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Tacario Davis Feels Whole Lott of Love. Makes Award Watch List

The Husky cornerback is among 42 players in contention for an honor that salutes the nation's top defensive player.
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Tacario Davis (8) and Ephesians Prysock (7) played together at Arizona and have been reunited as UW corners.
Tacario Davis (8) and Ephesians Prysock (7) played together at Arizona and have been reunited as UW corners. | Skylar Lin Visuals

Tacario Davis, the other day, passionately told how he wanted to be a first-team All-America selection this season as he finishes up his much-decorated college football career at the University of Washington.

He didn't say anything about the Lott Trophy.

No worry, someone else has been paying attention to the senior cornerback and this week put him among the 42 players -- 15 from the Big Ten -- who are on the watch list for an honor given to the college game's top defensive player.

The Lott Trophy is named for former USC and NFL safety Ronnie Lott.

If the 6-foot-4, 200-pound Davis, an Arizona transfer, could pull this off, he would become the first UW player take home this piece of hardware.

The Huskies previously have shared in an Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award winner in defensive tackle Steve Emtman (both in 1991) and a Doak Walker Award recipient in running back Greg Lewis (1990).

They've also had a John Mackey Award winner in tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins (2013), a Paul Hornung Award winner in linebacker Shaq Thpmpson (2014) and an AP Comeback Player of the Year and Maxwell Award winner in quarterback Michael Penix Jr. (2022, 2023).

Yet no Lott honoree.

Another reason this would be a big deal for Davis -- previously a second-team All-Pac-12 and seocnd-team All-Big 12 pick -- is only two of the 21 Lott winners have been defensive backs, with one of them Colorado's Travis Hunter last season.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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