Chargers cornerback Michael Davis signed his restricted free agent tender on Wednesday. Davis will earn roughly $3.3 million in 2020 on a one-year deal, according to ESPN’s Field Yates.
Davis was able to negotiate with other teams, but did not generate much interest given the tender (second-round).
Had a team signed him to an offer sheet, the Chargers would have had the rights of first refusal and would have received a second-round pick from the signing team if they declined to match the offer.
Davis signed as an undrafted free agent in 2017. He’s appeared in 43 games over the course of the past three seasons with 21 of them being starts. Since then, he’s totaled 107 tackles, 18 passes defensed and two interceptions.
The former BYU product earned the Week 1 starting job in 2019, but he was limited to 12 games after missing two of them due to an injury and the other pair due to a suspension after he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
With Davis back in the mix for at least one more season, he will likely enter the upcoming season as the starter opposite of Casey Hayward (barring any early draft pick at the position) in a loaded secondary that now features four-time Pro Bowler Chris Harris Jr.