Undrafted free agent
Pro status: 2nd string
College: Southern Mississippi
6 ft. 2 in., 221 lbs.
Hometown: Ringgold, Ga.
QB rating in the preseason: 75.3
While Baylor’s Robert Griffin III was winning last season’s Heisman Trophy, Austin Davis was winning the more obscure but still significant Burlsworth Trophy as the nation’s best player who began his college career as a nonscholarship walk-on. Davis copped the honor by erasing every statistical record once set by Brett Favre at Southern Miss, where Davis threw for a school record 3,331 yards in 2011.
