← 1986 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R2 · #41 OVERALL · RB

Kenneth Davis

Drafted by GB · GM Forrest Gregg · TCU

All NFL teams

Full-career context

These totals follow Kenneth Davis across every NFL team. Draft credit is separated below for each team that selected him.

Games played131
Games started23
Weighted career AV30
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons9

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1986 · Round 2 · #41

GB draft credit

GM Forrest Gregg

Team games35
Team starts21
On-team AV8
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Terrible-1.99 contribution20th of 20 picks for this GM

Games: direct team-season record. Starts: direct team-season record.

Long-career hit

Kenneth Davis became a 9-season, 131-game NFL player after going #41. The retained-value model still ranks him 20th of 20 for Forrest Gregg because GB only got 35 of those games.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is -1.99. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Forrest Gregg's leaderboard composite θ.

Full-career context prevents this from being labeled as a bad talent pick: the negative model score is about retained team value, not whether the draft identified an NFL-caliber player.

The walkthrough below shows which bucket carried the pick: playing time, value quality, or league honors.

Opportunity
Did he earn the field?
Games played
35
on drafting team · 131 full-career
Games started
21
on drafting team · 23 full-career
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
8
modeled; full weighted AV 30
AV / 1k snaps
snap-era only
AV-rate z
position-year adjusted quality
Recognition
Did the league notice?
Pro Bowls
0
all on drafting team
AP1 All-Pro
0 AP1
all on drafting team · AP2 context 0
All-Decade
0
context only

Did this pick move Forrest Gregg's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Forrest Gregg pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Kenneth Davis totals -1.99. The second chart breaks that same contribution into the seasons when the evidence arrived. Opportunity and quality can move separately, which keeps high-snap, low-AV profiles from looking cleaner than they are.

Aggregate contribution by player

-10+1+2+3125. Noble#125 · Brian Noble · aggregate +3.04Noble +3.084. Harris#84 · Tim Harris · aggregate +2.62Harris +2.6153. Wright#153 · Randy Wright · aggregate +1.6171. Moran#71 · Rich Moran · aggregate +1.38126. Flynn#126 · Tom Flynn · aggregate +1.2799. Dorsey#99 · John Dorsey · aggregate +0.7772. Humphrey#72 · Donnie Humphrey · aggregate +0.72143. Dent#143 · Burnell Dent · aggregate +0.50182. Ellerson#182 · Gary Ellerson · aggregate +0.32181. Jones#181 · Daryll Jones · aggregate +0.13155. Lewis#155 · Mark Lewis · aggregate -0.00183. Berry#183 · Ed Berry · aggregate -0.0112. Carreker#12 · Alphonso Carreker · aggregate -0.1898. Stanley#98 · Walter Stanley · aggregate -0.30125. Koart#125 · Matt Koart · aggregate -0.3372. Bosco#72 · Robbie Bosco · aggregate -0.45171. Wilson#171 · Eric Wilson · aggregate -0.517. Ruettgers#7 · Ken Ruettgers · aggregate -0.7198. Knight#98 · Dan Knight · aggregate -0.8741. Davis#41 · Kenneth Davis · aggregate -1.99Davis -2.0

Incremental contribution by season

-5-4-3-2-10+1+2+3+41984 · Daryll Jones · incremental +0.141984 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.211984 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.231984 · Donnie Humphrey · incremental +0.521984 · Tom Flynn · incremental +0.811984 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental -0.471985 · Daryll Jones · incremental +0.031985 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.041985 · Mark Lewis · incremental +0.071985 · Gary Ellerson · incremental +0.141985 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.221985 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.271985 · Donnie Humphrey · incremental +0.301985 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.421985 · Tom Flynn · incremental +0.741985 · Rich Moran · incremental -0.041985 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.201985 · Eric Wilson · incremental -0.871985 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental -4.331986 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.071986 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.081986 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.131986 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.171986 · Tom Flynn · incremental +0.271986 · Donnie Humphrey · incremental +0.291986 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301986 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.341986 · Gary Ellerson · incremental +0.391986 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.651986 · Randy Wright · incremental +1.161986 · Ed Berry · incremental -0.051986 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.091986 · Mark Lewis · incremental -0.131986 · Matt Koart · incremental -0.611986 · Robbie Bosco · incremental -0.731986 · Dan Knight · incremental -1.411986 · Kenneth Davis · incremental -1.731987 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.041987 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.131987 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.191987 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.221987 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.241987 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.331987 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.531987 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.581987 · Mark Lewis · incremental -0.061987 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.141987 · Kenneth Davis · incremental -0.821988 · Alphonso Carreker · incremental +0.041988 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.071988 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.271988 · John Dorsey · incremental +0.331988 · Randy Wright · incremental +0.421988 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.431988 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.431988 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.491988 · Walter Stanley · incremental -0.081988 · Kenneth Davis · incremental -0.541989 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.201989 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301989 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.461989 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.671989 · Tim Harris · incremental +3.171990 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.161990 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.181990 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.201990 · Tim Harris · incremental +0.321990 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.611991 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.081991 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.171991 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.451991 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.701992 · Burnell Dent · incremental +0.141992 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.231992 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301992 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.451993 · Brian Noble · incremental +0.091993 · Rich Moran · incremental +0.091993 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.301994 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.311995 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.291996 · Ken Ruettgers · incremental +0.04Ruettgers -4.3Davis -1.7Davis -0.8Davis -0.5Harris +3.219846 players198513 players198618 players198711 players198810 players19895 players19905 players19914 players19924 players19933 players19941 player19951 player19961 player
Above expectationBelow expectationKenneth DavisGM total +7.0Kenneth Davis by season -3.1

How much retained production did Kenneth Davis return vs. his slot?

Each mark below is one player's model value above slot. Light gray marks are slot-similar peers: RBs drafted within ±5 picks of Kenneth Davis since 2010 (13 players).The score is the retained production/value bucket from the pick-residual model: on-team AV plus AV-rate quality, adjusted for draft slot, position, and era. Opportunity snaps and league honors are excluded.

-0.50+0.5+1Model value above slot41. TaylorJonathan Taylor · model value +1.545. HenryDerrick Henry · model value +1.341. CookDalvin Cook · model value +141. IIIKenneth Walker III · model value +0.738. HendersonTreVeyon Henderson · model value +0.536. HallBreece Hall · model value +0.538. IIRonald Jones II · model value +0.237. BernardGiovani Bernard · model value -0.143. JohnsonKerryon Johnson · model value -0.236. YeldonT.J. Yeldon · model value -0.236. JudkinsQuinshon Judkins · model value -0.246. BrooksJonathon Brooks · model value -0.338. WilliamsRyan Williams · model value -0.541. DavisKenneth Davis · model value -0.9-0.9
Kenneth DavisSlot-similar peers (13)

Cumulative value over time

Year-by-year running totals since draft. Left axis = games started. Right axis = honors (Pro Bowl / AP1 / AP2). Pre-2013 picks have no games-started line because that comes from per-game snap counts (not available for older players). Honors extend back to 1980.

'86'88'90'92'940612172301Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (9 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1986GB1664
1987GB1083
1988GB971
1989BUF1602
1990BUF1604
1991BUF1617
1992BUF1606
1993BUF1604
1994BUF1614

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