Faulkner University

Cadron Davis begins his second season as defensive line coach and special teams coordinator for Faulkner football.

Seven of his linemen tallied double-digit tackles in 2021. Additionally, he worked with returning Second Team All Mid-South Conference Appalachian Division punter Caden Davis, enabling the latter to average 37.64 yards on 45 punts and place 18 inside the 20-yard line. The redshirt sophomore earned three Appalachian Special Teams Player of the Year awards throughout the course of the season. Under Cadron Davis’s guidance, placekicker Alvin Renteria finished his career with a 72% field goal percentage, placing him second in program history in that category as well as all-time scoring. Renteria earned all-conference votes each season from 2018-21, and first team votes for the first three of those years. 

Davis’s first stop in the world of coaching came seven years after he finished college, working as an assistant coach at Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, during the 2014-15 school year. In May 2015, he took an opportunity to go to the NCAA Division I level, working as an intern with the strength and conditioning coach at Eastern Michigan University. He served as a volunteer coach for the defensive backs, and trained six future NFL players. 

After three months in Michigan, he headed to the Deep South after accepting a job as assistant strength and conditioning coach and assistant specialists coach at Valdosta State University in Georgia. The VSU special teams units finished ranked second in kickoff coverage and third in punting that season, and the Blazers advanced as far as the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs. 

In January 2016, Davis went back to Kansas to fill four positions at Independence Community College: special teams coordinator, linebackers coach, head strength and conditioning coach and recruiting coordinator. That August, he went to Abilene Christian University to intern as a defensive and quality control analyst, working with the secondary and defensive line for the 2016 season. From there, he coached linebackers and briefly worked with offensive skill position players at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City from 2017 to April 2021. 

The Texas native played collegiately from 2004-07 at Ottawa University in Kansas, where he lettered for three years. He has been married to the former Sherry McDaniel since August 2013.