#84 Buster Davis | WR
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Position: WR College: Louisiana State Height: 6-1 Weight: 207 Age: 22 Experience: 2nd Season Acquired: Draft '07 Hometown: New Orleans, La. |
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Career StatsBuster Davis, the Chargers’ top pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, gained valuable experience as a rookie wide receiver and should only benefit for having a chance to work alongside a pair of proven veterans in Chris Chambers and Vincent Jackson. Davis, who played collegiately at LSU in one of the nation’s top football conferences, was unshaken as a rookie. He started his first-ever game on a Sunday Night against the three-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots and a week later caught his first-ever touchdown pass in Green Bay’s Lambeau Field.
A tireless worker, Davis spent the summer before his senior season at LSU running routes and catching passes from Peyton and Eli Manning at the annual ManningPassingAcademy in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Davis experienced many highs and lows during his collegiate career in Baton Rouge. The highs included winning a National Championship as a freshman in 2003; the ritual walk down “The Hill into LSU’s Tiger Stadium, and his first-ever live game action as a redshirt freshman in the ‘03 Southeastern Conference opener against Georgia.
The lows included enduring the destruction and devastation that ravaged the South when Hurricane Katrina hit just before his junior season was set to begin in 2005. Katrina forced the relocation of a home game against Arizona State, and it pushed back the Tigers’ next home game against Tennessee to a Monday night, a game that Davis will remember for the rest of his life. It was the first major sporting event in the state following the Hurricane.
He will also remember having 14 of his family members staying in his Baton Rouge apartment as their New Orleans’ homes were either badly damaged or destroyed. And following the devastation, Davis lent his time to the relief effort, unloading trucks and helping collect clothing donations at the school’s MaravichAssemblyCenter.
Davis’ hobbies include fishing, baseball, video games and watching old war movies.
TRANSACTION HISTORY: Selected by Chargers in first round (30) of NFL Draft, April 28, 2007.
2007: Made first-career start Week 2 at New England and helped keep third-quarter touchdown drive alive by drawing 37-yard pass interference penalty on 3rd-and-7 play…caught first-career touchdown pass (nine yards) in Lambeau Field on Sept. 23 against Green Bay Packers…TD catch helped Bolts get within three points (17-14) late in first half…helped extend first-quarter touchdown drive Week 6 vs. Oakland with 18-yard catch on 3rd-and-2 play…11-yard catch on third-and-eight play helped sustain TD drive on opening series of third quarter vs. Detroit Dec. 16…helped set up Chargers’ first touchdown in Jan. 13 AFC Divisional Playoffs at Indianapolis with 18-yard catch on third-and-eight play.
COLLEGE: Finished career as school’s seventh all-time leading receiver with 141 catches and 2,107 yards…only seventh player in school history to eclipse 2,000 career receiving yards…caught pass in 35-straight games to close out career…scored seven touchdowns as receiver and one on punt returns…second-team All-Southeastern Conference return specialist as senior…redshirted in 2002…played at LSU from 2003-06…arts and sciences major...led team in receiving as sophomore.
PERSONAL: Born in New Orleans, Louisiana…All-America wide receiver at Walker High School in New Orleans…also lined up at split end, quarterback, punter and place kicker as senior…caught 82 passes for 1,171 yards and 16 touchdowns in leading Walker to Class 4A state championship game as senior…runner up for state title as junior...also lettered in baseball.
