
11-12-2008, 06:19 AM
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Andra Davis ready for 100th game, but his Browns future is in doubt
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
BY STEVE DOERSCHUK
STEVE.DOERSCHUK@CANTONREP.COM
The little girl in the family section of Cleveland Browns Stadium gets taller and taller.
But her time to pick out her daddy running in his orange helmet and No. 54 jersey grows shorter and shorter.
Alisha Davis was 16 months old when Andra Davis was a fifth-round draft choice of the 2002 Cleveland Browns. Her mother, Monique, took her to games from the start, and they still go ? until Ohio autumns frost the toes.
On Dec. 1, Alisha turns 8. Daddy will hit the big 3-0 two days before Christmas. They might not see another Fourth of July in Ohio.
Time flies by like Dawg years. Andra Davis has gone from Browns rookie to second-oldest player on the defense after Willie McGinest.
There are seven games left in Davis' contract year. Things are not going well for the team, and changes are on the way.
The handful of Browns who have been around as long as Davis all dress at the end of the locker room near the back door.
"The only guys who were here when I got here," said Davis, glancing to three nearby lockers, "were Steve Heiden ... Phil Dawson ... Ryan Tucker."
Davis is preparing for his 100th game as a Brown, a Monday nighter at Buffalo.
He and Monique have watched Alisha grow into a school kid and added two more daughters. A few years ago, they made Ohio their full-time residence after spending previous offseasons in their native Florida.
But now his contract is up at a time when starters his age who are not stars scrap for their future.
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