{"id":7602,"date":"2020-05-08T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/?post_type=furman-update&p=7602"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:35:37","slug":"dakota-dozier-14-raleigh-nfl-lineman-makes-most-of-off-season-with-adjusted-workouts-volunteer-work-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/news\/dakota-dozier-14-raleigh-nfl-lineman-makes-most-of-off-season-with-adjusted-workouts-volunteer-work-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Dozier ’14 – Raleigh NFL lineman makes most of off-season with adjusted workouts, volunteer work amid COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like so many others, Dakota Dozier’s ’14 entire livelihood is on hold. An offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, Dozier calls Raleigh home in the offseason.<\/p>\n

“I know my options are limited, but I’m doing the best I can with it,” said Dozier of his daily workouts. “And that’s kind of how I’ve approached it. Just go out here, do the best I can and be as fit as possible and so when I can get back in the weight room, hit that hard and get back on the field, hit that hard.”….<\/p>\n

Dakota has a health and exercise science degree from Furman University that he’s also putting to work in partnership with 3M. He films himself doing experiments that kids at home can replicate.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dozier is active with other causes as well in the Vikings community. It’s a voluntary part of his job that he greatly enjoys.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The NFL platform obviously affords you the chance to connect with different organizations,” he said. “And it’s just an awesome platform to use because I love giving back. We’re tremendously blessed to do what we do and any way we can give back is awesome.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Like so many others, Dakota Dozier’s ’14 entire livelihood is on hold. An offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, Dozier calls Raleigh home in the offseason. “I know my options […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7603,"template":"","update-categories":[575],"class_list":["post-7602","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-alumni-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}