Demario Davis
New York JetsModel Score
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
Season Stats · 17 games
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Comps
STM Take
Three Pro Bowls plus two 1st-team All-Pros plus the 2023 tier 1 (#7) STTM peak puts Davis in the rarefied Hall-of-Fame trajectory class. The Arkansas State Sun Belt 3rd-round origin plus 14 years of NFL elite production give him one of the highest LB career résumés in NFL history. The 2026 question is whether Davis extends through age 38 or whether the structural late-career closure finally takes hold.
Davis came out of Arkansas State as the New York Jets' 3rd-round pick (77th overall) in 2012 and has earned three Pro Bowls (2019, 2022, 2023) plus two 1st-team All-Pro selections (2019, 2022). He has been a Saints anchor across eight seasons. His STTM career runs tier 2 (#9) in 2021, tier 2 (#13) in 2022, tier 1 (#7) peak in 2023, tier 4 (#25) in 2024, and tier 8 (#67) collapse in 2025 at age 37.
Strengths
- Three Pro Bowls plus two 1st-team All-Pros plus 2023 tier 1 (#7) STTM peak at age 35 establishes Hall-of-Fame LB résumé.
- Arkansas State 3rd-round origin plus 14 years of NFL elite production gives him the rare durability-and-excellence résumé.
Concerns
- 42-spot regression from tier 4 (#25) in 2024 to tier 8 (#67) in 2025 at age 37 confirms the structural late-career closure is here.
- Age 37 plus 14 years of LB wear puts the late-career retirement question on every 2026 projection.
What to watch: Whether Davis extends through age 38 in 2026 or whether the structural late-career closure finally takes hold.