{"id":13546,"date":"2017-03-09T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2017-03-09T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:37:34","slug":"karlos-dansby-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/03\/09\/karlos-dansby-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Karlos Dansby Signs With the Arizona Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DansKa20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karlos Dansby<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has signed agreed to sign with the Arizona Cardinals.\u00a0Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.\u00a0Dansby spent one season in Cincinnati, but will now return for a third stint with the team that drafted him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cardinals have reached agreement w\/Karlos Dansby, pending physical. His third stint with the team<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kent Somers (@kentsomers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kentsomers\/status\/839976935589523456\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Karlos Dansby Signs With the Arizona Cardinals<\/h2>\n<p>The 2016 season was veteran linebacker Karlos Dansby\u2019s first in Cincinnati.\u00a0Dansby was acquired to fill a need and did so relatively effectively, although he seemed to have lost a step from earlier in his career.\u00a0Dansby came to the Bengals from\u00a0Cleveland where had been cut after two seasons despite having three interceptions and two forced fumbles in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 season was Dansby\u2019s second stint in Arizona, this one much briefer than his first. That season, he started every game and had four interceptions. Prior to that he spent three seasons with the Miami Dolphins from 2010 to 2012. After signing an extremely lucrative contract, Dansby was a consistent player for the Dolphins, but did not make as many big plays as he had in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Dansby was drafted by the Cardinals in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft. Not only did he start in his rookie season, but he instantly became one of the most productive linebackers in the NFL. Dansby was fast and athletic and made plays all over the field. As a rookie he forced three fumbles. In 2005 he had three interceptions and returned two for touchdowns. Dansby\u2019s production continued and he was such an integral part of the Cardinals\u2019 defense that they franchised him in 2008 and again in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Dansby, a Woodlawn, AL native, attended Auburn before entering the NFL Draft. In his time at Auburn he totaled 218 tackles, 31 tackles for loss, eight interceptions, ten sacks, and seven forced fumbles. He was one of the most dominant players not only in the SEC, but in college football during that period.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/627711440\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: inline-block; position: absolute;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/627711440?et=C75PyrzkT-F_N_UgI8oz3g&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=ZeGNq7_QxDw9hak4mk02luvM9cK4d7Q8s0-j8s0fwq4=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran linebacker Karlos Dansby has proved to be a very durable player, starting 178 games during his 13 seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1768,"featured_media":13908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33],"tags":[279,330,61,1824,40],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-cardinals","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-football","tag-karlos-dansby","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"David McCaffery","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}