

Franchise Succession

Similar Players

Movementderived from season history

Athletic & Unique Profile

Injury History

Knox

Era Translator

1998 Draft Class· this player went #9