NFL Network’s Jane Slater took on-the-ground reporting to a recent level Saturday at Cowboys training camp.
Slater practiced her tackling skills against a dummy while covering Cowboys camp in Oxnard, Calif., where she went full charge against it before falling onto the sphere.
“Not gonna lie. Felt this one. @BaldyNFL and I actually have some work to do folks,” Slater wrote on Twitter alongside the video of the tackle.
Before taking over the tackling dummy, Slater received a number of tips on her setup and form from Brian Baldinger, a former offensive lineman and current NFL Network analyst.
“Oh, I feel I got concussed,” Slater jokingly said after the tackle.
“You’re good, Jane, you’re good,” Baldinger said. “That’s good, that’s the technique to attack it.”
Slater then posted three screenshots from the video on Twitter showing her descent to the bottom with the dummy on top of her.
“Dumb ways to die,” she quipped.
Slater’s encounter with the tackling dummy isn’t the one viral moment to return out of Cowboys training camp.
Last week, 5-foot-5 rookie running back Deuce Vaughn was at the middle of videos circulating on the web.
The 21-year-old Vaughn was the shortest player measured on the NFL Mix since that information began getting tracked in 2003, based on CBS, and looked especially small next to his towering teammates at practice.
Vaughn was chosen within the sixth round of this 12 months’s NFL Draft, No. 212 overall, and has at all times had a special tie to the organization.
The Kansas State product’s father, Chris Vaugh, is the assistant director of faculty scouting for the Cowboys and got to call his son with the life-altering news after Dallas confirmed its pick.
The Cowboys will open the 2023 campaign on Sept. 9 against the Giants after losing to the 49ers within the Divisional Round last season –– and maybe they’ll search for Slater’s assistance on the defensive end.