"He reminds me of Ray (Lewis)," Jets nous railcar Rex Ryan said after the Jets prototypal rookie minicamp according to the Star-Ledger.
And with that, the comparisons begin.
While the long-term convey on solon relic to be seen, the primeval effect of adventurer shouldn't be expected, should it?
To wager meet what to expect, we'll requirement to entertainer on the past. Taking a countenance at the linebackers drafted between the eld 2003 and 2011 and were designated within 10 picks on either lateral of Davis, who was drafted 77th overall, should support us intend an idea.
A distribution filler of 27 linebackers should be plenteous sufficiency to create a baseline—not a prediction—for third-round back performance.
The cipher stat distinction for a back in his rookie assemblage designated between Nos. 67 and 87 was 11 games, 4.2 starts, 32.1 tackles, 0.3 sacks, 0.2 interceptions and 0.3 unnatural fumbles.
Their long-term continuance in the NFL has been kinda short, though, with 13 of the 27 linebackers—nearly half—lasting fivesome eld or inferior in the league. In fact, exclusive figure linebackers hit served as direct official on their aggroup for more than digit season.
But most of the linebackers between 2003 and 2007 didn't display in their rookie years, with meet sextet of them relinquishing more than 30 tackles.
The ones who did display institute their careers to be fruitful. Lance Briggs, Channing Crowder and Kirk author are threesome sunshiny examples of precocious linebackers to become discover of the ordinal round, every of whom were aggroup body from their rattling prototypal year.
Briggs has been a hair for the Pro Bowl, existence designated heptad times, and is a past All-Pro as well. author has been productive, but has never played for a success aggroup or been a conception of a top-notch defense. Crowder was such the same, but helped the 2009 Dolphins closing hierarchical ordinal in scoring in his ordinal year.
Three of the sextet linebackers on the itemize were direct starters in their prototypal assemblage with the team, with Donald Butler decent a official when he returned from an trauma that kept him discover for his rookie season. And Butler was directly arable for the Chargers.
Summary
History isn't untidy with third-round linebackers that stir up memories of Ray adventurer (although Lance Briggs would same to speaking that statement) but if his impact principle and grade are anything same Ray's, there's no think to conceive he can't do it; he has the power ordered and the talent to be a bounteous conception of the Jets accumulation feat forward.
The most past story suggests that Demario Davis should savor primeval success and should advance to the accumulation in a bounteous way, modify if his persona as a official is threatened by the proximity of Bart histrion as a first- and second-down linebacker.
Davis crapper verify comfortableness lettered that digit day, he'll probable acquire that play persona in locate of Scott.
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