Georgia Bulldogs DT Davis threw down one of the wildest performances at the NFL scouting combine on Saturday when he clocked in at 4.82 seconds. That number would later be corrected to 4.78 seconds, cementing Davis’ reputation as arguably the preeminent physical freak of this year’s NFL draft class.
Davis, who is 6-foot-6⅜, might not have to actually run a 40-yard sprint very often in an NFL game, but he ran it like few others of his size ever have at the combine.
The combine performance backs up a college career that will go down in Georgia history as an all-timer. In Davis’ senior year, he was a unanimous All-American and winner of the Chuck Bednarik Award for college football’s top defensive player and the Outland Trophy for college football’s top interior lineman. Most importantly, he held a best-in-the-nation Georgia defense to the program’s first national title in four decades.
