Yonus Davis

Last updated
Yonus Davis
Born: (1984-07-21) July 21, 1984 (age 39)
Oakland, California
Career information
StatusActive
CFL status American
Position(s) RB/KR
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight185 lb (84 kg)
College San Jose State
High school Skyline (Oakland, California)
Career history
As player
2010 BC Lions
Career highlights and awards

Yonus Ramon Davis (born July 21, 1984) is an American football running back and kick returner. A native of Oakland, California, he played college football in San Jose State University and signed as a free agent to the BC Lions in 2010. The Lions cut Davis in 2011 after Davis was arrested in California for attempting to sell ecstasy, and Davis served 13 months in U.S. federal prison from 2013 to 2014.

Contents

High school and college

Born in Oakland, California, Davis attended Skyline High School. His first name "Yonus" means "Greek King". [1] In 2002, the San Francisco Chronicle selected Davis as "Player of the Year" for Alameda County. Cal-Hi Sports named Davis a second-team all-state selection. During his junior season, Davis returned four punts and two kickoffs for two touchdowns. As a senior, Davis rushed for 1,208 yards and 16 touchdowns, intercepted four passes, and returned two punts and two kickoffs. [1]

At San Jose State University, Davis played for the San Jose State Spartans from 2003 to 2008 and redshirted the 2004 season after playing two games. Rushing 1,007 yards on 163 carries in 2006, Davis became the first Spartan since 2000 to rush more than 1,000 yards in one season. He also became the first Spartan running back to average more than 6.0 yards per carry in consecutive seasons. In 2008, Davis played as a fifth-year senior due to a hardship exemption. [1] Davis played 10 games in 2008 with 558 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns. [2] In December 2008, Davis graduated from San Jose State with a B.A. in sociology with an emphasis in criminology. [3]

CFL career

BC Lions

After taking the 2009 season off, Davis signed as a free agent with the Lions on January 20, 2010. [4] Wearing jersey #32, [5] Davis debuted with the Lions on July 30 in a game against the Edmonton Eskimos with an 88-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. In a 37–13 loss on August 12 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Davis scored the only touchdown for BC on a 51-yard rush, had 84 rushing yards on three carries overall, and returned five kickoffs for 133 yards. Because of this, Mike Beamish of The Vancouver Sun wrote that Davis "could be the Lions' most exciting runner/returner since Stefan Logan." [6] On September 25, Davis returned punts for 244 yards in a 29–10 victory over the Calgary Stampeders, and the CFL named Davis special teams player of the week. Over three games in August, Davis tallied 497 total return yards and was named special teams player of the month for August 2010.

Davis had another 88-yard touchdown from a punt return in the October 31 game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. [7]

Yonus Davis played in 14 games with 2 starts during the 2010 CFL season for the BC Lions. He finished the year with 1,897 all-purpose yards and 7 touchdowns. [8] [9]

Drug arrest and conviction

On April 9, 2011, Davis was arrested in California after 27 kilograms (59.5 lbs) of ecstasy was delivered to a home he was renting. He was charged with one felony count of attempting to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Davis was released upon posting US$150,000 bail.

On May 3, 2011, the Lions announced they had terminated Davis' contract as a result of the charges. "We are not passing judgment on anybody," Lions General Manager Wally Buono told a news conference at the team's training facility. "But obviously the association and the implication is not something we as an organization, as a league, that we want to be involved with. We are severing ties for that reason." [10]

On February 2, 2012, Yonus Davis pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal District Court (docket 11-CR-00237-DLJ) in San Jose, California to a charge of importing ecstasy in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 952, 960(a)(1), and 960(b)(3), as well as aiding and abetting others in that crime.

Federal judge D. Lowell Jensen sentenced Davis to 33 months in prison on February 7, 2013, with incentive of drug program. [11] Davis was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island on March 19, 2014, and his parole ended on September 19, 2014. [12] [13]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geroy Simon</span> American gridiron football player and executive (born 1975)

Geroy Simon is the assistant general manager for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is also a former professional Canadian football slotback who played in 15 seasons in the CFL, twelve of them with the BC Lions. Simon won the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award in 2006 while also winning three Grey Cup championships; with the BC Lions in 2006 and 2011 and with Saskatchewan in 2013. As of the 2013 CFL season, Simon is the all-time career leader in CFL receiving yards with 16,352 yards, second in pass receptions with 1,029 and third in touchdown receptions with 103.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arland Bruce III</span> American gridiron football player (born 1977)

Arland Richard Bruce III is a former Canadian football wide receiver. He is a two-time Grey Cup champion, having won in 2004 with the Toronto Argonauts and in 2011 with the Lions. He has played 10 seasons in the CFL with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and BC Lions. During the 2011 season, he became the 14th CFL receiver to record over 10,000 yards receiving in a career.

