Category: 2024 training camp

Cowboys fortunate how their WR situation fell into place

The Cowboys were banking on multiple WRs to progress in 2024 and seem to have succeeded. | From @ReidDHanson

The Cowboys entered training camp with a clear and present need at the receiver position. Yes, they had one of the best WRs on the planet in CeeDee Lamb, but behind him was a grab bag of unknowns and mysteries.

The veteran of the bunch, Brandin Cooks, turns 31 in September and is coming off his worst season in five years. Was he still the guy or was he on decline? The developmental players, Jalen Tolbert and Jalen Brooks, have just 30 career NFL receptions between them and had given little indication last year they were ready to be relied on for a top-three role in 2024. And the rookie draft pick, Ryan Flournoy, was a project player from a small school who was in many ways a longshot to ever play in the NFL, let alone earn a roster spot as a rookie right out of camp.

The Cowboys weren’t just hoping their WR room would step up and play better than they did last season, they were banking on it. The issue at WR became even more apparent after CeeDee Lamb sat out camp amidst a contract dispute.

But it seems to have all worked out.

Not only did Lamb just sign an extension and make his way back into the fold, but the players the Cowboys were banking on to improve successfully paid out as well.

Cooks looks like his down season last year was more about his usage than slippage. Tolbert looks like he has a firm grasp of the WR3 position and may even be the heir apparent for Cooks as Dallas’ No. 2. Brooks looks like he can step in and play a variety of roles, namely filling the hole left by Michael Gallup at the X. Even the rookie Flournoy showed he’s more than just a project player; he’s someone who could be special.

Training camp has to be seen as widely successful for the Cowboys WR position. Hitting on one projection is impressive enough but the Cowboys appeared to hit on multiple projections. This feat can’t be understated.

No one disputes the offense runs through Lamb. It’s probably why the Cowboys gambled at all the other WR positions. Seeing these young prospects improve is important for 2024 and also in seasons beyond.

With Lamb as the second highest paid WR in the NFL, it’s important for the Cowboys to keep costs low around him. Populating the WR depth chart with players on rookie deals is a must going forward. Exceptions can be made for modestly priced veterans, but generally speaking, the strategy is leaning on rookie contracts to keep positional spending affordable.

The entire WR depth chart has explicably fallen into place perfectly for the Cowboys, positioning the team for success in 2024 and beyond.

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NFL Roster Cuts: Cowboys nix promising WR, 3 former draft picks in first wave

From @ToddBrock24f7: Tyron Billy-Johnson, Eric Scott Jr., and Viliami Fehoko were among the 15 players trimmed from the Cowboys roster on Monday.

NFL teams aren’t required to have their rosters down to 53 players until Tuesday afternoon, but the Cowboys are among the clubs getting a head start on the trimming process.

Fifteen hopefuls were cut by the Cowboys on Monday, including a few who had shown flashes of strong play during training camp and the preseason.

The following players- each of whom has fewer than four NFL seasons accrued- have been waived. Any of the other 31 teams may make a claim on any of them. Players who go unclaimed after 24 hours become free agents and are eligible to be signed by Dallas again, perhaps as members of the 17-man practice squad.

  • WR Deontay Burnett
  • OL Cohl Cabral
  • DB Josh DeBerry
  • LB Willie Harvey Jr.
  • TE Alec Holler
  • WR Cam Johnson
  • LB Jason Johnson
  • RB Nathaniel Peat
  • DB Eric Scott Jr.

Perhaps the biggest surprise on this list is Scott, who was a sixth-round draft pick by the club last season. The club traded a fifth-round selection in the 2024 draft to acquire him out of Southern Mississippi last spring. He did not see the field as a rookie.

Harvey and Burnett were UFL pickups, each of whom made a handful of notable plays in the preseason.

Three players were waived with an injury designation. These individuals can still be picked up by another team, but if they go unclaimed, they technically revert back to the Cowboys on injured reserve. The player then either remains with the team or is released with an injury settlement.

  • WR David Durden
  • DE Viliami Fehoko
  • DE Durrell Johnson

Fehoko was a fourth-round pick last year but did not play as a rookie. David Durden was notably featured as 2023’s “Prospect X,” labeled by The Athletic as the most overlooked player in his draft class.

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Additionally, three players had their contracts terminated outright. Because they each have more than four NFL seasons accrued, these players were released rather than waived. As “vested veterans,” they become free agents immediately and can bypass the waiver wire to sign with any interested team.

