Dan Buckner
Dan Buckner is an American former professional football wide receiver. He played college football at the University of Arizona, and before that for the University of Texas at Austin where he played in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. Buckner was a member of the Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Ottawa Redblacks, Calgary Stampeders, Arizona Rattlers, and Los Angeles KISS.
Early life
Buckner was a five-star recruit out of Allen High School and received scholarship offers from Baylor, Nebraska, Texas, Notre Dame and Oklahoma, among others.College career
Buckner played college football at the University of Texas in 2008 and 2009. In his freshman year, he saw limited playing time, catching only 5 passes for 2 touchdowns as Texas won a share of the Big 12 South and then the Fiesta Bowl. In 2009 he started the season as one of Colt McCoy's primary targets, catching 29 receptions for 4 touchdowns in the first 5 games, including a stretch of 3 consecutive games with a touchdown making him only the 6th player in school history to do that, but he had only seven catches over the final four games of the season as his flex end position was gradually phased out of the Longhorns' attack by offensive coordinator Greg Davis. He helped Texas to win the Big 12 Championship and attend the BCS championship game in which he caught just 1 pass for -3 yards.A few weeks after the BCS Championship game, Buckner was arrested in College Station, Texas, on charges of criminal trespassing and resisting arrest and less than one day later he transferred to Arizona.
After sitting out the 2010 season as a redshirt for transferring, Buckner played two years at Arizona. In two seasons he had 103 receptions for 1,379 yards and 7 touchdowns. He was 2nd in receiving yards for the Wildcats in 2012 and 9th in the Pac-12 as he helped the team to an 8-5 record and a victory over Nevada in the 2012 New Mexico Bowl.