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Jason Vander Laan’s strange, unlikely NFL journey could lead to Panthers roster spot

Jason Vander Laan still remembers his first NFL minicamp three seasons ago.

“It was insane. I was so bad,” Vander Laan recalled after Sunday’s Panthers training camp. “So bad. Sooo bad. Looking back, it was so insane that I made it all the way through camp without getting cut.”

The reason?

Vander Laan, now a 6-foot-4 backup tight end for Carolina, had never taken a snap at that position.

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