Jordan
Davis.
Jordan
Davis.
Georgia· 6'6"· 341 lb· 4.78s 40
"A 341-pound nose tackle who ran 4.78 at the combine and anchored the greatest college defense of the modern era — Philadelphia bet that a one-of-one athlete would grow into more than a run-stuffer, and by year four it had."Pre-draft read
Davis was the most unique athlete in the 2022 class, a 6-foot-6, 341-pound nose tackle who ran a 4.78 forty at the combine — one of the most remarkable testing performances ever for a man his size. The base trait is immovable power: he resets the line of scrimmage, eats double teams and erases interior run lanes by himself.
The secondary trait is surprising range — he chased plays outside the tackle box at Georgia in ways 340-pound men are not supposed to. The cap is pass-rush production: seven career sacks in four seasons, with long stretches where he was a two-down space-eater. The signature is size-speed combinations that simply do not exist anywhere else in football.
Multiple front that uses him as a two-gapping zero/one-technique on early downs and lets him push the pocket next to an elite three-technique on passing downs
Year 1: rotational run-down anchor behind veterans. Ceiling: 60-snap, three-down game-wrecker whose presence dictates protections and run fits.
A one-gap penetrating 4-3 that asks its tackles to win with first-step quickness upfield — his gifts are power and range, not a rush plan.
Philadelphia pairing him with Jalen Carter, his Georgia teammate, recreated the exact structure that made Georgia's defense historic.
Jordan Davis Scores a Touchdown vs Charleston Southern
A 341-pound defensive tackle carrying the ball into the end zone — the most Jordan Davis play imaginable.
Jordan Davis at the 2022 NFL Combine
The national champion discussing his game during the weekend he ran 4.78 at 341 pounds.
Jordan Davis Destroys a Triple Team
NFL tape of the run-defense dominance that made him the anchor of a Super Bowl defense.
Davis was the anchor of the 2021 Georgia defense, arguably the best college unit of the modern era. A four-year contributor who arrived from Charlotte as a three-star recruit, he won the Bednarik and Outland trophies as a senior, made the SEC All-Freshman team in 2018 and finished with 91 career tackles, 12.5 for loss and seven sacks while drawing constant double teams on a national championship defense.
The evaluation split every room. The case: a one-of-one athlete who just ran 4.78 at 341 pounds, dominant tape against the run, and a role — two-gapping nose — where his modest sack totals were a feature of the assignment, not a bug. The concern: he had never been asked to rush the passer full-time, played limited snaps in Georgia's rotation, and pure nose tackles almost never go in the top fifteen.
Boards had him anywhere from top ten to late first. Philadelphia, with a defense built on line depth, traded up two spots to No. 13 and took him, betting that the rarest body in the draft would develop pass-rush value to match the run dominance.
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Generational size-speed combo
A 4.78 forty at 341 pounds is arguably the most impressive athletic feat in combine history; no interior lineman has ever moved like him.
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Run defense dominance
He single-handedly closed interior lanes for the best defense in college football, resetting the line and freeing linebackers to run clean.
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Anchor and power
Double teams bounced off him; his ability to hold ground without giving an inch is a foundational trait for any defensive front.
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Range for his size
Georgia's tape shows him chasing screens and outside runs to the sideline, a 340-pound man with linebacker pursuit range.
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Championship pedigree
Bednarik and Outland winner, four-year starter in the SEC and the centerpiece of a national title defense loaded with pros.
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Limited pass-rush production
Seven sacks in four seasons; he was rarely asked to pin his ears back, so NFL rush value was a projection, not a proven skill.
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Snap count concerns
Georgia rotated him heavily and he rarely played more than half the defensive snaps, raising questions about three-down stamina.
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Positional value
True nose tackles who do not rush the passer are rarely worth top-fifteen picks in the modern NFL economy.
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Weight management
Playing at 341 requires constant conditioning discipline, and any drift upward threatens the quickness that made him special.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.78sp50
- Vertical
- 32inp50
- Broad jump
- 123inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Georgia | 11 | 25 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Georgia | 14 | 18 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Georgia | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Georgia | 15 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career | — | 47 | 91 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2020 (16 tkl, 1.0 TFL, 1.0 sack in 7 G) and 2021 (32, 5.5, 2.0) verified against cfbstats.com player pages; 2018 and 2019 verified against his Wikipedia statistics table, which matches cfbstats on the overlapping seasons. Career line is the exact sum of the four seasons.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Massive, underrated interior anchor who made Pro Bowls as a two-down eraser and occasional pocket-pusher.
The ceiling: an all-time nose tackle whose dominance never showed in sack totals but anchored championship defenses for a decade.
First-round run-stuffing nose who never developed any pass rush and became a journeyman two-down player.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Jordan Davis has played two seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles, primarily as a run-stuffing defensive tackle. He has been a rotational player, contributing to the Eagles' defensive line.
Davis's career is the case for patience with unicorns. As a rookie he rotated behind veterans — 13 games, 18 tackles, no sacks. In 2023 he took over as a full-time starter (42 tackles, 2.5 sacks), and in 2024 he was the run-stuffing heart of a Super Bowl LIX championship defense, even if the box score (26 tackles, one sack) never told the story. Philadelphia had already committed: a three-year, $78 million extension in March 2025 made him one of the highest-paid nose tackles ever.
Then the pass rush finally arrived. In 2025 Davis produced a career year — 70 tackles, 4.5 sacks and six passes defended in 17 games — playing more snaps and wrecking more plays than ever. The honest verdict: a hit at No. 13 that took four years to fully bloom. He is not Jalen Carter, but a two-time-impact defender on a title team who got better every season is exactly what the Eagles drafted. The top-fifteen positional-value debate never fully disappears, yet a Pro Bowl-caliber nose on a contender answers it well enough.
Data note: from Cleveland via Houston / 2021 Chuck Bednarik Award and Outland Trophy winner