Former Minnesota Vikings Cameron Dantzler performed for the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats this season — and now he needs one other piece of the NFL.
Dantzler posted on X this week, “I do know I used to be immature and had some rising as much as do as a person and as a PRO. Me not being on a crew proper now’s loopy work tho🤦🏽♂️.”
The 26-year-old performed — slightly bit — for the New Orleans Saints in 2023, however New Orleans waived him on January 1st, 2024. He later latched onto the UFL’s San Antonio Brahmas and the aforementioned CFL membership.
Dantzler additionally tweeted Thursday, “Nonetheless younger and rising. Guess God needed me to get nearer to him this yr, which I really feel I’ve taken that step, however father God I’m able to play soccer once more.”
Right here’s his profession resume to this point:
Dantlzer has bounced like a pinball after leaving the Vikings. Minnesota waived Dantzler on March tenth, 2023. He was scooped off waivers quickly after by the Washington Commanders, who later stated sayonara to Dantzler in Could. On June seventh, the Buffalo Payments signed Dantzler to their 90-man roster, the place he’d presumably vie for an everyday season roster spot.
Seven weeks later, Buffalo waived Dantzler as effectively. Then, in the course of the NFL’s ultimate roster trimdowns in August, Dantzler was an odd man out in Houston with the Texans. An journey, certainly.
Dantzler confirmed numerous flashes of productiveness since coming into the NFL as a Third-Spherical draft decide in 2020 however completed three straight seasons with a whimper as a consequence of harm or in any other case. Dantzler fired up a praiseworthy 70.9 Pro Football Focus grade as a rookie, adopted by a good higher 73.8 rating in 2021. But, after getting injured midseason in 2022, Dantzler by no means appeared to get better and misplaced his beginning job.
Vikings followers and pundits knew the 2023 offseason would entail defensive change, however Dantzler wasn’t essentially on the record of possible cuts. He was cheap, younger, and possessed the “upside” label. Nonetheless, Minnesota parted methods with Dantzler, including newcomer CBs Byron Murphy, Mekhi Blackmon, and Joejuan Williams.
In 2022, Dantzler scored a game-sealing fumble restoration — which was actually simply Dantzler yanking a soccer away from former teammate Ihmir Smith-Marsette — over the Chicago Bears at U.S. Financial institution Stadium. It turned out to be his sweetest spotlight of the season and maybe his profession.
It’s value noting that Dantzler someway discovered the doghouse underneath two Vikings head coaches — Mike Zimmer in 2021 and Kevin O’Connell in 2022. Maybe he’s grown and can discover employment earlier than too lengthy.
On the entire, the person does have a degree — he ought to most likely be on some NFL crew’s observe squad.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his day by day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple crew, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as carefully because the NFL. All statistics offered by Pro Football Reference / Stathead; all contractual info offered by OverTheCap.com.
Ex-Viking Admits Immaturity, Desires Again in NFL
