Former cornerback at Mississippi State. 2019: 2 interceptions, 8 pass breakups, 40 tackles.
6′2″ · 185 lb · Hammond, LA
The story
Former cornerback at Mississippi State. 2019: 2 interceptions, 8 pass breakups, 40 tackles.
Cameron Dantzler
Three seasons at Mississippi State, two different head coaches: Dan Mullen and Joe Moorhead. The receipt on tape: 9 tackles, 1 TFL against Ole Miss, Week 14, 2019.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Mississippi State, 108 tackles — drafted at #89 overall by Minnesota.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Dan Mullen → Joe Moorhead. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
MinnesotaEntering 7th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (95th percentile). Concern: qb hurries (25th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.4 |
| Road4g | 3.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 6.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jeff Lebby
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2019
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Mississippi State | 40 | 31 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 8 | 2 | -- |
| 2018 | Mississippi State | 43 | 32 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 9 | 2 | -- |
| 2017 | Mississippi State | 25 | 15 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 108 | 78 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 20 | 5 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2019
W 38–28
at Louisiana
7 TOT · 7 SOLO · 1 INT
Edged out Louisiana on the road in a shootout.
With T. Stevens — 236 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 66.3 · 37 rush yds (11 car) · 1 TD · K. Hill — 197 rush yds (27 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-28@ Louisiana | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-15vs Southern Miss | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 28-13vs Kentucky | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 5 | L 23-56@ Auburn | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 10-20@ Tennessee | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 13-36vs LSU | 7 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 10 | W 54-24@ Arkansas | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | L 7-38vs Alabama | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 21-20vs Ole Miss | 9 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Total | 40 | 31 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 2 | 8 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 8 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 2 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Player DNA