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The eight defensive tackles in combine history to outpace Jordan Davis’ 4.78 40-yard dash

Only 8 defensive tackles have run faster 40s than Jordan Davis in scouting combine history. From Aaron Donald to guys you may not know.

It’s relatively safe to say that no draft prospect made more of a splash at the 2022 scouting combine than did Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis. At 6-foot-6 and 341 pounds, Davis somehow ran an unofficial 4.82 40-yard dash that was corrected DOWN to a 4.78 time when it was made official.

Davis also had a 1.68-second 10-yard split, which might be even more ridiculous for a man his size. How rare is all this? It’s pretty rare.

That’s regardless of position, kids. As for the defensive tackle position, only eight defensive tackles have run faster 40-yard dashes in recorded scouting combine history than Davis did, and nobody was close to his weight when they ran it. But here are those eight prospects — it’s a fascinating list of future Hall of Famers, multiple Pro-Bowlers and All-Pros, and one guy whose name might not be familiar to you at all.

(All draft data courtesy of MockDraftable.com). 

Jordan Davis sets Twitter ablaze with a 4.78 40-yard dash — at 341 pounds

Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis blew up the scouting combine with a 4.78 40-yard dash at 341 pounds. Twitter responses were just as quick.

Legendary coach Bill Parcells came up with the “Planet Theory,” in which Parcells posited that there are so few men both large enough and athletic enough to be NFL linemen that they are intrinsically valuable just standing there. During Saturday’s scouting combine drills at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, Georgia defensive tackle Jordan Davis extended the Planet Theory to its illogical limits when he lined up at 6-foot-6 and 341 pounds, and somehow ran an official 4.78-second 40-yard dash, with a 1.68-second 10-yard split.

To put that into perspective, at his scouting combine in 2017, Patrick Mahomes ran a 4.8 40-yard dash. People as large as Davis is should not be able to scoot at this level. People were flipping out at the unofficial 4.82 40-yard dash, and as it turned out, Davis got cheated a bit by the stopwatch.

The thing about Davis is that the speed and quickness shows up on tape.

Davis was also looking super-agile in the position drills.

As you’d expect, Draft Twitter had quite a bit to say about it.