Could Jamin Davis be in for a big third year in the NFL – and does he need it?
The Athletic looked at the first round of the 2021 Draft earlier this week, and which players may get their fifth-year options picked up at the end of this season – and Jamin Davis was in Tier 4, where the players needed to “pick it up a little bit” to get that fifth year.
How do Grant & Danny feel about that?
“His rookie year was ugly, and he didn’t start a whole lot, but his jump from Year 1 to Year 2 was real,” Grant said, before reciting his jump in stats. “There was real growth, and while I would still say drafting him 19th overall is an L for a first-round pick, but you can’t tell me you look at him and don’t see a decent linebacker – so that’s growth.”
“Sure, that assessment is right on. It was wrong to draft him there then, and it is now – but he wasn’t very good as a rookie, and became a regular, run-of-the-mill NFL linebacker last year,” Danny replied. “The world stopped spinning as fast for him last year, so yeah, you have an NFL linebacker.”
Grant then went through the tiers in the article, and the guys agreed Davis is not a franchise cornerstone (Tier 1), a plus starter/high-ceiling player (Tier 2), or even necessarily a solid starter/high-floor player (Tier 3) – but they do think Davis’ situation isn’t as severe as “something to prove/long-term project” and surely isn’t in “last chance” territory of Tier 5.
“Tier 4 guy, could be a Tier 3 guy if you want to be optimistic,” Danny said. “I don’t think Jamin Davis is that special, even if he got 100 tackles. Jon Bostic had 105 tackles one year. What the Commanders have done well is devalue the linebacker position; unless you have someone so special you just can’t turn him down, you plug and play.”
Listen to their entire conversation about Davis above!
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