Stephen Davis ranks in the all-time elite tier for running backs — a career that places Davis in the top 10% of all players at the position. The Knox value model assigns Davis a career score of 76, reflecting sustained impact that most players at the position never approach.

On the boards· Appears on 2 boards

Streaks3 straight · 1,000 rushing yards · 1999–01

RBSTL#48ACT

Stephen Davis

3× Pro BowlTop 6% all-time RBsIron Man🏆 Clutch · +19% playoffs 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1999

Height6'0"

Weight

Career Value · VORP

186 career value over replacement — #446 all-time of 4,695. 18.6/season above a replacement-level RB.

Career Profile

Led league 1×7 top-10

Draft OutcomeSteal ↑

Pick #102 (Rd 4) · WAS · 1996 · +40.3 vs expected KV-H

76actual

35.7 expected · Δ+40.3

💔+38.9 stolen VORP·2.09 szns lost

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All-Time Standing

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

Solid

of 100

Reached 44% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader — a solid all-time profile at the position.

44% of the all-time Rushing Yards leader44

2 categories ≥25% of the all-time leader67

A 0–100 scale where 100 = matched the all-time leader at 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

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.

Where this data comes from

Modern-era stats (1999+) come from nflverse's open data releases. Pre-1999 seasons are backfilled additively from Wikipedia and NFL.com's own official season pages — never from rights-restricted sources.

nflverse — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution
NFL.com — Official league site; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Career Aging Trajectory

vs. position group average · KV-H basis

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

Playoff vs Regular Season

🏆 Playoff Performer

Yards / Carry: 4.1 regular season → 4.9 playoffs (2 playoff seasons)

+19%

vs reg season

From Scrimmage · Career

Scrimmage Yds

9,120

8,023 rush · 1,097 recv

Total TDs

65 rush · 2 recv

Total Touches

2,075

1,936 carries · 139 rec

Yds / Touch

4.4

rushing + receiving

Career Milestones8

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

19991K career rushing yards
20003K career rushing yards
200025 career rushing TDs
20025K career rushing yards
2002100 career receptions
200350 career rushing TDs

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

Att95Yds469TD3Y/A4.9TD%3.21D161D%16.8

Receiving

Tgt5

College Stats

AuburnCollege listed; stat table pending import

College stats are not imported for this profile yet.

StatVault has the verified college attribution (Auburn), 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

Darrell GreenCB7y Michael WestbrookWR6y Dan WilkinsonDT5y Kenard LangDE5y

Franchise Succession

the room, before and after

Stephen inherited the Washington Commanders RB room from Terry Allen (1995–1998), and holds it as the most recent the corpus records.

Cliff Battles 1932–1937Bill Dudley 1950–1953John Riggins 1976–1985Clarence Harmon 1977–1982Joe Washington 1981–1984Kelvin Bryant 1986–1990

Similar Players

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

Movementderived from season history

2006team change
Joined STL (from CAR)
2006final season
Last recorded season with STL
2003team change
Joined CAR (from WAS)
1996draft
Drafted by WAS — Round 4, Pick 102

Athletic & Unique Profile

verified measurements and curated source-tagged facts

6'0" / 230 lb

Frame

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 10-season peers. See all →

peak 83

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

C+1996

B1997

C+1998

A1999

A2000

A2001

B2002

A2003

B2005

C+2006

Availability

Career durability — games played vs. scheduled, across 11 seasons.

81%

Era Translator

Rush Yds translated to the 2025 NFL — 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
1996	139	11.6	500+361	29.4
1997	567	40.5	988+421	58.1
1998	109	6.8	377+268	22.2
1999	1,405	100.4	1,815+410	106.8
2000	1,292	86.1	1,447+155	85.1
2001	1,432	89.5	1,460+28	85.9
2002	820	68.3	1,103+283	64.9
2003	1,444	103.1	1,567+123	92.2
2005	546	42	694+148	40.8
2006	177	12.6	256+79	15.1

Data: nflverse:draft_picks, nflverse:players, nflverse:player_stats, nflverse:player_stats_def, nflverse:advanced-epa (CC-BY 4.0), wikipedia:season-stats (CC-BY-SA, facts-only), nfl.com:official-stats (facts-only reference) · multi-source verified via the StatVault Oracle · updated 8/31/2026

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.

Canton Monitor · HOF

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

12%

Longshot

What carries the case

Era Quality (KV-H) 51.4%Pro Bowls 18.2%Longevity 18.2%League Leads 8.1%All-Time Ranks 4%

Monitor score 49.4 · 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

Longevity81

Peak83

Accolades11

Consistency50

Per-Snap50

On the boards· Appears on 2 boards

Stephen Davis

All-Time Standing

Where this data comes from

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

Knox

Era Translator

1996 Draft Class· this player went #102

Career Geography