Davis Warren Matches Stanford's Interception-Free Streak Set by Another Davis

There's an odd bit of Stanford trivia buried in Davis Warren's first five starts with the Cardinal, and the record he matched belongs to another Davis.

Warren opened the 2026 season by throwing 167 consecutive passes without an interception, matching the program record set by Davis Mills in 2020. Warren's streak ended against Wake Forest on a ball that deflected off his intended receiver's foot and fell into a defender's hands.

Mills set the original mark during a shortened, pandemic-altered 2020 season, when he started five of Stanford's six games and threw for 1,508 yards and seven touchdowns against only three interceptions on the year. He went on to be a third-round NFL draft pick the following spring, landing with the Houston Texans. 

For Warren, who missed all of 2025 at Michigan recovering from a torn ACL, matching that number in his first season on The Farm says something about how well he's protected the football while adjusting to a new offense, a new conference and, for three of his five starts, a shorthanded roster around him.

The number is also a useful lens for how differently Warren's first five games have gone. He threw for 310 yards in the opener against Hawaii, followed that with a quieter 214-yard outing in a blowout loss to Miami, then found his rhythm in increasingly extreme fashion — 151 yards in a loss at Duke, a career-high 396 in the comeback win over Georgia Tech, and then just 136 passing yards in the 57-3 defeat at Wake Forest that finally produced the interception.

Across those five games, Stanford has not lost the turnover battle once this season, even as the win column hasn't cooperated.

Whether the clean streak matters more than the Cardinal's 2-3 record is a fair question, and it's one that gets tested again this week against a No. 3 Notre Dame team whose defense PFF ranks second nationally.

Nearly a five-game run without an interception from your quarterback, matching the best stretch any Stanford passer has managed in at least six seasons, is the kind of foundation a rebuilding program usually has to search a while to find. The goal now will be for the program to build something with that security. 

If Warren can start a new streak Saturday, it will say as much about his ability to protect the football under pressure as the original one did.