  • DT Albert Huggins
  • WR Tyron Billy-Johnson
  • LB Damien Wilson

The speedy Billy-Johnson was frequently mentioned by Cowboys coaches and teammates as a solid contributor, both as a pass-catcher and on special teams. Wilson was originally a fourth-round draft pick by the Cowboys in 2015. He returned to Dallas in 2023 after two Super Bowl appearances (including one win) with the Chiefs and short stints with both Jacksonville and Carolina.

More roster moves will be coming in order to get the Cowboys’ regular-season roster down to 53 names by 3 p.m. CT on Tuesday.

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Breaking: Cowboys All-Pro CB DaRon Bland to miss significant time with foot fracture

From @ToddBrock24f7: Last year’s INT leader experienced discomfort last week; tests showed a stress fracture. Bland will undergo surgery to repair the damage.

The injury bug has taken a nasty bite out of the Cowboys’ starting roster just as the preseason comes to an end.

Starting cornerback DaRon Bland will miss six to eight weeks with a stress fracture in his foot, according to a report from Nick Eatman of dallascowboys.com.

The third-year defensive back, who just last year broke the NFL’s all-time single-season record for interception touchdown returns, apparently began experiencing discomfort on Wednesday.

NFL insider Tom Pelissero went on indicate that Bland will undergo surgery to repair the break, which was confirmed after imaging tests.

A fifth-round draft pick out of Fresno State in 2022, Bland notched five interceptions as a rookie. He was then thrust into a starting role last season following Trevon Diggs’s ACL tear and finished with a league-leading nine picks. Five of them were returned for touchdowns. Bland was named a first-team All-Pro for his efforts.

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The injury will further delay getting Diggs and Bland on the field together again, but the Cowboys believe they’ll be in decent shape. Jourdan Lewis remains with the team in his eighth pro campaign, and rookie Caelen Carson turned in a very strong camp. Eric Scott Jr. and newly-acquired veteran Andrew Booth Jr. are also in the mix to make the team’s 53-man roster, along with Kemon Hall, Josh Butler, and Josh DeBerry.

“We’re in great shape at corner because of our young guys coming in,” team owner Jerry Jones said on Dallas radio, per The Athletic‘s Jon Machota. “That’s one of the strengths of our whole team. Our secondary is outstanding.”

The Cowboys’ first eight opponents include several dangerous teams with potent passing attacks: the Browns, Saints, Ravens, Giants, Steelers, Lions, 49ers, and Falcons.

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‘Brick by brick’: Cowboys WR Jalen Brooks building foundation for ’24 roster spot

From @ToddBrock24f7: The second-year WR has performed well in camp and would seem to be one of the team’s top 6 at the position, but he’s not content to coast.

Jalen Brooks may be building something special.

By all accounts, the second-year wide receiver has been a strong performer for the Cowboys during training camp. Most major projections have the seventh-round draft pick from last year making the 53-man roster, no small feat considering the expanse of talent in the team’s WR room this summer.

Brooks admits that he didn’t have a perfect camp, but the 24-year-old says he’s focused on simply improving with every new opportunity.

“It’s been solid,” Brooks said of his camp before leaving Oxnard with the team. “It hasn’t been what I wanted it to [be], but … I’m big on ‘brick-by-brick.’ Just keep on stacking each and every day, trying to get better each and every day. I definitely left some plays out there this camp, but as long as I’m able to see what I need to learn from and everything, and come back and be better than what I was yesterday, then I’m okay with that.”

His work in practice has certainly helped with the construction of that foundation. Lining up against 2022’s league interceptions leader- day after day, rep after rep, drill after drill- will do that.

Brooks has found himself going one-on-one with All-Pro cornerback Trevon Diggs… and holding his own more often than not. One series from Wednesday’s final padded practice saw Diggs jawing loudly at Brooks mid-route, only to later have the South Carolina product get revenge by beating Diggs for a touchdown catch that ended with Brooks spinning the ball at the two-time Pro Bowler’s feet.

“It felt good, but that’s why we’re out here: just to compete,” Brooks said of the back-and-forth with Diggs. “We’ll be talking trash all the time and everything, so I think it’s healthy competition, but obviously, it feels good to end up on top, for sure.”

