After starting a combined 17 games in his first two years with the Minnesota Vikings, cornerback Cameron Dantzler last appeared in a matchup for the purple and gold back in Week 17 of the 2022 season.
Following that 2022 campaign, Dantzler was cut by the Vikings, and after that, he had short stints with several teams around the NFL, including the Washington Commanders, Buffalo Bills, Houston Texans, and New Orleans Saints.
Now, the former Minnesota draft pick is attempting to get his football career back on track, as he has reportedly signed a contract to play for the Memphis Showboats in the upcoming 2025 UFL season, according to PFNewsroom.com's James Larsen.
Minnesota Vikings tenure was marred by mistakes for Cameron Dantzler
Dantzler first gained notoriety with the Vikings during his rookie year after looking very impressive in training camp where he had to go up against receivers like Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen every day.
That summer performance was enough to convince Minnesota to make him a Week 1 starter in 2020, but that turned out to be the high point of the cornerback's career in purple.
Instead, Dantzler's tenure with the Vikings featured a number of moments that he'd rather people forget, like getting yelled at on national television by Harrison Smith in 2020 and giving up the game-winning touchdown to a winless Detroit Lions team in 2021.
But at 26-years-old, Dantzler still has a chance to make it back into the NFL if he can make the most of his new opportunity in the UFL during the next few months.
This won't be his first time in the UFL, as the former Minnesota third-round draft pick joined the San Antonio Brahmas for a very brief six-day stint. Most recently, Dantzler spent a few weeks up north in the CFL as a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
The Vikings clearly felt the cornerback had enough potential to use a third-round pick on him in the 2020 NFL Draft. Unfortunately, it wasn't able to work out for Dantzler in Minnesota, and now, his new opportunity with the Showboats seems like it could potentially be one of his final chances to salvage his pro football career.