Domanick Williams
American football player (born 1980)
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Domanick Williams (né Davis; October 1, 1980), known during the majority of his playing career as Domanick Davis, is an American former professional football player who was a running back for three seasons with the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for four seasons with the LSU Tigers.
Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
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| Position | Running back | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | October 1, 1980 Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 221 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | Breaux Bridge (LA) | ||||||||||||||
| College | LSU | ||||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 2003: 4th round, 101st overall pick | ||||||||||||||
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Career
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |
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| 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | 213 lb (97 kg) | 30 in (0.76 m) | 9 in (0.23 m) | 4.63 s | 1.63 s | 2.72 s | 4.47 s | 7.32 s | 32+1⁄2 in (0.83 m) | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) | 22 reps | |
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Davis played college football for the LSU Tigers. In his four-year career there, he rushed for 2056 yards and 20 touchdowns,[2] including four touchdowns in the 2002 Sugar Bowl.[3]
Davis was drafted by Houston in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL draft.[4] He was named the 2003 Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Year, an award created in 2002, in which fans vote online from a pool of five candidates to determine the winner. He rushed for 1,000+ yards in his first two seasons in the NFL (2003 and 2004) while scoring 22 touchdowns. As a result, he received a contract extension before the start of the 2005 season. Prior to the extension, Davis was scheduled to make $385,000 in 2005. The extension called for a payout of $22 million over the life of the deal, with $8 million in guaranteed money.[5]
In 2005, Davis rushed for 976 yards in the first 11 games before suffering a knee injury and being placed on injured reserve. He did not play during the 2006 season, and was released by the Texans on March 22, 2007.[6]
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Personal life
He changed his surname from Davis to Williams in late 2006.[7]
(on changing his name from Domanick Davis) “And it will be number 31, Domanick Williams. I just had to make a change. I wasn’t really a Davis the whole time, but I have kids of my own and I needed to do what was right.”
(more on the name change) “I just changed Davis to Williams. I wasn’t really a (Davis). It was my older brother’s Dad’s last name and whatever happened I ended up with Davis. So now that I have kids of my own, a little boy and a little girl, ‘Spike’ (Domanick, Jr.) and Lina, I have to change my name to what it really is, and it’s Williams.”
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