Saints linebacker Places Spotlight On Prayer After Daughter Suffers Seizure

Davis, a practicing Christian, was drafted by the New York Jets in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft and played college football at Arkansas State. Davis’ mother gave birth to him when she was just 16 and his father was a career enlisted soldier in the U.S. Army. Davis joined the Saints in 2018 and was named to the Pro Bowl last season for the first time.

Davis said while his wife Tamela rode in the ambulance with Carly-Faith, he drove behind to the hospital. Carly-Faith is the same daughter who had survived a rare form of cancer called retinoblastoma when she was 10-months old.

Once there, Davis said, “we prayed and we prayed and she had medicine, and my wife and I had to stay overnight at the hospital. In the middle of the night, probably about 3 o’clock, I heard a knock. And the knock was my daughter. I said, ‘God, let this be just be an attack from the enemy that’s just trying to be a distraction, and let him have overplayed his hand and my daughter come back stronger…