It was late summer by the time Jordan Davis joined the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program last year after transferring from Ball State, so a lot of his first season with the Mocs was simply spent learning.
Davis hopes year two at UTC is about execution of what he has learned so far.
After appearing in four games as a redshirt freshman in 2025 while contributing mostly on special teams, the 6-foot-2, 197-pounder from Columbia, Tennessee, has put himself in position to compete for the starting safety spot opposite All-Southern Conference second-team selection Kam Baah-Slay, who will be a senior this fall. Davis got the majority of the snaps at that spot during spring practices, which UTC closed out last weekend.
He also played in just four games as a Ball State freshman in 2024, so he has a long way to go in building college experience, but UTC’s coaches and his teammates feel good about the progress Davis has made to this point.
“He’s flying around. He’s moving. He’s been owning the film room,” Baah-Slay said after last Saturday’s “Spring Showcase” at Scrappy Moore Field. “He knows it; he’s on top of it out here. He’s being physical, so it’s a good thing to have a young guy come in and know what he’s doing right off the top.”