← 1997 DRAFT PLAYER PROFILE R3 · #62 OVERALL · RB

Troy Davis

Drafted by NO · GM Mike Ditka · Iowa St.

All NFL teams

Full-career context

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

Games played46
Games started11
Weighted career AV4
Pro Bowls0
AP1 All-Pro0
Career seasons3

Accountability by draft event

What each drafting team received

1997 · Round 3 · #62

NO draft credit

GM Mike Ditka

Team games46
Team starts11
On-team AV4
On-team PB / AP10 / 0
Good+0.07 contribution6th of 16 picks for this GM

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

A Good pick

Troy Davis was Mike Ditka's 6th-best of 16 picks across his career.

His retained-value contribution score (opportunity plus quality plus recognition, with related outcomes collapsed inside each bucket) is +0.07. This is a per-pick accountability metric, separate from Mike Ditka's leaderboard composite θ.

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

Opportunity
Did he earn the field?
Games played
46
on drafting team
Games started
11
on drafting team
Snap-z
0.0
0 modeled seasons
Quality
Was that time valuable?
On-team AV
4
modeled; full weighted AV 4
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 Mike Ditka's grade?

The first chart removes the time axis: every Mike Ditka pick is sorted by retained contribution across opportunity, quality, and recognition. Troy Davis totals +0.07. 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

-6-5-4-3-2-10+1116. Poole#116 · Keith Poole · aggregate +1.1197. Weary#97 · Fred Weary · aggregate +0.76161. Bordano#161 · Chris Bordano · aggregate +0.557. Turley#7 · Kyle Turley · aggregate +0.1133. Kelly#33 · Rob Kelly · aggregate +0.0862. Davis#62 · Troy Davis · aggregate +0.07Davis +0.199. Wuerffel#99 · Danny Wuerffel · aggregate +0.00132. Perry#132 · Wilmont Perry · aggregate -0.02165. Savoie#165 · Nick Savoie · aggregate -0.0339. Tomich#39 · Jared Tomich · aggregate -0.04204. McCullough#204 · Andy McCullough · aggregate -0.0899. Pittman#99 · Julian Pittman · aggregate -0.43239. Warner#239 · Ron Warner · aggregate -0.6440. Cleeland#40 · Cam Cleeland · aggregate -0.9110. Naeole#10 · Chris Naeole · aggregate -2.61Naeole -2.65. Williams#5 · Ricky Williams · aggregate -6.55Williams -6.5

Incremental contribution by season

-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-10+1+21997 · Jared Tomich · incremental +0.011997 · Troy Davis · incremental +0.031997 · Rob Kelly · incremental +0.051997 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.061997 · Danny Wuerffel · incremental -0.021997 · Nick Savoie · incremental -0.261997 · Chris Naeole · incremental -2.081998 · Danny Wuerffel · incremental +0.001998 · Rob Kelly · incremental +0.091998 · Troy Davis · incremental +0.101998 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.171998 · Chris Bordano · incremental +0.361998 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.451998 · Wilmont Perry · incremental -0.051998 · Jared Tomich · incremental -0.051998 · Andy McCullough · incremental -0.191998 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.511998 · Julian Pittman · incremental -0.761998 · Cam Cleeland · incremental -0.871998 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.951998 · Ron Warner · incremental -1.071999 · Danny Wuerffel · incremental +0.001999 · Troy Davis · incremental +0.121999 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.441999 · Chris Bordano · incremental +0.531999 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.781999 · Rob Kelly · incremental -0.001999 · Wilmont Perry · incremental -0.001999 · Jared Tomich · incremental -0.021999 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.041999 · Cam Cleeland · incremental -0.321999 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.491999 · Ricky Williams · incremental -7.882000 · Jared Tomich · incremental +0.092000 · Rob Kelly · incremental +0.122000 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.412000 · Keith Poole · incremental +0.422000 · Kyle Turley · incremental +1.422000 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.542000 · Ricky Williams · incremental -1.472001 · Fred Weary · incremental +0.192001 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.042001 · Cam Cleeland · incremental -0.242001 · Chris Naeole · incremental -0.582001 · Ricky Williams · incremental -2.162002 · Kyle Turley · incremental -0.04Davis +0.0Naeole -2.1Davis +0.1Davis +0.1Williams -7.9Williams -2.219977 players199814 players199912 players20007 players20015 players20021 player
Above expectationBelow expectationTroy DavisGM total -8.6Troy Davis by season +0.3

How much retained production did Troy 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 Troy Davis since 2010 (17 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+0.5+1+1.5+2Model value above slot63. CookJames Cook · model value +2.1+2.167. KamaraAlvin Kamara · model value +1.961. LacyEddie Lacy · model value +1.467. HillmanRonnie Hillman · model value +0.362. DillonAJ Dillon · model value +0.366. GibsonAntonio Gibson · model value +0.258. TateBen Tate · model value +0.160. HarveyRJ Harvey · model value +0.158. BallMontee Ball · model value -0.162. MichaelChristine Michael · model value -0.162. DavisTroy Davis · model value -0.1-0.166. BensonTrey Benson · model value -0.157. LeshoureMikel Leshoure · model value -0.259. HardestyMontario Hardesty · model value -0.262. ThomasDaniel Thomas · model value -0.361. JamesLaMichael James · model value -0.357. HydeCarlos Hyde · model value -0.459. GuiceDerrius Guice · model value -0.5
Troy DavisSlot-similar peers (17)

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.

'98'00'0103681101Cumulative GSHonors count
Games started (cumulative) Pro Bowls AP1 All-Pro AP2 All-Pro

Full-career season history (5 scored seasons)

YearTeamGPGSSnapsSnap-zAVAV/snapPBAP1AP2
1997NO1672
1998NO1421
1999NO1621
2000000
2001000

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