Vernon Davis’ maturity echoes 49ers success

The young Vernon Davis once looked up to the likelihoods of Steve Smith and Chad Johnson, thinking that demanding for the ball wasn’t simply the best, but the only route that he had to take in order to shine in the NFL. The seventh-year tight end has called his own hot-route and completely adjusted his mentality. As the team was winning and having success, I’d probably have been the one complaining,” Davis said Thursday as he sat in a small office at the 49ers’ training facility, where he and his teammates were preparing for the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance in 18 years . “I would have probably been in the media, making a scene, going to the coach and just being a cancer to the team. According to MIchael Silver of Yahoo! Sports, Davis has “undergone a dramatic attitude adjustment.”  From rich in selfishness, an issue former coach Mike Singletary called out his tight end for, to poor in spirit, Davis has showcased his humility by not complaining about his six receptions for...