Vernon Davis

Vernon Davis is a reminder of how the tight end position evolved into something almost positionless. At 191 cm with rare speed, he was a matchup nightmare, too fast for linebackers and too big for safeties. Coming out of Dunbar High in D.C. and going sixth overall to the 49ers in 2006, he carried real expectations and largely delivered as one of the athletic prototypes that reshaped the role. I appreciate players who force defenses to invent answers for them, and Davis was exactly that kind of problem. His blend of size and burst is the sort of thing that makes football fun to watch even casually.

Name (English)

Vernon Davis

Name (Japanese)

バーノン・デービス

Reading

ばーのん・でーびす

Born

January 31, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Height

191 cm

Occupation

American football player

High school

Dunbar High School

• Official sitehttp://www.vernondavis.com/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%20Davis
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1972672

Tags

• American football player

Last updated

2026-06-17

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