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This is our second scouting report of draft season, after focusing on Alabama cornerback Domani Jackson in our first piece. Arizona’s Tacario Davis is another potential Day 2 cornerback selection, which will be the range in which the Green Bay Packers will draft a new starter at the position this April, if they get a new starter, since they’re out first-round picks in the next two drafts because of the Micah Parsons trade.
Let’s hop right into it.
Davis was not a highly-recruited player coming out of Long Beach, California, as he was listed as a three-star recruit on the 247Sports Composite. Overall, he was ranked the 1,140th player nationally in the 2022 class, good for the 107th cornerback and the 83rd overall player in California that year. For perspective, here are some schools that higher-ranked California high school recruits from his class went to: Harvard, Colorado State, San Jose State, San Diego State, Fresno State, Jackson State, Portland State, Boise State and UNLV.
As a prep, Davis’ only scholarship offers were Arizona, Arizona State and Kansas. After receiving an offer from Arizona in late January of his junior season in high school, he committed to the Wildcats less than a month later. He held that commitment throughout the process and enrolled at Arizona the summer after his senior year (this is a little less common in this era, as many recruits try to early enroll mid-way through what would have been their senior year of high school).
The former prep receiver and defensive back focused on the cornerback position at the college level. After only playing five games as a true freshman in 2022, Davis had his most productive season in his college career as a sophomore, when he registered 15 pass breakups and earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors after being an unknown coming into the year.
After that season, his head coach, Jedd Fisch, left to take the Washington job. Davis, like receiver Tetairoa McMillan (2025 8th overall pick) and offensive lineman Jonah Savaiinaea (2025 37th overall pick), stuck it out with a new coaching staff, only to go 4-8 (2-7 in Big 12 play) in 2024. Davis also played with Green Bay 2024 first-round pick Jordan Morgan at the college level.
After the 2024 season didn’t pan out as expected (for his team, he still made second-team All-Big 12), Davis was one of three Wildcats who transferred to Washington to reunite with Fisch in 2025. He has been a three-year starter at the college level. This year, he dealt with a rib injury and then a hamstring injury, which we’ll talk about in the scouting report section.
Washington played their cornerbacks in the weirdest way I’ve ever seen the position deployed. Usually, cornerbacks either line up left or right, field (far side of the field) or boundary (short side of the field) or near/far to their team’s sideline. The Huskies used Davis as a player who was always at the top of the screen,...
