Without an acquisition made this summer, the Green Bay Packers will need a young player to emerge as a legitimate backup candidate behind Adrian Amos and Darnell Savage at safety. Shawn Davis, a fifth-round pick of the Indianapolis Colts in 2021 who joined the Packers practice squad last September, should have a real opportunity to win the job.
Safeties coach Ryan Downard thinks Davis has the right set of traits and is heading in the right direction mentally within the defense.
“Explosiveness, athletic ability and being able to process. And then continuing to build on ‘call command’ and being able to trust you’re going to put us into the right thing,” Downard said Wednesday. “He’s starting to show all those things, and he’s just continued that this spring.”