Brooks is getting those regular reps versus the Cowboys’ CB1 largely because superstar receiver CeeDee Lamb has been absent for all of camp. And with Brandin Cooks skipping out on the final two Oxnard practices for personal reasons, it’s put Brooks against DBs that are often far better than the ones he might draw during a real game, as the third or fourth option in the Dallas passing attack.

Even against top-tier competition, he’s been delivering.

Brooks says it speaks to the overall strength of the receiving corps the team has assembled.

“The depth that we have, being able to not miss a beat. It’s always a next-guy-up type of thing, and just showing that even if somebody’s not here, we’re able to step up and compete and fill those roles.”

That will only pay dividends when Lamb and Cooks are back in the lineup, and Brooks- who has all of six career catches for 64 yards- knows it.

“It just builds confidence,” he said. “Going into any game during the season, when you’re going against the best and you’re able to compete against the best, I think that talks for itself. I’m blessed that I have him as a teammate and I’m able to go against him.”

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Brooks isn’t guaranteed a roster spot, though, even if he’s shown out well in practices. He hasn’t gotten a ton of looks in the team’s two preseason games, but that could be because the Cowboys coaches already have a good idea of what they have in him.

Case in point: Brooks got just one target in last weekend’s win in Vegas.

His snap count in this Saturday’s game against the Chargers may provide a clue. Brooks would certainly seem- on paper- to be one of the Cowboys’ top six choices at the position. If Brooks is used again only sparingly in the preseason finale, it may be because the team is wrestling harder with a decision about Racey McMath or Kelvin Harmon or Jalen Cropper.

Maybe Brooks has already stacked enough bricks by now to have built himself a solid roster spot.

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Report: Multiple Cowboys players displaced by Tuesday’s training camp fire

From @ToddBrock24f7: The fire was put out quickly and without injury, but “a couple” of players reportedly had to change rooms for the final two nights of camp.

In all of Mike McCarthy’s training camps, he said, he’d never seen anything quite like this.

Sixteen fire trucks and 35 firefighters responded to a fire Tuesday afternoon in one of the guest rooms at the River Ridge Residence Inn, where the Cowboys train during their annual summer stay. The team was conducting a walkthrough several hundred yards away at the time of the incident.

“When you think you’ve seen it all…” Coach McCarthy commented to reporters Wednesday. “Sometimes things like this happen; thankful no one was hurt,”

The room in question was thankfully empty, and the fire was put out quickly.

“The Oxnard Fire Department was outstanding,” McCarthy said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, and although the team’s practice schedule was not affected, ESPN’s Todd Archer is reporting that a couple of Cowboys players had to move to new rooms for the final two nights of camp.

“It was a very unfortunate situation,” McCarthy continued. “No one was injured, but it’s definitely something we can learn from.”

It’s not known which players were displaced or whether any of their personal items were lost or damaged.

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“Fire, it’s scary, the damage it can do and has done. Some individuals have been affected by it, no doubt about it.”

McCarthy did not go into any further detail about the incident, but he did suggest that team staffers were among the first to respond, even using fire extinguishers, presumably before firefighters arrived on the scene.

“Thankful that we had people that jumped right in there and were on top of it,” he said.

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Cowboys waive former 4th-round defensive back

From @ToddBrock24f7: Sheldrick Redwine had been dealing with a hamstring injury in camp as he tried to separate himself from a group of talented safeties.

The crowded Cowboys defensive secondary has been thinned by one.

The team waived safety Sheldrick Redwine on Tuesday, as first reported by Nicole Hutchison of dallascowboys.com. The Cowboys confirmed the move Tuesday afternoon.

The 27-year-old is a former fourth-round draft pick, taken by Cleveland in 2019 out of Miami. After two seasons with the Browns, Redwine bounced around from the Jets to the Panthers to the Dolphins and finally the Colts before signing with Dallas in January 2023.

In that time, the 6-foot safety saw action in 36 games (playoffs included), recording one interception and 77 tackles. His only appearance for the Cowboys came on Thanksgiving Day last season, during a 45-10 blowout win over Washington.

Per Nick Harris of the team website, Redwine “had been battling a hamstring injury” during this summer’s training camp. He signed a futures contract with the club back in January, but was unable to carve out a role in a position group that includes Malik Hooker, Donovan Wilson, Markquese Bell, Juanyeh Thomas, Israel Mukuamu, Julius Wood, and Emany Johnson.

