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HEIGHT: 6’1″
WEIGHT: 302
HAND: 9 1/2″
ARM: 33 5’8″
40-YARD DASH: DNP
3-CONE: DNP
SHUTTLE: DNP
VERTICAL: DNP
BROAD: DNP
POSITIVES
— Short, stocky construct helps him exhaust contact and anchor within the streak recreation.
— Gigantic first step. Explodes off the snap.
— Enticing quickness throughout the line of scrimmage. Can fire off into gaps with relative ease.
— Above-average agility and lope when working in home. Finishes performs.
— Flashes of immense upper-physique strength and vitality in his fingers.
NEGATIVES
— Foot velocity slows down when engaged. Contaminated ends up out of whack.
— Plays sawed-off despite correct size. Consistently leaning and chest-bumping.
— Hand usage wants work, each versus the streak and bolt. Would relieve liberate his strength.
— Now not an effective 1-on-1 bolt-rusher at this stage.
2021 STATISTICS
5 G, 17 TOT, 4.5 TFL, 1 SK
NOTES
— 3-star LB recruit in 2017. Listed at 235 kilos coming out of highschool.
— Started the 2019 and 2021 seasons. Opted out of the 2020 season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
— Missed the second half of of the 2021 season with an ACL smash.
OVERALL
Kalia Davis is a wrecking-ball-sized prospect with the vitality and explosiveness to be an fascinating developmental part.
Davis performs precisely to the wrecking ball style that his short, spherical physique suggests. He flies off the ball with a commanding first step, allowing him either to shoot into adjacent gaps or lift the wrestle to offensive linemen straight away. When paired alongside with his flashes of destructive upper-physique strength, Davis has moments the set he entirely overwhelms offensive linemen upon engagement and knocks them into the backfield. From there, he usually has the lope skills in home to attain lend a hand off blocks and build performs.
Nevertheless, Davis quiet has a suggestions to lope to conclude his recreation. Enticing now, he struggles in opposition to the streak when asked to discontinue something else but fire off the ball and manufacture a large number. Despite a thick physique and correct strength, Davis can wrestle to anchor within the streak recreation on legend of a dreadful execrable. Likewise, when he has to work throughout the line of scrimmage whereas engaged with a blocker, he tends to lope away his feet at the lend a hand of him and dwell wide awake off-steadiness or stuck at the lend a hand of the bolt alongside with the circulation of the play. Pair all of that with inconsistent hand usage, particularly disorders with leaning and chest-bumping into blockers, and the tip result’s a prospect who will want a couple of years of work.
Davis has bolt-speeding instruments, but he equally wants to kind his skills. His vitality and respectable quickness give him the flexibility to utter with raw athleticism at cases, but he lacks a creative capability to bolt-speeding at this stage. Davis will largely be a pocket-pusher early on whereas he develops a bigger bolt-speeding thought.
Davis is a correct “guardrails” kind of defensive kind out prospect. Precise let him free in one direction off the snap and enable his explosiveness to muck things up for the offense. With that said, Davis’ approach is a piece in growth, and he wants to search out a more constant anchor sooner than blossoming right into a full-time starter. He on the total is a quality rotational participant and short-yardage defensive weapon straight away whereas setting up the abilities to develop right into a full-time starter.
GRADE: 6.3 (Excessive-stage Developmental Prospect – Fifth Round)
PRO COMPARISON: Deadrin Senat
Written by B/R NFL Scout Derrik Klassen
