An undrafted free agent signed to the Cowboys in 2022, the former Gator initially spent his clawing away on the practice squad with elevations every so often, more often as a rookie due to injury at the position; and he showed a lot of promise at that time in spelling and Tony Pollard but, adversity would again show itself when he struggled to find a way to convince the previous coaching regime to consistently give him a shot on the active roster.<\/p>\n
“I kept praying every day about what I wanted, you know,” said Davis. “I prayed every day when I was back at home, about this moment \u2014 I prayed hard and, boy, I appreciate it.”<\/p>\n
To this point, Davis has been waived a total of five times, including three in 2025 alone: one after having signed a reserve\/futures deal in January, re-signing in the summer and impressing in training camp and the preseason, then waived in August as part of final roster cuts, re-signing to the practice squad afterwards.<\/p>\n
In November, he was signed from the practice squad to the active roster, waived again shortly thereafter, and re-signed to the practice squad again, and then back to the active roster recently \u2014 where he currently remains, having taken a home run swing at sticking this time around.<\/p>\n
His journey serves as a testimony for many who might be on the verge of giving up on their dream simply because they can’t see the light quite yet.<\/p>\n
“Keep believing in yourself, and keep trusting God,” said Davis. “Whatever you want, you can go get it.\u2029Just keep trusting God, keep putting in that work, and it could happen for you. Straight up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An undrafted free agent signed to the Cowboys in 2022, the former Gator initially spent his clawing away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[161531,51478,4718,11414,349,99],"class_list":["post-318944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-featured-kcvsdal-2025","tag-malik-davis","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-patrik-walker","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}