With the No. 192 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the New York Giants selected Illinois offensive lineman J.C. Davis.<\/p>\n
40-Yard Dash: 5.16 Seconds<\/p>\n
10-Yard Split: 1.78 Seconds<\/p>\n
Hometown: Oakland, Calif.<\/p>\n
Phil Steele All-America Fourth Team<\/p>\n
All-Big Ten First Team (coaches)<\/p>\n
All-Big Ten Second Team (media)<\/p>\n
AP All-Big Ten First Team<\/p>\n
49 consecutive starts to end his college career<\/p>\n
No. 3 graded LT in the nation during the 2025 regular season, according to PFF<\/p>\n
Athlon Preseason All-Big Ten First Team<\/p>\n
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big Ten Fourth Team<\/p>\n
Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List<\/p>\n
All-Big Ten Third Team (Coaches)<\/p>\n
All-Big Ten Honorable Mention (Media)<\/p>\n
Fighting Illini Male Newcomer of the Year<\/p>\n
Started all 13 games at left tackle<\/p>\n
AP All-Bowl Team after zero pressures allowed in Illinois’ win over #14 South Carolina in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl (12\/31\/24)<\/p>\n
No. 7-pass-blocking grade tackle in the country during the postseason according to PFF (87.6, min. 40 snaps) after Illinois’ win in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl over #14 South Carolina (12\/31\/24)<\/p>\n
No. 8-graded run-blocking lineman according to PFF (72.1, min. 54 snaps) in win at Northwestern (11\/30\/24)<\/p>\n
No. 4-graded pass-blocking lineman in the country according to PFF (89.1, min. 71 snaps) in win at Rutgers (11\/23\/24)<\/p>\n
Highest-graded tackle in the nation to return to college football, according to PFF (min. 600 snaps)<\/p>\n
PFF Preseason All-America Third Team<\/p>\n
Athlon Preseason All-Big Ten Third Team<\/p>\n
Phil Steele Preseason All-Big Ten Fourth Team<\/p>\n
2025 Senior Bowl Watch List<\/p>\n
Top 100 newcomer in college football by ESPN<\/p>\n
Transferred to Illinois in January 2024 with one year of eligibility remaining<\/p>\n
Started all 12 games at left tackle<\/p>\n
All-Mountain West First Team<\/p>\n
No. 4-graded tackle in the nation and No. 1 in the Group of 5 (84.6), according to PFF (min. 600 snaps)<\/p>\n
No. 6 run blocking grade in the nation among tackles and No. 1 in Group of 5 (83.7), according to PFF<\/p>\n
Played 827 snaps at left tackle, nearly every snap of the season<\/p>\n
2022 Sophomore – New Mexico<\/p>\n
Started all 12 games at left tackle<\/p>\n
All-Mountain West Honorable Mention<\/p>\n
Mountain West All-Academic<\/p>\n
Played 704 snaps at left tackle, nearly every snap of the season<\/p>\n
New Mexico’s highest-graded offensive lineman<\/p>\n
2021 Freshman – Contra Costa College<\/p>\n
Played for head coach Otis Yelverton at Contra Costa College<\/p>\n
Played for head coach Michael Peters at McClymonds<\/p>\n
All-conference second team as a senior<\/p>\n
All-city second team as a junior<\/p>\n
Majoring in communication<\/p>\n
Majored in business at New Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the No. 192 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the New York Giants selected Illinois offensive lineman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34086,2468,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-209739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-homepage","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}