Dabness Atkins enters his third season with the Minnesota Vikings in 2026, and first as a scouting assistant after serving as a scouting associate from 2024-25.
As a scouting associate, Atkins was responsible for evaluating players among the collegiate and professional ranks as well as traveling to all-star games and independent area coverage for relationship building.
Before joining the Vikings, Atkins spent time as a recruiting assistant at the University of Massachusetts. In his role, he helped coordinate and execute over 40 annual recruiting functions and performed a variety of administrative duties around the recruitment of student athletes.
Prior to his career in sports, Dabness worked in finance for eight years with stints at PIMCO Investments and Fidelity in New York, and Oak View Group in Amherst, Mass. He earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from Holy Cross in 2016 and in May of 2024, he graduated with a master's in sport management from UMass Amherst and completed The Scouting Academy's film evaluation course.
