For whatever reason, Daniel Carlson’s tenure with the Minnesota Vikings was shorter than a Christian Ponder Hail Mary pass.
After the Vikings selected him in the fifth round of the 2018 NFL Draft, Carlson was immediately burdened with being the guy to erase Mike Zimmer’s re-occurring memories of Blair Walsh. Anything outside of perfect wasn’t going to be acceptable to Zimmer and the young Minnesota kicker was pretty much doomed after he got the call from the team on draft day.
Thanks to Zimmer’s tolerance with kickers being worse than his ability to hide his chewing tobacco in a bag of sunflower seeds, Carlson lasted a whole two games with the Vikings before he was canned in 2018.