Named senior vice president of ESPN Audio in 2007, Davenport joined the network in 1985 as an associate producer. A graduate of Hesperia High School and Western Michigan University, he previously worked as a production assistant at ABC Sports.

An all-around athlete at Hesperia, Davenport played baseball in the spring and helped the Panthers to a second-place finish in the MHSAA Class D Track & Field championships in 1973. As a high jumper, he established a new school record of 6-feet-4-inches as a senior. An All-Conference honorable mention on the basketball court, it was on the gridiron that Davenport excelled. He earned first-team All-State honors as a running back as a senior in the fall of 1974 as Hesperia finished the season as Co-Champions of the Newaygo County Athletic Association.

Following graduation, Davenport enrolled at Western, where he played defensively for coach Elliot Uzelac from 1975 to 1979. A communications major, he was named as an account executive with WQLR-FM in Kalamazoo upon graduating, then was hired by ABC Sports in 1982 as a production assistant assigned to Major League Baseball, college football, Wide World of Sports and boxing before the move to ESPN. A two-time Emmy winner for his work on the “1st and 10 line” used in football broadcasts, he has served as a senior vice president for ESPN Audio and ESPN’s Talent Office.