A year changes a lot. In 2021, Mike Davis was basically the only player the team gave a two-year contract to, and it wasn’t hard to understand why after he had a productive season filling in for an injured Christian McCaffrey in Carolina.
Davis struggled in a struggling Falcons offense, with Cordarrelle Patterson outshining him as a runner, running lanes didn’t materialize and he wound up averaging fewer yards before contact than just 11 other backs, and rare late season fumbling issues cropping up. Atlanta decided to add talent to the running back room this offseason, and now Davis is headed elsewhere.