Former Minnesota Vikings Cameron Dantzler performed for the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats this season — and now he desires 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 could be loopy work tho🤦🏽♂️.”
The 26-year-old performed — just a little 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 thus far:
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 mentioned 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 nicely. 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 getting into the NFL as a Third-Spherical draft choose 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 well 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 one way or the other discovered the doghouse beneath 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 some extent — he ought to most likely be on some NFL crew’s apply squad.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his every day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options company, 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 supplied by Pro Football Reference / Stathead; all contractual data supplied by OverTheCap.com.
Ex-Viking Admits Immaturity, Desires Again in NFL
