Denver Post · Apr 14, 2019
Dalton Risner has the angels, and the wind, at his back as NFL draft looms
Todd Rosenberg via AP Portrait of Kansas State offensive lineman Dalton Risner at the NFL Combine, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Indianapolis. 1
The Google map of a man starts mid-bicep on the right arm and winds gently north, by means of a family tree whose branches stretch and crackle like black lightning to the cusp of the shoulder. Some football players wear their hearts on their sleeves. Dalton Risner wears his soul.
“I make sure I get meaningful tattoos,” explains Risner, the Wiggins native, former Kansas State All-American offensive lineman and likely the first Colorado native to get plucked in the NFL Draft later this month. “They’re going to be tattoos I still love when I’m 80.”
