"There were so many times I'd just stand back there, and I had the best seat in the house to watch him run.... Personally, I think he should be in the Hall of Fame. I think if you look at the years that he carried the ball, it's almost like an Earl Campbell. The number of touches that he had for a four-, five-year period, if you take those and spread them out, it pretty much equals a 10- to 11-year career. I mean, we used him to death, and he took a heck of a beating for those four, five years when we wanted to get the ball in his hands."
--John Elway

"In real life, Terrell Davis drove a lot of men and women in a lot of NFL cities to drink. It is not believed, though, that he drove any of them to death. Close, maybe."
--Woody Paige, Denver Post

#30 Terrell Davis: Super Bowl XXXII MVP & 1998 League MVP

The Best Pick of 1995:
"There's no question he was the best player in the game."--Shannon Sharpe

After years of having a lackluster rushing attack, the Broncos needed an exceptional running back to help relieve the pressure on John Elway and get Denver back to the Super Bowl. For these reasons, in the 1995 college draft, the Broncos selected Terrell Davis out of Georgia with the 196th overall pick. Davis had an unremarkable college career that was plagued by the cruelty of Georgia’s Coach Goff and a series of exacerbated injuries. At the time, little did anyone in the NFL realize the complete football player the Broncos’ Davis would become as he continued to set league records because of his on-field vision, strength, determination, and sense of decorum.

Rushing for 157 yards on 30 carries and scoring three touchdowns, Davis earned Most Valuable Player honors in the Broncos’ 31-24 victory over Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII. His three rushing TDs tied a Super Bowl record for most points scored and most touchdowns scored in a single game. He also set a Super Bowl record with three rushing touchdowns in a single game. Most remarkable about his MVP performance is the fact that he missed the entire second quarter because of a migraine headache. He returned to start the second half and helped Denver control the ball and the clock, scoring Denver’s final winning points on a one-yard touchdown run with only 1:45 remaining.

In 1998, Davis earned the AP NFL Most Valuable Player Award--only the second Bronco, after John Elway in 1987, to claim this honor. The award was won in direct connection with his first NFL rushing title: 2,008 yards and 21 touchdowns on 392 carries (5.1). This accomplishment made him just the fourth player in league history to top the 2,000-yard rushing mark in a single season--third-best all-time behind Eric Dickerson (1984) and Barry Sanders (1997). In just 61 career games, he amassed 6,413 yards. For that span of his career, he had the best per-game rushing average in NFL history at 105.1 yards per game, bettering the league's previous best average--Jim Brown’s 104.3 per game.

Hall of Fame?
1999-2001 and Beyond
"He had a better career than [Hall of Famer Gale] Sayers did, but he is not held in the same regard. Is that fair to Davis?"--Dan Patrick, ESPN

After his MVP season in 1998, Davis tore the ACL in his right knee in the fourth game of the 1999 season. From that time onward, T.D. battled constant frustration with injuries in both his legs. When he was healthy, however, he still made opponent's defenses fall back on their heels. His presence alone was a force to contend with as he continued to run up 100-yard performances a number of times over the final three years of his career. In fact, while he was limited to only eight games in his last season, T.D. still led all Broncos running backs with 701 rushing yards on 167 carries.