Linebacker Turned Lawyer Realizes Dream of Making NFL’s Vikings

Jeremiah Allison has spent most of his life dreaming about making it in the National Football League—his hometown Minnesota Vikings in particular.

Now he has. Only not in pads and a helmet.

The former linebacker, now 30, joined the team as an associate counsel last week, eight years after trying to make the Vikings as an undrafted rookie free agent. His struggle from big man on campus to league castaway was chronicled in the NFL Network documentary series “Undrafted.”

Always in the background were the words of Allison’s head coach at Washington State University, the late Mike Leach ...