Former Dallas Cowboys safety Danny McCray is going to try his hand at another kind of competition now that his days on the gridiron are over. McCray is set to appear on the 41st season of the CBS' reality show "Survivor."
In doing so, McCray will become the fourth former Cowboy to compete on the show. Gary Hogeboom, Jimmy Johnson and Alan Ball have previously been on Survivor.
"I was trying to find a way to satisfy this craving to compete," McCray told the Cowboys official website about joining the show. "Survivor is a show I was binge-watching after I retired from the NFL, and I was imagining myself competing better than some of the guys I'd seen before me on the show. Better specifically than the Alan Ball-types (laughing).
"I figured I could do it. My wife gave me the OK, and I sent in an audition tape and they accepted me. That's how I got started."
McCray went undrafted out of LSU following the 2010 NFL Draft. The safety then signed with the Cowboys and played for the team from 2010 to 2013.
McCray also played a season for the Chicago Bears in 2014 and had another stint with the Cowboys in 2015 before retiring. When it was all said and done, McCray registered 91 tackles and two interceptions during his time in the NFL.
