Mike Davis Fantasy Football Profile, News and Stats

Mike Davis
RB
, Atlanta Falcons

Age: 28
Weight: 217 lbs
Height: 5' 9"

ADP: 57
Depth Chart Ranking: 1

Pts	RuYds	RuTD	Rec	RecYds
148	642	6	59	373

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Draft note

by John Paulsen

The Falcons led the league in vacated touches per game (21.6) and all they did to address the running back position is sign Davis and a 183-pound undrafted free agent, Javian Hawkins. Davis’s career YPC (3.7) is pretty ugly, but digging deeper into his 2020 season, there are reasons to like his upside. He was tied for 12th in yards after contact per attempt and led the league in broken tackles per rush attempt. He was also fourth among running backs in catches (59) and was fifth among backs in broken tackles per reception. Advanced stats courtesy of Pro Football Reference.

Latest news

Falcons sign RB Mike Davis to two-year deal

Ian Rapoport

Mar 23 · 8:59 AM EDT

Source: #Panthers RB Mike Davis to the #Falcons on a 2 year deal worth $5.5M with $3M fully guaranteed in Year 1, source says.

Fantasy Impact:

Among the free agent running backs listed here, the 28-year-old Davis had the third-highest points per game last season, ahead of Kenyan Drake, James Conner and Leonard Fournette. Todd Gurley and Brian Hill are both free agents as well, so Davis likely sits atop a Falcons' depth chart that includes Ito Smith, Qadree Ollison and Tony Brooks-James. Depending on what the Falcons do in the draft, this could be a very underrated signing given Davis' production last season (1,015 total yards and eight touchdowns), his versatility (59 catches), and new HC Arthur Smith's history of a strong running game while calling plays for the Titans. Davis is no Derrick Henry, however, and the Falcons are very much a threat to draft a running back, so owners shouldn't get too excited just yet. At worst, Davis will be a Zero RB target as a backup to a talented rookie. At best, he'll start for the Falcons in 2021 and should go off the board in the fifth round. In the 19 games since the 2017 season where Davis has seen at least 10 carries, he has averaged 17.9 touches for 80 total yards and 0.63 touchdowns. Those would have been solid RB2 numbers in 2020.

Scouting report

by Bill Riccette

· Jul 18 · 10:33 AM EDT

ATL RB Mike Davis - 2021 Fantasy Football Outlook

Fantasy Upside

Mike Davis filled in as best he could for an injured Christian McCaffrey in 2020. He signed with the Falcons as a free agent in 2021 and has almost no competition for touches in Atlanta's backfield. Todd Gurley and Brian Hill are gone and the Falcons didn't even address the position in the draft. Qadree Ollison and Javian Hawkins will be worked in as well, but this backfield belongs to Davis.

Fantasy Downside

Davis doesn't have the explosiveness of other running backs and does have just a 3.7 career YPC heading into his age-28 season. Part of that is it took him some time to really get going, as last season was the best of his career and he has just two seasons with more than 300 rushing yards and 200 receiving yards. But he has a chance to blow those numbers out of the water in 2021.

2021 Bottom Line

Davis could end up being one of the better bargains in 2021, with a fifth-round ADP and RB1 upside. Even at age 28, he has little mileage on his legs, with just 412 career carries. Davis could quietly be one of the better backs in 2021.

2021 Strength of Schedule - ATL

W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	W10	W11	W12	W13	W14	W15	W16	W17
9 PHI	1 @TB	18 @NYG	7 WAS	14 NYJ	BYE	11 @MIA	15 CAR	2 @NO	26 @DAL	21 NE	29 @JAX	1 TB	15 @CAR	8 @SF	32 DET	20 @BUF

Schedule difficulty based on schedule-adjusted, positional defensive ranking. Top DEF = 1, bottom DEF = 32.

Game Stats


Week	Opp	RuAtt	RuYds	RuTD	Fum	YPC	Rec	RecYds	RecTD	Tgts	YPR	STD	PPR	Snaps	%
1	LV	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0	3/67	4.5%
2	@TB	1	1	0	0	1.00	8	74	0	8	9.25	7.5	15.5	24/73	32.9%
3	@LAC	13	46	0	0	3.54	8	45	1	9	5.62	15.1	23.1	39/51	76.5%
4	ARI	16	84	1	0	5.25	5	27	0	6	5.40	17.1	22.1	55/77	71.4%
5	@ATL	16	89	0	0	5.56	9	60	1	10	6.67	20.9	29.9	54/65	83.1%
6	CHI	18	52	1	1	2.89	2	3	0	3	1.50	9.5	11.5	60/68	88.2%
7	@NO	7	12	0	0	1.71	5	24	0	5	4.80	3.6	8.6	33/46	71.7%
8	ATL	13	66	0	0	5.08	1	11	0	2	11.00	7.7	8.7	46/54	85.2%
9	@KC	1	3	0	0	3.00	5	34	0	6	6.80	3.7	8.7	26/83	31.3%
10	TB	7	32	0	0	4.57	4	12	0	5	3.00	4.4	8.4	25/48	52.1%
11	DET	19	64	1	0	3.37	2	15	0	2	7.50	13.9	15.9	52/71	73.2%
12	@MIN	15	55	0	0	3.67	3	24	0	6	8.00	7.9	10.9	37/65	56.9%
13	BYE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	DEN	11	51	2	0	4.64	5	42	0	6	8.40	21.3	26.3	49/67	73.1%
15	@GB	14	59	0	0	4.21	2	2	0	2	1.00	6.1	8.1	37/69	53.6%
16	@WAS	14	28	1	0	2.00	0	0	0	0	0.00	8.8	8.8	41/68	60.3%
17	NO	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Per game		11.00	42.80	0.40	0.07	3.89	3.93	24.87	0.13	4.67	6.32	9.83	13.77	38.73/64.80	60.94%
Totals		165	642	6	1	3.89	59	373	2	70	6.32	147.5	206.5	581/972	60.94%