West Virginia University Athletics

Davis Velilla joined the Mountaineer football program as an assistant director of scouting in August 2023.

Velilla assists in the evaluation of the WVU roster as well as opponent rosters to identify strengths and weaknesses for each game. He is involved in the creation of weekly advance scouting reports on each opponent and assists in the game plan creation.

His job also entails complex scouting of the transfer portal to identify potential roster additions, helping to maintain WVU’s scouting services and database, while working with the student assistant scouting interns.

Velilla came to West Virginia from the East-West Shrine Bowl where he spent the 2022 football season as an AAC Conference Scout Intern. He analyzed video, discovering and evaluating talent, strengths and weaknesses. Velilla traveled throughout the AAC, ACC and SEC observing and assessing players on-field, while cultivating successful rapport with various university’s recruiting and coaching staffs.

He also spent time as a student manager for SMU football and equipment, scouted for the National Scouting Report and worked as a training camp staff intern for the Kansas City Chiefs.

While at SMU, he earned his master’s degree in sport management in 2022.

Velilla graduated from Clemson in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in parks, recreation and tourism management with a concentration in community recreation sport and camp management. As an undergraduate at Clemson, Velilla spent time as a co-ed cheerleader.