Former Commodores safety taped episode of Canadian version of 'Shark Tank'

Kenny Ladler spent part of the Canadian Football League’s offseason making a pitch.

The all-SEC safety for Vanderbilt in 2013, wasn’t on a baseball field. He was in a television studio.

Ladler and his girlfriend, Mercedes Dericho, taped an episode of Dragons' Den, Canada’s version of Shark Tank, the show in which entrepreneurs pitch their products to a group of venture capitalists in hope of convincing at least one to invest.

“My girlfriend is an entrepreneur in Miami and pitched an idea to them, she has a bikini company that sells online,” Ladler told CHED-AM 630. “It was nerve-racking. It almost felt like a game. Once we got in there, the bright lights came on, I felt like I was in a game.

“My girl was very composed, she handled herself very well, but those dragons, they are fierce, man.”

Ladler moved to the CFL last season after a brief stint with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL. He made 70 tackles and had two interceptions as a linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos, who went 10-8 in 2016.

Edmonton’s 2017 preseason opener is June 11 and the regular season opens two weeks later, June 24.

The Dragons' Den episode will air sometime this fall.

“Can’t talk about exactly what happened on the show,” he said. “But I am looking forward to seeing it.”