Nebraska DL transfer Keona Davis is transferring to Miami

Trinton Breeze

Saturday at 5:13 PM 1 min read

Miami went back to the transfer portal and added another defensive lineman.

Nebraska’s transfer defensive lineman Keona Davis announced Saturday afternoon that he’s heading to Coral Gables to join the Hurricanes’ defensive front, which is already stacked with high level talent.

Davis started on the Cornhuskers’ line and this past season racked up 32 tackles, one sack, and a pass deflection. The Tucson, Arizona, native still has two seasons of eligibility and should only get better with more playing time.

The 6-foot-5, 275-pounder spent two years at Nebraska, already bringing plenty of experience with 42 career tackles and 1.5 sacks since joining college football.

The Big Ten transfer is now the eighth full-time scholarship player Miami has added from the portal this cycle, with more moves expected.

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Calinative

Saturday at 6:56 PM

TheOriginalCane

Saturday at 6:58 PM

Tinman64

Saturday at 6:59 PM

Outstanding

TheOriginalCane

Saturday at 7:00 PM

k9cane said:
what we lost in terms of pure impact with Bain and Mesidor, Miami might make up for with sheer volume/depth upfront

Our goal-line defense is gonna look like the Big 8 back in the 80s!

PS, while we're at it, can we bring back ginormous shoulder pads, we might make a few extra tackles...

Last edited: Saturday at 7:06 PM

Hstokes1447

Saturday at 7:02 PM

With this addition, Miami now has the deepest (pause) and most versatile defensive line in the nation. Teams will not be able to handle the waves of beast coming at them all game. It’s almost blasphemy to say this but, we just might be looking at the deepest defensive line since the 2001 team.

DE/DT Rotation

JR Armondo Blount 6-4 280
JR Keona Davis 6-5 280
RSO Cole McConathy 6-5 280
SO Herbert Scroggins 6-3 260
RFR Hayden Lowe 6-5 270

DE Rotation

SR Damon Wilson 6-4 250
JR Marquise Lightfoot 6-5 240
RSO Booker Pickett 6-3 240
FR Asharri Charles 6-2 240

DT Rotation

RSR Ahmad Moten 6-3 305
JR Justin Scott 6-4 310
SO Jarquez Carter 6-1 300
RFR Mykah Newton 6-3 290
FR Keshawn Stancil 6-3 290

Thats not including these young guys, who with the 9 game red shirt rule, could sill see the field but truly will not be needed.

DE/DT
FR Tyson Bacon 6-3 270
FR Isaac Chukwurah 6-3 270
FR Logan Nagle 6-5 290

DE
FR DeAnthony Lafayette 6-1 240

DT
FR Frederic Sainteus 6-4 285

TheOriginalCane

Saturday at 7:03 PM

bobbydigius said:
I maybe over thinking it but we do have the personnel to run a 3-4 like front with Davis/Blount Moten and Scott with Lightfoot as a JACK if we wanted to?

Talking about running a 3-4 should be an automatic ban.

******* ridiculous. Move to Tallahassee.

TheOriginalCane

Saturday at 7:04 PM

htownkidd said:
From a pure personnel standpoint, yes probably. But Hetherman is a 1gap penetrating up field attack guy and 3-4 is 2 gapping primarily so we won’t see any of that. We have big athletic mfs that we can do a bunch of sh*t with though, and I trust him to do just that.

Thank you for shutting up these 3-4 dopeys.

Hstokes1447

Saturday at 7:09 PM

Calinative said:
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yeyo

Saturday at 7:10 PM

CanesFanfromNJ said:
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The DB depth is concerning. I hope we get moving on that soon.

bobbydigius

Saturday at 7:11 PM

TheOriginalCane said:
Talking about running a 3-4 should be an automatic ban.

******* ridiculous. Move to Tallahassee.

Can’t argue with you there based on what Dorito did

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ageezy

Saturday at 7:15 PM

ThomasM said:
D linemen want to be coached by Jason Taylor as well. They know what's up.

put some respect on dlew name ... he's an unsung hero

gogeta4

Saturday at 7:15 PM

Ver said:
If he's actually 6'5, I assume he could afford to bulk up if needed.

he went into nebraska at 240. Kid is on the right track. Hes an inside -out guy. What you saw Blount doing. He maybe better at than Blount though.

gogeta4

Saturday at 7:16 PM

Casprings4 said:
I like the flexibility these kind of guys add to alignments. He's a perfect guy to put at the 5 tech or 4i that allows you to line up someone like Lightfoot at that super wide 9 we've been using.

Yup this is what Logan Nagle is in this class as well that we signed.

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ageezy

Saturday at 7:18 PM

yeyo said:
The DB depth is concerning. I hope we get moving on that soon.

as of of now we have 5 LEGIT cbs (oj, brown, lucas, oconnor, slime) and four legit safeties in poyser, fitzergald, thornton (nickel), and pruitt ... that's just based on the national championship caliber team we just fielded ... haven't included one frosh or improved guy ... we straight

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ageezy

Saturday at 7:19 PM

TheOriginalCane said:
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classic kanye ... not the nutball we see today

Hstokes1447

Saturday at 7:25 PM

gogeta4 said:
he went into nebraska at 240. Kid is on the right track. Hes an inside -out guy. What you saw Blount doing. He maybe better at than Blount though.

Totally agree, that’s the scary part. I don’t think people realize just how talented he is. Him and Blount will be chess pieces that Hetherman can use all over the line.

Golsen82

Saturday at 7:31 PM

Calinative said:
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Opponent ACC OL

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bacane

Saturday at 7:32 PM

chris2183l said:
Curious if they see him more as a DT or Edge? Maybe mix of both? Line looking strong. Any ideas what the 2 deep may look like

Some nice additions, plus a solid freshman class.

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Canes_

Saturday at 7:38 PM

Hstokes1447 said:
With this addition, Miami now has the deepest (pause) and most versatile defensive line in the nation. Teams will not be able to handle the waves of beast coming at them all game. It’s almost blasphemy to say this but, we just might be looking at the deepest defensive line since the 2001 team.

DE/DT Rotation

JR Armondo Blount 6-4 280

JR Keona Davis 6-5 280

RSO Cole McConathy 6-5 280

SO Herbert Scroggins 6-3 260

RFR Hayden Lowe 6-5 270

DE Rotation

SR Damon Wilson 6-4 250

JR Marquise Lightfoot 6-5 240

RSO Booker Pickett 6-3 240

FR Asharri Charles 6-2 240

DT Rotation

RSR Ahmad Moten 6-3 305

JR Justin Scott 6-4 310

SO Jarquez Carter 6-1 300

RFR Mykah Newton 6-3 290

FR Keshawn Stancil 6-3 290

Thats not including these young guys, who with the 9 game red shirt rule, could sill see the field but truly will not be needed.

DE/DT
FR Tyson Bacon 6-3 270
FR Isaac Chukwurah 6-3 270
FR Logan Nagle 6-5 290

DE
FR DeAnthony Lafayette 6-1 240

DT
FR Frederic Sainteus 6-4 285

Initially, my reply was solely to say that with the DE rotation you listed, there really is no difference between the first two on either side (imo Lightfoot will be one of the stars on defense next year) and then I noticed Lowe is all the way 5th on one of the depth charts!!...and you can't even really argue about it lol (Scroggins was playing in the playoffs).

This has the makings of the deepest and most talented defensive line at Miami in decades.