It certainly didn’t take long for the NFL to officially christen Lions first-round linebacker Jarrad Davis. It was just announced that Davis picked up a fine for his exquisite WWE-level body slam of Arizona Cardinals tight end Jermaine Gresham.
JD out here bodyslamming folks.#GatorMade pic.twitter.com/f8u0igTTUX
— 🐊 JJ 🐊 (@jjgatorman) September 10, 2017
Lions rookie Jarrad Davis drew his first NFL fine last week, $9,115 for his body slam of Jermaine Gresham
— Dave Birkett (@davebirkett) September 15, 2017
The fine is *only* $9,115 of Davis’ $465,000 base salary this year, but he’ll probably be looking to avoid any more hits to his wallet.
As far Davis’ actual performance, he looked good on the stat sheet racking up nine tackles in his debut but graded out as the second worst linebacker on Pro Football Focus.
Yes, #Lions rookie LB Jarrad Davis had a good looking stat sheet, but PFF graded him out at 32.5 overall.
Ranked 62/63 out of LBs pic.twitter.com/MRi0VUy8KI
— Logan Lamorandier (@LLamorandier) September 11, 2017
All in all, it wasn’t a bad day for Davis or the Lions defense as a whole, as they were able to hold Arizona to just 17 offensive points forcing three turnovers in the process.
