{"id":440332,"date":"2026-09-18T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440332\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:28:26","slug":"how-deejay-dallas-quickly-earned-vikings-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440332\/","title":{"rendered":"How DeeJay Dallas Quickly Earned Vikings Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my first time being a Viking, and the fans here are second to none,&#8221; Dallas said. &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s fans are nice, too, but here, it&#8217;s a different feel. I came out and the SKOL Chant was going on, &#8216;This is crazy.&#8217; With Nolan bringing me here, I&#8217;m blessed for sure and just happy I was able to contribute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas has experience as a runner, receiver and returner. He said he watched Price&#8217;s rookie season from afar and concluded Price is &#8220;the man&#8221; as a return specialist. Knowing the value of a springing block, Dallas was happy to do his part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a returner, that matters. Holding a block for this number of seconds for somebody to split matters, and if I can do my 1\/11th, that&#8217;s all I care about,&#8221; Dallas said.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas showed he is willing to have a little fun, too, with the expression he made for his team headshot, a wide-eyed look.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about it by FOX 9&#8217;s Dawn Mitchell, he explained he was trying to &#8220;embody the Vikings mentality, like that berserker mentality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s my first time being a Viking, and the fans here are second to none,&#8221; Dallas said. &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,42819,30541,41940],"class_list":["post-440332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-deejay-dallas","tag-news-index","tag-news-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}