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Davis Price
Davis Price
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Davis Price
Jersey Number 49

Davis Price

  • Position:
    Placekicker
  • Height:
    6-2
  • Weight:
    195
  • Class:
    Junior
  • Hometown:
    Evergreen, Colo.
  • High School:
    Evergreen
Updated Nov. 30, 2019

AT COLORADO
Career:
  • Has played in 38 games between placekicking, kicking off and punting, of which all of the latter came his junior season.
  • Has kicked off 150 times in his career, with just 58 returned (86 touchbacks, five fair caught).
 
This Season (Sr.):
  • Has played in six games this season, handling some or all of the kickoff duties in all six games.
  • He was named a special teams player of the game for the Washington game.
  • Three of his four kickoffs were for touchbacks against Stanford, with the one return for just four yards. 
  • Had three kickoffs against UCLA, two for touchbacks and one on-sides attempt.
  • Had two kickoffs for 130 yards (65.0 average) and both were touchbacks against USC.
  • Recorded one kickoff for 65 yards against Arizona State that resulted in a touchback.
  • Dressed but did not play against Nebraska and Air Force.
  • Played against Colorado State, kicking off five times with one touchback and three kicks returned.
  • Averaged 40.5 yards on eight kicks in the two scrimmages and spring game.
  • In the spring game he averaged 45.6 yards per punt with one inside the 20 and was 4-of-5 on PATs.  
2018 (Jr.)—Saw action in 12 games … Handled kickoff duties all season: of 60 kickoffs, 34 were not returned and 19 were kicked through the end zone … Of the 22 that were returned, eight were stopped inside the 20 and 13 inside the 25 and the average starting position on those drives was the 22-yard line … Had his role expand significantly after the injury to Alex Kinney in the second week of the season and became the starting punter … Punted in eight games and on 48 punts, averaged 38.38 yards with a long of 58 … His yards per punt ranked ninth in the Pac-12 and 97th nationally … He pinned 20 punts inside the 20 and 24 were fair caught … He had three punts of 50-plus yards and his net average was 36.8 yards … Also attempted one field goal, a 53-yarder that was just short.

2017 (Soph.)—Handled all but one of the teams 65 kickoffs on the year … 26 of his kickoffs went through or over the end zone and he had 40 touchbacks on the year … Recorded one assisted tackle … Saw 10 of his first 12 kickoffs to start the season go for touchbacks (and one of those that wasn't a touchback came from the 20 after a penalty and CU's coverage team tackled the returner at the 17-yard line) … Opposing teams’ average starting field position after kickoffs was 19.92.

2016 (Fr.)—He saw action in eight games after giving up a potential redshirt year due to injuries ... Was 4-of-6 on field goal tries, connected on 26-of-27 PATs and scored 38 points … Also kicked off a total of 14 times, five of which went for touchbacks … Saw his first career action at Oregon, becoming the fourth true freshmen to play at CU on the year … Had six kickoffs in the Oregon victory with one touchback and the Ducks only averaged 19.4 yards per return on his kickoffs … The very next weekend against Oregon State he made his first career field goal attempt from 54 yards, a kick that was the longest in the nation in 2016 by a freshman as well as the CU record for the longest field goal made by a freshman and a first-ever field goal made (any class) … For his efforts in the game, where he successfully connected on all five PAT attempts and two field goals (the other was from 22 yards), he was named the Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week (the first time since 2011 that a Buff received conference special teams player of the week honors) … The next week at USC he connected on a 42-yard field goal with 4:49 left in the fourth quarter to pull the Buffs within four, 21-17 … A recruited walk-on, he joined the team for summer workouts in June and was pressed into duty the fourth game of the season due to the season-ending injury to Diego Gonzalez.
 
HIGH SCHOOL—He earned first-team All-State honors at both placekicker and punter as a junior and senior, as well as earning first-team All-Metro North League honor both seasons (kicker; at punter, he was first-team as a senior and second-team as a junior) …  As a senior, he converted 37-of-38 extra points and 12-of-17 field goals (long of 47), scoring 73 total points; he saw 55 of his 63 kickoffs go for touchbacks (87.3 percent), with his first 27 going into the end zone or beyond before one was returned … Averaged 34.3 yards for 32 punts (long of 51), with 10 inside-the-20 ... As a junior, he was 52-of-53 on PAT kicks and 12-of-19 on field goal tries (long of 44), scoring 88 total points … He kicked off 75 times, 39 going for touchbacks (52 percent) and owned a 33.6 average for 26 punts (52 long, 12 inside-the-20) … Saw spot duty as a sophomore, with 10 of 26 kickoffs going for touchbacks and punted twice … Overall, he scored 161 points (89-of-91 PAT, 24-of-36 FG), and saw 63 percent of his kickoffs earn touchbacks (104 of 164) … Top games: as a senior, he scored 16 points in a 40-8 win over Holy Family (4-of-4 on extra points, 4-of-4 field goals including his career long kick of 47 yards); in a 48-7 win over Weld Central, he scored 12 points (6-6 PAT, 2-2 FG) and also had all eight of his kickoffs go for touchbacks … As a junior in a 39-22 win over Northridge, he scored 13 points (4-4 PAT, 3-4 FG) and he also had 13 in a 55-14 win over Thomas Jefferson (7-7 PAT, 2-2 FG) … Under coach Rob Molhom, EHS was 9-3 his senior year, 11-1 his junior season and 8-3 his sophomore campaign; they were the Metro North champions twice and the Metro West titlists as a sophomore (16-0 in conference play those three years combined) … He also lettered in rugby (flyhalf), earning first-team All-State honors in leading Evergreen to the 2014 state title, and in baseball (second base) … He was inducted into Evergreen’s High School Hall of Fame his senior year.
 
ACADEMICS—He is majoring in Journalism at Colorado while also seeking a Business minor … He was named to the National Football Foundation's 2016 Hampshire Honor Society honorable mention team, which rewards those student-athletes who have in excess of a 3.2 grade point average … Earned honorable mention Academic All-Colorado honors from the state’s chapter of the National Football Foundation is both a freshman and sophomore … An Honor Roll student in high school, he earned first-team Academic All-State honors as a junior (and honorable mention honors as a senior).
 
PERSONAL—He was born December 29, 1997 in Denver ... Hobbies include fishing, skiing and golfing … His mother (Kerri) ran track at Long Beach State and ran the 800-meter run in the Olympic Trials; his father (Doug) is a pilot for United Airlines and has manned two of team’s charter flights with Davis on board … Younger brother, Evan, is a sophomore placekicker for the Buffs … He was presented with the Bahai Award for his work as a leader with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
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