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"The dream of playing professional football is alive and well for former Montana quarterback Dalton Sneed, a dream that has come full circle to the city where his college career began.
On Monday, the record-setting Grizzly QB was named to the inaugural 25-man roster of the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League and will get the chance to take his first pro snap on Friday in the team's season opener.
Owned by Bill Foley, a businessman with several Montana interests, the Knight Hawks are the IFL's newest franchise, set to play its first game this week at the new Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada, in front of an expected sold-out crowd.
Sneed, who came to Montana from UNLV where he was a recruit of former Rebel head coach Bobby Hauck, is one of two quarterbacks on the Knight Hawks' roster, competing for the starting job with former Boise State QB Jaylon Henderson.
The road to professional football has been long and winding for Sneed, who signed to play with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in March of 2020, but saw his CFL opportunity delayed, and ultimately cut short, due to the pandemic.
"I found myself back here in Vegas, and now I'm just riding it out, seeing where it takes me, and chasing the dream. It's unbelievable how life works and truly does come full circle."
Sneed returned to Vegas in early March when the Knight Hawks opened training camp. Now two years on since his first shot at pro football in the CFL, he says he has packed the proverbial lunch pail every day and embraced the new opportunity with a workman-like approach.
A true dual-threat quarterback, Sneed also racked up 7,002 yards of total offense, the most of any two-year player in program history and the sixth-most total yards overall. Sneed finished his career at UM averaging 304.4 yards of total offense over the course of 23 games, the third-best average in Griz history. This despite missing two games his senior season.
The 6-foot-1, 216-pound Scottsdale native also finished his career with the sixth-most passing touchdowns in school history (47), with his 2019 season passing total of 3,436 yards slotting in as the sixth-best individual season in program history.
The team plays in the same facility as the Henderson Silver Knights, the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Las Vegas Golden Knights, both owned by Foley. Montanans might know Foley as the owner of the Whitefish Mountain Resort, the Rock Creek Cattle Co. golf resort near Deer Lodge, and MacKenzie River Pizza."
https://gogriz.com/news/2022/3/16/football-sneed-gets-his-shot-with-the-vegas-knight-hawks.aspx
On Monday, the record-setting Grizzly QB was named to the inaugural 25-man roster of the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League and will get the chance to take his first pro snap on Friday in the team's season opener.
Owned by Bill Foley, a businessman with several Montana interests, the Knight Hawks are the IFL's newest franchise, set to play its first game this week at the new Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada, in front of an expected sold-out crowd.
Sneed, who came to Montana from UNLV where he was a recruit of former Rebel head coach Bobby Hauck, is one of two quarterbacks on the Knight Hawks' roster, competing for the starting job with former Boise State QB Jaylon Henderson.
The road to professional football has been long and winding for Sneed, who signed to play with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in March of 2020, but saw his CFL opportunity delayed, and ultimately cut short, due to the pandemic.
"I found myself back here in Vegas, and now I'm just riding it out, seeing where it takes me, and chasing the dream. It's unbelievable how life works and truly does come full circle."
Sneed returned to Vegas in early March when the Knight Hawks opened training camp. Now two years on since his first shot at pro football in the CFL, he says he has packed the proverbial lunch pail every day and embraced the new opportunity with a workman-like approach.
A true dual-threat quarterback, Sneed also racked up 7,002 yards of total offense, the most of any two-year player in program history and the sixth-most total yards overall. Sneed finished his career at UM averaging 304.4 yards of total offense over the course of 23 games, the third-best average in Griz history. This despite missing two games his senior season.
The 6-foot-1, 216-pound Scottsdale native also finished his career with the sixth-most passing touchdowns in school history (47), with his 2019 season passing total of 3,436 yards slotting in as the sixth-best individual season in program history.
The team plays in the same facility as the Henderson Silver Knights, the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Las Vegas Golden Knights, both owned by Foley. Montanans might know Foley as the owner of the Whitefish Mountain Resort, the Rock Creek Cattle Co. golf resort near Deer Lodge, and MacKenzie River Pizza."
https://gogriz.com/news/2022/3/16/football-sneed-gets-his-shot-with-the-vegas-knight-hawks.aspx
