Tyrion
Davis-Price.
Tyrion
Davis-Price.
LSU· 6'0"· 211 lb· 4.48s 40
Davis-Price is a big-bodied downhill runner who does his best work between the tackles in a gap scheme. He presses the line, reads the down block and gets north, and once he is squared up he runs through arm tackles and punishes defensive backs at the second level. He was LSU's answer in short yardage and at the goal line.
The secondary trait is more burst than the frame suggests: he shows a second gear through a clean crease and can pull away from linebackers in the open field. What he does not offer is elusiveness or receiving polish. He is stiff changing direction, slow to string moves together in a phone booth, and was used almost exclusively as a runner with a bare route tree. Volume and power are the pitch, not versatility.
A downhill gap and duo run game that lets him press a single read behind a puller or a down block, paired with a heavy short-yardage and goal-line package.
Year 1: the third back on the depth chart who handles short yardage and closes out games with a lead. Ceiling: a 12-to-15-carry early-down starter in a gap-heavy offense that hides him on passing downs.
A spread offense that keeps one back on the field for all three downs and asks him to win on option routes and in empty protection, where his lack of a route tree takes the entire package off the menu.
His value is inversely proportional to how often the offense throws on first and second down.
Tyrion Davis-Price rushes for a LSU-record 287 yards, 3 TDs
The signature game against Florida in 2021 that broke the LSU single-game rushing record and made him a draftable back.
Tyrion Davis-Price College Highlights (Welcome to the 49ers)
The full college reel San Francisco used to introduce the pick: downhill gap runs, contact balance and goal-line work.
Tyrion Davis-Price vs Vanderbilt (2020)
All-22 style single-game cut from the sophomore year showing the vision and the limits in space.
Davis-Price is a thumper. At a shade over six feet and 211 pounds he is built like a chain mover, and the LSU tape is a three-year study in the same thing: press the hole, take what the down block gives, and finish with force. He was a four-star local recruit who stayed home and worked his way up from spot duty as a freshman to the featured back as a junior.
The production curve is steep and legible. He carried 64 times for 295 yards and six touchdowns across 14 games in 2019, took over a bigger share in the shortened 2020 season with 104 attempts for 446 yards, then broke out in 2021 with 211 carries for 1,003 yards and six scores in 12 games. The signature game was a school-record 287 rushing yards against Florida. The flags were just as clear: 28 career receptions in three years, no route tree to speak of, a 30-inch vertical at the combine, and ball security that occasionally wobbled late in runs. The 4.48 forty at 211 pounds was better than the tape suggested.
The board had him as a Day 3 gap-scheme rotational back with short-yardage value, not an every-down piece. San Francisco took him at 93, a reach against consensus, betting that Kyle Shanahan's run game could turn any back with vision and size into production.
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Contact balance
Runs through arm tackles and drags defensive backs; his leg churn after first contact consistently turns a two-yard carry into a five-yard gain.
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Short-yardage value
Genuine goal-line and third-and-one answer with the mass and pad level to move a pile and the willingness to seek out the hit.
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Long speed
A 4.48 forty at 211 pounds shows on tape as a second gear through a clean crease, enough to run away from second-level defenders.
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Gap-scheme vision
Presses the line, reads the down block and commits downhill without dancing, which is exactly how his best runs at LSU started.
- 05
Signature production
1,003 yards as a junior including an LSU single-game record 287 rushing yards against Florida, the top-end game that put him on boards.
- 01
Receiving game
Just 28 career catches in three seasons with essentially no route tree, which caps him as a two-down back until he proves otherwise.
- 02
Change of direction
Stiff in tight spaces and slow to string moves together; he is a one-cut runner who struggles when the first read closes.
- 03
Explosive testing
A 30-inch vertical placed him in the single-digit percentile among backs, an athletic red flag that showed up in short-area agility.
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Ball security
Multiple wobbles at the end of runs, an issue that magnifies for a back whose entire value proposition is carrying the ball in traffic.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.48sp50
- Vertical
- 30inp50
- Broad jump
- 117inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Att | Yds | TD | Rec | RecYds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | LSU | 14 | 64 | 295 | 6 | 10 | 74 |
| 2020 | LSU | 9 | 104 | 446 | 3 | 8 | 47 |
| 2021 | LSU | 12 | 211 | 1003 | 6 | 10 | 64 |
| Career | — | 35 | 379 | 1744 | 15 | 28 | 185 |
2020 and 2021 read directly from cfbstats (LSU team 365, player 1103978); 2019 from official season totals. The three seasons sum exactly to the published career line of 35 games, 379 carries, 1,744 rushing yards, 15 rushing touchdowns and 28 receptions for 185 yards. Fumbles are published only for 2021 (2) and are not carried season by season rather than filled with zeros.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A between-the-tackles early-down back who moves the chains and scores in short yardage while never threatening on third down.
The ceiling is a big back who, in the right gap scheme and with a healthy line, produces at an elite yards-per-carry clip in stretches.
A depth back whose snaps come on special teams and in four-minute offense, with roster security that depends on the backs in front of him.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Tyrion Davis-Price played sparingly in his rookie season with the San Francisco 49ers. He was waived before the 2023 season and has not played in an NFL game since.
The NFL career never got started. Davis-Price appeared in six games as a rookie in San Francisco in 2022, carrying 34 times for 99 yards without a touchdown behind Christian McCaffrey, Elijah Mitchell and Jordan Mason. He played one game in 2023, was released in December and re-signed to the practice squad. Philadelphia signed him in February 2024, cut him in August, then elevated him from the practice squad for one game. Tennessee signed him in June 2025 and released him a month later; Green Bay signed him in August 2025 and released him before the season. He landed with the UFL's Birmingham Stallions, playing eight games with two starts in 2026. His NFL line is eight games, no starts, 43 carries, 127 yards.
This is a clean miss, and it was a miss the board flagged in real time. Consensus had Davis-Price as a Day 3 rotational back; San Francisco spent the 93rd pick on him and then drafted and developed cheaper, better backs around him. The traits that made him worth a look — mass, contact balance, short-yardage value — are the most replaceable traits at the most replaceable position, and without third-down ability there was no path to a roster spot when the run game got crowded. The lesson is old and keeps needing to be relearned: a one-dimensional back with a limited receiving profile has no margin, and a top-100 pick spent on one buys almost nothing.
Data note: Imported from Wikipedia 2022 NFL draft player selections table.