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All clubs must get their 90-man rosters down to 53 by the end of business next Tuesday, Aug. 27. The latest roster projections from Cowboys Wire forecast four safeties making the final team, with one more being signed to the practice squad. Redwine was not on that list.

The Cowboys will return to Frisco this week after a long stay in Oxnard, Calif. and play their final preseason game this Saturday at AT&T Stadium against the visiting Chargers before concluding training camp.

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McCarthy: Ryan Flournoy ‘gets better with every opportunity’ as Cowboys WRs battle for roster spots

From @ToddBrock24f7: The Cowboys HC talked about several of the 13 wide receivers who have two more practices in Oxnard and a preseason game to land a locker.

For the 13 men vying for a spot in the Cowboys’ wide receivers room this season, the chances to make a good final impression are dwindling fast.

The team will have two more padded practices and then a walkthrough before leaving Oxnard. Then it’s back to The Star to prepare for the preseason finale on Saturday. And by the end of business next Tuesday, roster cuts will have been made and several of the hopefuls will be looking for new jobs.

Only three receivers would seem to be bona fide locks to make the squad, but head coach Mike McCarthy may have dropped some hints about the remaining frontrunners in his latest press conference.

Nothing has changed with CeeDee Lamb, of course. He is still absent from training camp as he awaits a lucrative contract extension. And while he has yet to officially work with the team this offseason, he is a regular topic of conversation as the Dallas coaches redistribute his lost reps.

“You have to have a plan,” McCarthy told reporters Tuesday morning. “It’s something that we reconvene [about] every single night- for us as a staff, and more so myself and the coordinators- and we have a plan to work each and every day, and we make those adjustments accordingly. And when CeeDee does come back, we’ll adjust and make sure that we’re ready to go, but right now we’re preparing the other guys.”

Brandin Cooks is not one of them, though, at least not for the next two days. McCarthy explained that the veteran will miss work Tuesday and Wednesday for personal reasons, but the coach was quick to point out, “Everything’s good; it’s a good thing.” Cooks had some knee soreness last week, but this absence is apparently unrelated.

Return specialist KaVontae Turpin is the only other Cowboys wide receiver not to see any action this preseason. His roster slot is secured, however, as the club is no doubt eager to deploy the speedster under the new dynamic kickoff rules.

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That leaves 10 “other guys.” One of the most promising would appear to be rookie Ryan Flournoy. The sixth-round draft pick out of Southeast Missouri State was dealing with a knee issue early in camp, but he has been perhaps the most consistent of the team’s wideouts since. Flournoy currently leads the Cowboys receiving corps in both targets and catches over two preseason contests, including a touchdown grab last week versus the Raiders.

“He’s a young man that gets better with every opportunity,” McCarthy said of Flournoy, who earned the nickname “Super” while in college. “Obviously, he had the injury and missed some time; I just love the way he bounced back. You can see the confidence from Week 1 to Week 2; he took a huge step. I love his physicality: run blocking and finish was exceptional, but obviously he had the big play there. He has shown the ability to do some nice things on special teams. I thought he had a good night out there in Vegas.”

McCarthy also had positive reviews for 2022 third-round pick Jalen Tolbert and 2023 seventh-rounder Jalen Brooks.

“They’re doing exactly what you’re looking for,” said the coach. “Both those guys have grown immensely throughout the offseason program, put in the extra time with Dak. I don’t know of too many external throwing sessions where those two weren’t involved, and that’s what it takes in today’s climate of the NFL. … Those two guys have performed at a pretty consistent basis. I’m very confident in both J.T. and J.B.”

While we don’t have the full breadth of training camp reps to include in our evaluation as the Cowboys coaches do, here’s a look at how the Dallas receivers (who aren’t presumptive roster locks) have fared over the two preseason games thus far.

Player Wk 1 (Rec/Tgt/Yds) Wk 2 (Rec-Tgt/Yds) Total (Rec/Tgt/Yds)
Kelvin Harmon 2-2, 38 2-2, 18 4-4, 56
Racey McMath 0-3, 0 3-3, 54 3-6, 54
Jalen Brooks 2-2, 49 0-1, 0 2-3, 49
Ryan Flournoy 2-3, 18 4-6, 23 6-9, 31
Jalen Cropper 4-6, 26 0-1, 0 4-7, 26
Deontay Burnett 2-5, 23 0-0, 0 2-5, 23
David Durden 1-2, 16 0-0, 0 1-2, 16
Cam Johnson 2-3, 10 0-0, 0 2-3, 10
Jalen Tolbert 0-0, 0 1-1, 6 1-1, 6
Tyron Billy-Johnson 0-0, 0 0-1, 0 0-1, 0

It’s worth noting that Jalen Cropper got additional work as a punt returner in the Raiders game, as did Tyron Billy-Johnson. (Cropper, unfortunately, fumbled away one of his two return attempts.) Billy-Johnson also made the stat sheet as a kick returner in both preseason outings.

