mmqb.si.com: What It's Like to Make the Cut (Zach Line)

[PonyPride]

What It’s Like to Make the Cut

For Zach Line, the news that he’s a Viking came on Saturday, with a phone that didn’t ring. He could be starting alongside Adrian Peterson in the season opener—but it’ll be three more weeks before he knows if the dream will last

By Jenny Vrentas

Zach Line didn’t pack up his room at the extended-stay hotel in Eden Prairie, Minn., Thursday night after the Vikings’ final preseason game. He left his belongings—one pair of shoes, and all the clothes that would fit in one rollaboard suitcase and a duffel bag—right where they had been for the past two weeks.

“If I got cut, I’d come back and pack it,” Line says. “I just wasn’t very prepared to be cut. I didn’t want to be cut, so I wasn’t going to get ready to have to do that.”

You know what else Line did? He made other plans for cut-down weekend besides being cut. At 6 a.m. Friday, he took a flight to Dallas, where his alma mater, Southern Methodist—and his younger brother, Prescott Line, a redshirt freshman running back—opened its season against Texas Tech later that night.

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[Otto]

Great story. I really hope he sticks on their roster, because if they try to slide him through waivers to get him to the practice squad, someone will steal him.

[mathman]

That is a great story. Now I have three weeks, for sure, to be a Viking fan and then hope it goes on for the rest of the season. You have made us proud Zach.