Milk Carton All-Star of the Week.....8/7/2009

We here at Boom Roasted Sports are big fans of self-promotion. As you may or may not have heard, you can now find Gabe and I on Sportstalkbuzz.com as NFL bloggers for the Houston Texans and Seattle Seahawks, respectively. So, in honor of ourselves, we decided to dedicate America's favorite weekly glorification of obscurity to a memorable player for our respective teams. Since Gabe got the gig first, it was only fair that we decided to rep H-Town first:

The man you see before you is Houston Texans' all-time leading rusher Domanick Williams(formerly Domanick Davis.....more on that in a minute). Williams/Davis emerged on the scene in 2003 as a 4th round pick out of LSU. He became the first Houston Texan to rush for 1,000 yards in a season(an easy thing to do when the franchise was only a year old at the time) and was named the 2003 Pepsi Rookie of the Year(an online award voted on by the fans who are only slightly more biased than the sportswriters who vote on the official award, which, for those scoring at home, went to Cardinals wideout Anquan Boldin in 2003). He would follow up on his breakout rookie season(1, 400 total yards and 8 TDs) with an even more impressive 2004(Close to 1,800 total yards and 13 TDs). That led to a contract extension before the 2005 season. That season would be cut short by a knee injury 11 games in and Davis/Williams would never be heard from again. In 2006, despite clearence from Houston's physicians, Davis/Williams declared himself unable to play and sat out the season. A year later, he changed his name from Domanick Davis to Domanick Williams and then was released by Houston. Two years later, he would inevitably resurface with the Texans under the alias Steve Slaton.

So let's give it up for the man responsible for ending the Jonathan Wells Era in Houston....Domanick Davis or Williams or whatever he's called these days!