Jamin Davis had impressive numbers Wednesday at UK's Pro Day. (UK Athletics Photo)
With his meteoric rise in NFL mock drafts, I wondered if Kentucky linebacker Jamin Davis would risk going through all the drills at UK’s Pro Day Wednesday knowing all 32 NFL teams would have representatives there to watch him.
“I am planning on doing anything and everything they ask me to do,” Davis said Tuesday when I asked him what his Pro Day plans were. “I look at it as another opportunity to show all I can do.”
That’s just what he did, too.
He had a 42-inch vertical jump, a total equal to the high mark any linebacker had at last year’s NFL Combine and the second-highest vertical leap any player had at the 2020 combine.
Davis also ran the 40-yard dash in 4.41 seconds. That would have been the second-best time for any linebacker at the 2020 combine and one of the top 15 overall times. Some scouts had him in 4.37 seconds on his second run. That would have been a top-five time in 2020.
The linebacker wasn’t finished. His 132-inch broad jump would have been another top 15 mark at the 2020 combine. He also did 21 reps on the 225-pound bench press.
Davis was measured at 6-3, 234 pounds with a wingspan of almost 80 inches. His arms were measured at 33 inches.
Not bad for a player who said he probably weighed “190 pounds soaking wet” when he got to UK from Georgia.
Kentucky coach Mark Stoops certainly was impressed and compared Davis to former UK linebacker Josh Allen, a top 10 pick two years ago of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
“I think physically you see a guy that came in with a good frame on him. To put on that kind of weight, I don’t know what he was exactly, I’m guessing about 190 pounds, give or take a couple biscuits. Now he’s 235 of solid muscle, ripped up, jumping out of the gym and running great numbers,” Stoops said after the Pro Day workouts.
“That’s from a lot of years of hard work and our team putting him in a position to really train at a high level and develop. Physically his body in the way he transformed was much like a Josh Allen, coming in with a lanky frame and putting on all that muscle. You can’t even really call it weight because there’s not an ounce of fat on that guy.”
Davis said Tuesday he had already spoken to almost every NFL team. If one had missed him, he likely will hear from those teams now after his Pro Day workout probably made him a lot of dollars on draft day.
“I tell all of them I am a guy who will step in and play anywhere. I would play center,” Davis said.
