His new defensive coordinator?
“We're going to depend on Thomas as much as we ever have,” Eric Washington said Monday.
That doesn’t necessarily mean Davis, who turns 35 in March, will continue to start and play every snap each week.
“Physically how we deploy him and Shaq (Thompson), that's yet to be determined,” Washington continued, “but Thomas is important to us now, in my opinion, as much as he's ever been.”
Davis ended up in his third consecutive Pro Bowl but admittedly had a down year in 2017. Plagued by injuries, he made fewer than 100 tackles (76) for the first time since 2011 and played his fewest snaps (791) in six seasons.