PHOENIX, AZ – After posting a record-breaking season from the quarterback position, Duke City Gladiators quarterback Nate Davis was named the Indoor Football League’s 2021 Offensive Player of the Year.
 
Davis led a phenomenal air assault all season long and set the IFL single-season passing touchdowns record (79). He capped the regular season off with a 57-45 win over the playoff-bound Bismarck Bucks, earning a postseason spot for the Gladiators in the meantime, Duke City’s first IFL playoff bid in the team’s first season in the IFL.
 
In the regular season, the gunslinger put together one of the more impressive seasons in league history.
Davis led the league in passing, completing 64.1 percent of his throws for 2,901 yards. He also had 33 rushes for 191 yards and seven touchdowns on the year.
 
Over the course of the season, Davis received four Offensive Player of the Week honors, which was the most in the league in 2021.
 
Davis continually came up clutch when his team needed it, including during a key Week 14 contest against the Spokane Shock. Davis showed that he is one of the most prolific passers in the IFL, completing 19-of-24 passes (79.2 percent) for 288 yards an IFL season-high eight passing touchdowns en route to a 68-61 win that helped bolster the team’s run for the playoffs.
 
That performance was only one of the eight games where Davis threw five or more touchdown passes and one of seven times that he threw for over 200 yards in a game during the 2021 regular season.
 
Undre Davis’s command, the Gladiators offense ended the season leading the IFL is points per game (52.6 PPG), total yards per game (248.6 YPG), and passing offense (206.4 YPG).
 
The IFL concludes the 2021 season on Sunday, September 12, when the top-seeded Arizona Rattlers host the second-seeded Massachusetts in the 2021 United Bowl. Kickoff from Footprint Center in Phoenix is 5:10 p.m. CT.