Tracking the Pro Career of Hall Davis

[that guy]

im with you that there if far to much stock put into the combine, but unfortunately for someone like davis this is really his best and only chance to get noticed by pro-scouts.

with that said i think that for lineman the 3 cone, times in the 10 yard and 20 yard splits in the 40, and the 20 yard shuttle should be a better evaluation of explosiveness of a D-lineman. the only problem with davis running the 40 on the nfl website is that he didn't look very fast off of the line.

[Ragin Roar]

#2 on the list of players making their way in the draft!!!!

[ManAboutTown]

Is this an indictment on our DL coaches?

[that guy]

_ Is this an indictment on our DL coaches? _

not at all from me. It is and indictment more on the work out center that he has be training at in baton rouge. before he left the UL weight program with Big Rob he was running around a 4.7 and repping 30 times. to regress slightly shows me that these specialty centers are not doing very much to improve there athletes

[Boomer]

I asked Des. last year about the tests at the combine and their seemingly having much better results then our guys at UL had when on campus. He said that the purpose of training at UL was to win football games and the deal at the training camp was to do well at the combine---boy I wish we had more of him and his lil brother around our place!!!!!

[Parrott]

Parrott Blog with Hall Davis update:

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[zephyr]

_ Davis needed a good combine because he did not have a very productive college career. I do agree with you on the 40 stuff. I have no idea how that is an important measurable. _

I agree. It's not like Hall was a sack machine here at UL. As a matter of fact, I was quite disappointed in his last two years here as I thought he'd be looking at about 6-8 sacks per year at least. For his size and agility, I expected him to have more production.

[zephyr]

_ Is this an indictment on our DL coaches? _

It's hard for me to indict any of our football coaches as I know they do more with less than anybody else out there. However, we've not had a good DL in years and even since we've added a lot of size and athleticism to the DL over recent years, that has translated to little production. We have ends who don't seem to be able to get to the QB and this working on a tackle without any help most of the time. We have a DL that does little to stop the run and does little to plug up the blocking schemes of the OL that allows our Linebackers to fly around and make plays. Terrel Richardson is one of the better athletes at DE in the SBC and he probably doesn't have 10 career sacks and does little to disrupt the game. I would like to see us be able to disrupt the passing game a little more from the front 4 but it hasn't happened. Also, what is sort of ironic, Hall Davis' best game came against Ciron Black of LSU who many people thought was one of the top tackles in the country last year. It makes you wonder if its a focus or concentration or effort thing or that was just a good game.

[Turbine]

4.8 . . .

Tim Tebow Mr. Everything ran a 4.72

By contrast Desormeaux ran a 4.59 last year for Pro Day

Seems to me speed training should be a big part of every UL football players daily life for say 5 years.

[wcd35]

_ 4.8 . . .

Tim Tebow Mr. Everything ran a 4.72

By contrast Desormeaux ran a 4.59 last year for Pro Day

Seems to me speed training should be a big part of every UL football players daily life for say 5 years. _

Well Pro Day 40 times arent the same as Combine 40s. The combine is electronically timed, so usually you can add about 0.10 or more to a hand clocked time to compare it to an electronically timed 40. Still, scouts put a lot of stock into a few tenths of a seconds.

Best of luck to Hall at UL Pro Day. I think he will do just fine. I think he could do better reps too, but no shame in where he came out w/r/t other DE's and DT's

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Louisiana defensive end Hall Davis has visited the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, Tennessee Titans and the Detroit Lions, according to a source close to the program. The 6-foot-4, 271-pounder Ragin? Cajun was a late invite to ...

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[CajunRed]

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