INDIANAPOLIS — When linebacker Roquan Smith and the Georgia Bulldogs got the best of fellow draft prospect Baker Mayfield and the Oklahoma Sooners in the Rose Bowl in early January, Terrell Davis was there to celebrate with his alma mater.
Davis, of course, went on to have a Hall of Fame career with the Broncos after they drafted him in the sixth round out of Georgia in 1995.
As Smith took the podium at the 2018 NFL Combine on Saturday, it was worth considering whether the winner of the 2017 Butkus Award — given to the nation’s best collegiate linebacker — could follow the same path as one of the other Bulldog greats.