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The 49ers Send a 2026 7th Round Pick to Houston for DT Khalil Davis

The 49ers definitely needed an additional defensive tackle and Davis certainly is one.

Grant Cohn

Sep 29, 2024; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Texans defensive tackle Khalil Davis (94) during the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images
Sep 29, 2024; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Texans defensive tackle Khalil Davis (94) during the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images / Troy Taormina-Imagn Images
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The 49ers didn't make a big move at the trade deadline, but they did trade for a defensive tackle you probably haven't heard of.

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, the 49ers traded a seventh-round pick in 2026 to the Houston Texans in exchange for veteran defensive tackle Khalil Davis, not to be confused with defensive tackle Kalia Davis who already plays for the 49ers.

Khalil Davis originally was a sixth-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2020. In 2023, he spent time on the Birmingham Stallions before signing with the Texans. He has appeared in 27 NFL games in his career and has three sacks including one this season.

The 49ers definitely needed an additional defensive tackle and Davis certainly is one. Of course, he isn't a particularly good one, but at least he can play while Javon Hargrave is on Injured Reserve with a torn triceps.

The 49ers clearly feel that their big splash at the trade deadline will be the return of Christian McCaffrey. And he certainly could carry them back to the Super Bowl after missing the first half of the season with bilateral Achilles tendonitis. But it seems unlikely that he'll have a big workload in his first game back this Sunday against the Buccaneers.

And that's a game the 49ers could lose. Tampa just played the Chiefs a whole lot tougher than the 49ers did a couple weeks ago. It will be interesting to see if Davis makes an impact in that game.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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