The San Diego Strike Force has re-signed veteran indoor football quarterback Nate Davis to its 2024 roster. Davis was traded to San Diego by way of Duke City (Albuquerque) in Week 6 of the 2023 Indoor Football League season.
The Strike Force will open the 2024 season on the road against the Duke Gladiators before hosting the San Antonio Gunslingers for their home opener at Pechanga Arena on Monday, April 1.
At the end of 10 games in 2023, Davis finished the season ranked seventh in total passing yards while leading the league in average passing yards per game (212). His 48 touchdown passes were tied for second in the IFL – matching Lorenzo Brown of Sioux Falls who played in 18 total games and trailing Dalton Sneed (Bay Area), Anthony Russo (Massachusetts), and Hilliard (Quad City) who all threw for 49 touchdowns while playing in at least four more games than Davis.
“I’ve never been around a quarterback who loves to game plan as much as he [Nate] does,” said Genuser. “He’s been around the indoor game for a long time, he’s thrown a lot of touchdowns, and he’s going to allow us to compete in every game.”
Davis has created a 12-year career for himself in the indoor football game. After being drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2009, where he spent two seasons, he went on to spend time with the Seattle Seahawks, and Indianapolis Colts.
In 2012, he got his first taste of arena and indoor football and then the next eight seasons with seven of them being in Amarillo. He won back-to-back Lone Star Bowl Championships (2012, 2013) and was named LSFL Co-Offensive MVP in 2013. During the 2017 season while the team was a member of the CIF, he received First Team Conference honors.
Davis joined the Duke City Gladiators in 2020 as the franchise embarked on its first season as a member of the Indoor Football League. He went on to earn 2021 Offensive Player of the Year and First Team All-IFL honors while throwing an Indoor Football League single-season record 79 touchdowns.
During his collegiate career at Ball State (Ohio), Davis started all three seasons before forgoing his senior season for the 2009 NFL draft. In those three seasons, he threw for 9,233 passing yards and 74 touchdowns (he also added 10 rushing and one receiving touchdown).