Antonio Warren is a former Canadian Football League running back who played with the BC Lions and the Calgary Stampeders.

Fred Otis Holmes Amey is a former professional American and Canadian football wide receiver. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Sacramento State University.

Victor Arnold Washington was an American professional football player who was a running back and kick returner in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and National Football League (NFL). After attending the University of Wyoming, he played nine professional seasons, three in the CFL and six in the NFL.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jamal Robertson</span> American gridiron football player (born 1977)

Jamal Robertson is a former American and Canadian football running back and kick returner. He played college football at Ohio Northern and played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2001 to 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bret Anderson</span> Canadian football player (born 1974)

Bret Anderson is a former Canadian football placekicker and slotback who played his entire career for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stefan Logan</span> American gridiron football player (born 1981)

Stefan Logan is a podcast host for ProSportsExtra and former American professional gridiron football player who played as a running back and special teamer in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Miami Dolphins of the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at the University of South Dakota. Logan has also played for the BC Lions, Montreal Alouettes, and Ottawa Redblacks in the CFL, and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions of the NFL. Logan has gained fame on social media as he has promoted his wife's battle with cancer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jock Sanders</span> American gridiron football player (born 1988)

Jock Sanders is a former American professional gridiron football slotback and running back. He has played for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 2011 before joining the BC Lions practice squad. He played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. He signed a contract extension with the Calgary Stampeders on February 4, 2015, and was released on June 14, 2015. He played college football at West Virginia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stu Foord</span> Canadian football player

Stu Foord is a former Canadian football running back. He was originally signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders as an undrafted free agent in 2008. Before joining the Roughriders, Foord played five years for the Regina Thunder of the Prairie Football Conference.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rob Bagg</span> Canadian football player

Rob Bagg is a retired professional Canadian football wide receiver. He played 11 seasons for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2008 to 2018. He is a member of the 101st Grey Cup winning team and was named a West Division All-Star in 2014. Bagg played CIS football for the Queen's Gaels football team.

The following is a list of Saskatchewan Roughriders all-time records and statistics current to the 2023 CFL season. Each category lists the top five players, where known, except for when the fifth place player is tied in which case all players with the same number are listed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marco Iannuzzi</span> Canadian football player (born 1987)

Marco Iannuzzi is a retired Canadian football wide receiver for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is an official Canadian honour recipient of Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers presented by the Governor General of Canada and is also a Harvard graduate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cody Fajardo</span> American gridiron football player (born 1992)

Cody Michael Fajardo is an American professional football quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Neal Beaumont is a former award winning and Grey Cup champion defensive back and punter who played in the Canadian Football League for the BC Lions from 1960 to 1967.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ronnie Yell</span> American gridiron football player (born 1991)

Ronald Irving Yell is an American football defensive back who is currently a free agent. The last team he played for was the Toronto Argonauts. Yell played college football at San Jose State and began his professional football career in 2013 with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He then joined the BC Lions late in the 2013 season.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brandon Rutley</span> American gridiron football player (born 1989)

Brandon DiAundre Rutley is a former Canadian football running back. He played college football at San Jose State. He was a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Montreal Alouettes, and BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Shaquille "Shaq" Murray-Lawrence is a professional Canadian football running back and kickoff returner who is a free agent. He is also a member of the Canadian National Bobsled Team as a brakeman. He was a member of Team Canada at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Murray-Lawrence has also been a member of the BC Lions, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Montreal Alouettes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kienan LaFrance</span> Canadian gridiron football player (born 1991)

Kienan LaFrance is a professional Canadian football running back for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He made his professional debut for the Ottawa Redblacks, where he won the 104th Grey Cup in 2016, and has also been a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Christion Jones is a former Canadian football kick returner and running back. Jones played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Alabama.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Yonus Davis". San Jose State Spartans. Archived from the original on March 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Yonus Davis College Stats | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ "2009 San Jose State University Commencement Student-Athlete Participation" (PDF). San Jose State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Transactions - Off Season 2009-10". CFL. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Yonus Davis". CFL. Archived from the original on August 25, 2011.
  6. ↑ Beamish, Mike (August 26, 2010). "Yonus Davis a lonely bright spot for Lions". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Lions use special teams to beat Riders, stay in playoff race". TSN.ca. The Canadian Press. November 1, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Team Stats Summary (Regular Season 2010)" (PDF). BC Lions. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2012. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  9. ↑ "BC Lions Player Roster for the 2010 Season". CFLDB. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ "B.C. Lions cut ties with KR Davis over drug arrest". TSN.ca. TheCanadian Press. May 3, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ Mintz, Howard (February 8, 2013). "Ex-San Jose State football star sentenced to prison for having 67 pounds of Ecstasy". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  12. ↑ Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, register number 15707-111.
  13. ↑ Beamish, Mike (August 2, 2014). "After doing prison time, Yonus Davis seeks a second chance in CFL". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.