PRONUNCIATION
2025 | SENIOR SEASON
Appeared in four games as a receiver and kick returner ... Rushed twice for one yard while catching eight passes for 54 yards ... Returned three kickoffs for 87 yards with a long of 38 yards ... Averaged 6.8 yards per reception and 29.0 yards per kick return ... Made his debut in the season opener at UAlbany with one rush and one reception for six yards ... Posted season-best three catches for 25 yards at Yale (Sept. 27) including four kick returns for 54 yards ... Added two receptions for eight yards against Brown (Oct. 25) along with two kickoff returns for 49 yards ... Concluded with two catches for 15 yards and one kickoff return for 38 yards against Princeton (Nov. 1).
2024 | JUNIOR SEASON
Did not see action due to injury
2023 | SOPHOMORE SEASON
Finished third on the team with 31 catches and second with 458 yards… had two receiving touchdowns… led Cornell with 102 kick return yards on nine attempts… had 136 punt return yards on 6 attempts
2022 I FRESHMAN SEASON
Second team All-Ivy League pick as a return specialist ... was one of just three players in the Ivy League with a kickoff return touchdown ... gifted Cornell the go-ahead score against Dartmouth late in the third quarter with an electric 91-yard kickoff return for a touchdown ... was the first Cornell kickoff return touchdown since Rashad Campbell took a kick back 78 yards at Princeton on Oct. 29, 2011 ... averaged 39.0 yards on three kickoffs ... did not have a chance to return a kickoff after the return vs. Dartmouth ... took over as primary punt returner in final game ... also caught seven passes for 35 yards ... saw action in all 10 contests.
PRIOR TO CORNELL
Kiser was a four-year varsity wide receiver that helped Cardinal Gibbons HS to back-to-back state championships in 2020 and 2021 … was awarded first-team all-league honors in 2021 … named a team captain his senior year … was a four-year track runner, setting both the 100- and 200-meter school records his senior spring … awarded first-team honors in 2021 and 2022 for his performance on the track.
PERSONAL
Davon R. Kiser is the son of Tasha Abrams and Roosevelt Kiser and has a younger brother and sister … his father played football at Florida A&M, ranking in the top 10 in school history for career receiving yards, and proceeded to play a year in the NFL for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2007 … he is enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
