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Demario Davis has been special since joining the New Orleans Saints in 2018, and sometimes commenting on how special he is can feel redundant. The 33rd Team found a new stat to represent how rare his performance has been. Over the last five season, Davis has accumulated 590 tackles and 22 sacks.
There's been no other player in that timespan to exceed 500 tackles and 20 sacks. This is a testament to Davis' unique skillset and durability.Davis only missed two games in this five-year span.
One was due to COVID, and the other was due to injury, for the first time in his career. Most players don't have the toolset to reach these numbers, and the ones who do typically don't have the good fortune to remain as healthy as Davis has been throughout his career.The linebacker has always been a tackling machine.
He's surpassed 100 tackles every year since 2017 and set a career-high with 136 tackles this past season. It's no surprise he crossed the tackles threshold. Davis is a sideline to sideline linebacker, while also being a downhill thumper.
As he gets older, that physicality becomes a greater part of his game.Speaking of traits developed later in his career, Davis' proficiency as a pass rusher has grown. In 2022 and 2023, he recorded a career-high 6.
5 sacks. If those numbers simply dropped to four sacks per season, his previous high in New Orleans, Davis wouldn't have made the cut. Bringing his pass rush ability to the forefront set him apart from other linebackers and added another element to his game to disrupt offenses.
The versatility and durability allowed him to stand in rarefied air as the only player to hit both of those milestones.This article originally appeared on Saints Wire: No one has more tackles, sacks than Demario Davis the last five years.
