After Jedd Fisch left Arizona to take the Washington job last offseason, Arizona had to watch as several players entered the transfer portal to follow him out the door.
One of those players was cornerback Tacario Davis, who appeared all but gone before deciding to remaining with the Wildcats during spring football and ultimately stuck around.
This time around, though, it appears that Davis won’t be making a triumphant return to Tucson, as his intentions for 2025 were made known on Tuesday afternoon.
While it was a year later than most expected, Davis will indeed reunite with his former head coach in Seattle to play for the Washington Huskies.
Davis is ranked as the No. 1 cornerback in the portal in this cycle and the No. 3 overall player in the portal, per On3, making this a massive loss for the Wildcats.
This past season, Davis started 11 games for Arizona and earned second-team All-Big 12 honors, although his 43 tackles and six PBUs on the year were far below expectations.
Davis was a menace under DB coach John Richardson — who now serves the same role at Washington —— in 2023, recording 15 PBUs and one interception as a lockdown corner for Arizona.
Coming out of the 2023 Alamo Bowl, Davis was picking up steam as a potential first-rounder with an excellent combination of size (6-foot-4, 190 lbs) and speed, but he didn’t quite live up to that this season.
He’ll have a chance to change that in ’25, though, and with a tradition of strong defensive back play at Washington before him, it’s likely Davis will hear his name called when the 2026 NFL Draft rolls around.
The transfer portal officially opened on Monday, December 9, 2024, and will remain open until Saturday, December 28, with an exception for players on teams who play bowl games after the window closes. According to NCAA data, 2,273 FBS football players entered the transfer portal in 2023-24 school year, with 1,558 (68.5%) undergraduates and 715 (31.5%) graduate transfers. Of the entrants, 57% reported that they enrolled in another school, 8% withdrew their names from the portal, and 35% are still active, transferred to a non-NCAA school, or left their sport.
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