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Position: OLB
Class: 2010 Big Board
Year: Senior
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
Date of Birth: 11.10.86
Height: 6020
Weight: 244
Bench Press: 25
Vertical Jump: 35"
40 T: 4.64
Projection: PFA
Ordering: 272
SCOUT'S TAKE
Skinny: Last season Davis had 40 total tackles, 15 tackles for loss, and 11 sacks. The issue is that Davis is only listed at 6-2, 255 pounds, and most teams that play the 3-4 defense like their pass rushing outside linebackers to be taller then 6-3, so that is one negative going into the evaluation process. But as a pure pass rusher, Davis is outstanding. He enters the 2009 season fourth in Sun Devil history with 27.5 career sacks, and should move up the charts by the end of the season. Davis has the speed and athleticism to be a big-time pass rusher in the NFL.
Quote of Note: “All I can picture is him coming off the edge and putting his helmet in the quarterback’s back. Dexter has probably done that 15 times this year, and even when he doesn’t get the sack, the quarterback is not standing in there as high as he did before.”
-- Linebacker Mike Nixon on Dexter Davis
NEWS
08.25.08 – Arizona State University junior defensive end Dexter Davis has been named to the Watch List for the 2008 Rotary Lombardi Award, which is presented annually to the nation's best college football lineman or linebacker. Davis has started all 26 games in his ASU career, and he has led the Sun Devils in sacks both seasons. In 2007, he tied for third in the Pacific-10 Conference with 10.5 sacks, and he also had 33 tackles, three forced fumbles and a pass break-up to earn Second-Team All-Pac-10 honors. In his two years at ASU, he has 73 tackles, 16.5 sacks and six forced fumbles. Davis has also been named to the Watch List for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, for the best defensive player in college football, and the Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year Award.
07.21.08 – The Ted Hendricks Foundation today announced that Arizona State University junior defensive end Dexter Davis has been named to the Watch List for the 2008 Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year Award, presented annually to the nation's top defensive end. Former Sun Devil Terrell Suggs won the first ever Hendricks Award in 2002.