During his 6 games at right guard specifically, he was an above-average right guard in pass protection.
As a run blocker he has enormous POTENTIAL because he's got such a big frame and such gifted athletic ability.
Mind you, this guy is near-elite level as an athlete, if you consider his size.
He's got the same frame, almost exactly, as Quenton Nelson. That's one of the reasons Nelson was rated so high. The two players are massive; height, wing span, build, all of it.
Did you guys realize that he has all these things going for him?
Height (6057): 91st percentile
Weight (325 lbs): 81st percentile
Wing Span (82.5"): 95th percentile
Arm Length (33.75"): 65th percentile
10 Yard Split (1.70s): 94th percentile
40 Yard Dash (5.28s): 58th percentile
Vertical Jump (30.5"): 82nd percentile
Broad Jump (108"): 84th percentile
Bench Reps (26): 56th percentile
Shuttle (4.85s): 36th percentile
Cone Drill (7.41s): 93rd percentile
He pulled his hamstring on his 40 yard dash, and if you look at his stellar 10 yard split, not hard to speculate he might have run faster.
The shuttle measure is really the ONLY disappointing measure in there, and in my experience you have to A) look at shuttle and cone together and take the best result of the two since they're so related, and B) take the two of them with a little bit of a grain of salt anyway because they can be pretty esoteric in their execution.
He spent most of his time in college on the defensive line, and only moved to offensive tackle very late. He was always going to have to spend some time learning.
When he's at his worst, it's going to be losing the hand fight right at the initial contact, putting him in a bad spot from which he digs himself out using his tremendous frame and leg drive. Because he's still learning, there are times he seems unaware or lacking anticipation of a late development like a delayed blitz or a stunt.
But the the frame and the explosive acceleration, his agility, they're all evident. His size and strength makes him hard to bull rush, a lot like Josh Sitton. His forward explosiveness and body control mean that he can really move people. He's not Dave DeCastro when it comes to finding targets on the move (to me, DeCastro is the benchmark by which you measure others), but Davis's agility gives him the ability to recover and get work done in ways that tend to surprise people, and his frame is intimidating out in space, which creates a lot of hesitation and delays among defenders as they try and figure out how to get around him.
