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.