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Way to read or understand the post. No, I did not think he was an SEC or NFL talent. But that doesn't matter because he always had the tools to somehow become that. Dee Davis does not. So you can hope and pray and wish all you want; a kid who is ~5'8-5'9 with tiny hands, OK speed, and an OK arm is not going to somehow magically turn into a 1st round pick. If he had elite accuracy or pass-throwing ability he would have shown those traits by now; instead he was fighting for walk-ons for practice reps. That tells as lot.

You are comparing an apple to a loaf of bread and completely missing the entire nuance of what you are trying to compare. Malik Willis is a 1st round pick because he possesses elite physical tools. Even today, after his time spent at Liberty, he is still raw and will need significant NFL coaching. What makes Willis the talent that he is is the fact that he has arguably the best arm-strength in his draft class and is a freakishly good athlete/runner at QB as well. This makes him an incredibly high-upside talent, which is why despite his rawness as a passer (reading defenses, progressions, etc) he is poised to go Top 10 in the draft. You can't "coach" his talent. What about this is confusing? He didn't get coached at Liberty into having a rocket-launcher for an arm, or coached into being a ~4.4 forty runner with natural vision and playmaking ability with his legs. Dee Davis has absolutely none of those tools going for him. He is considerably smaller than Willis, is nowhere near as fast, and his arm-strength is average at best (and that is being generous). The other thing that you are completely missing is that Willis came to college with barely any QB experience - his Senior season in HS was the first time he took real reps as a starter at QB. This means that it is understandable that it took him time to "develop" his way into what he is now, because he was basically a converted ATH - hence why most schools recruited him as such out of HS. Dee Davis on the other hand was what, a 3-4 years HS starter on a hugely successful HS team? This means that it is considerably more worrying that he supposedly has accuracy issues or turnover issues - because he already has significant reps under his belt. He's not new to the position. The point that you (and many others) are missing is that Davis just doesn't have starting QB traits. Period. He is tiny, has an OK arm, supposedly isn't very accurate or consistent, and he is just a good but not great athlete. This means that he has a severe cap on his actual upside. You can't coach a guy into having starter-caliber traits. For someone like him to be successful, he needs to be otherworldly in terms of the intricacies of throwing the football - but he's not. And those aren't qualities that are generally "coachable". The list of NFL QB's who are sub 5'10, have OK speed, and are just average in terms of accuracy is basically ZERO. Kyler Murray is a freak athlete with a considerably better arm than Davis possesses. If a guy doesn't have the physical tools to excel, it doesn't matter how much "coaching" he gets. It's as silly as suggesting that your 5'7 170 pound walk-on RB with 4.6 speed can be coached or work his way into being a starting SEC RB. A guy like Willis who has freakish natural tools can be coached into being great, or maybe just needs reps to develop. A guy with below-average physical tools can not and does not fall under the same category.