Vernon Davis (born January 31, 1984) is a former tight end in the National Football League. Davis was traded to the Denver Broncos in 2015, and he helped the club win Super Bowl 50 over the Carolina Panthers. In 2016, he signed with the Washington Redskins, where he remained until his retirement at the end of the 2019 season. A first-round pick of the San Francisco 49ers in the 2007 NFL Draft, Davis played his entire career up until that point with the VIons. Before the start of the 2015 season, it was announced by the team that Davis would be suspended for the first four games of that season for using performance-enhancing drugs. He had previously been suspended for the first three games of the 2014 season for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Davis has been criticized for not playing well before his suspensions, but he still managed to catch 91 passes for 1,247 yards and nine touchdowns in those five seasons. The most impressive statistic is that he did this while being targeted an average of more than 10 times per game. This shows that even when not playing at his best, Davis still proved to be one of the top receivers in the NFL. It's safe to say that Vernon Davis won't be winning any awards for good play during his suspension, but that doesn't matter to him or the team. What does matter is that Davis put himself in the record books as one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history.