In Cowboys Wire’s latest 53-man projections, the team keeps six wide receivers on the roster and reserves two more for the practice squad. Assuming three of those spots are already spoken for, it leaves five more lockers up for grabs, with these 10 receivers going at it and seven days to decide things.

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‘Good conversations’ going on around Cowboys QB contract, per Prescott

From @ToddBrock24f7: Dak Prescott offered encouraging words regarding the state of his contract negotiations, saying “good things are going on there.”

There’s been a sudden flurry of activity from the Cowboys front office this week, with a veteran trade going down on Wednesday and a free agent acquisition being announced on Thursday morning. And now Dak Prescott has offered a glimmer of hope regarding his own contract negotiation, which had seemingly been dead in the water all offseason long.

The Cowboys quarterback characterized things as moving in a positive direction with less than a month to go before both the regular-season opener… and the official start of the final contract year for the league’s reigning passing touchdowns leader.

“Good conversations are going on,” Prescott told reporters at a Thursday afternoon press conference, per a post on X from Patrik Walker of the team website. “Lots of good things are going on there. I’ve got a lot of confidence in my guys and these guys in getting things done.”

Of course, everyone involved has been saying some version of that exact thing for several months. Prescott has been widely projected to be in line for new deal that could top $60 million a year and make him the highest-paid player in NFL history.

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The team has called securing Prescott for the long term a priority ever since the Cowboys were dispatched from the postseason in January. But despite Jerry and Stephen Jones taking every opportunity to drop a soundbite about how we think the world of Dak and how- at the end of the day– Dak can absolutely lead the team to a Super Bowl, here we are in mid-August with no movement toward locking him down and every single day that passes bringing Cowboys Nation 24 hours closer to a scenario that sees a frustrated and unappreciated Prescott ride into the sunset, enter the free agent market, and leave the team to start over from square one.

The Joneses love to explain how and why such agreements are laboriously long and slow processes. While Prescott’s comments Thursday gave no concrete details (or even a strong hint) that a new deal is imminent, it does offer hope.

And in a week where the front office has ditched its typical nonchalant ways and actually conducted some promising player business, a little hope- especially regarding the face of the franchise- could go a long way.

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Cowboys current WR1 leaves practice for knee evaluation

Brandin Cooks left practice with a knee injury, causing a scare as the Cowboys are already without CeeDee Lamb. | From @cdburnett7

The contract-related absence of wideout CeeDee Lamb has left another in the top spot of Dallas’ depth chart. Veteran wide receiver Brandin Cooks has handled WR1 duties while Lamb continues to work with the club in negotiations.

He’s provided a key veteran voice as the majority of the remaining receivers have only a handful of years of experience amongst the group. Hopefully he will be able to continue delivering his knowledge both in words and examples but that is now in question as during practice Thursday, Cooks left the field with a knee injury.

In his first season as a Cowboy, Cooks had a quiet start before building a strong red-zone connection with quarterback Dak Prescott. He finished the season with 54 catches for 657 yards and eight touchdowns. Given the drama around Lamb’s holdout, having a veteran receiver like Cooks in the room has calmed the situation.

Cooks’ injury Thursday likely sent chills down the spines of coaches and the front office, but DallasCowboys.com Patrik Walker indicates it may not be a long-term injury situation.

Beyond the pair of Lamb and Cooks, the wide receiver room would be led by Jalen Tolbert, with Jalen Brooks and KaVontae Turpin strongly in the mix for snaps and several other players looking to convince the front office in their upside. Cooks missing any practice time highlights those battles even more.

Cowboys announce open practices at The Star in Frisco

From @ToddBrock24f7: Fans are invited to watch two practices at the Ford Center, the first coming just hours after final roster cuts are due on Aug. 27.

The Cowboys have been practicing in front of live fans for the past several weeks at their temporary home in Oxnard, Calif. But with their summer residency quickly drawing to a close, the faithful back in DFW will soon get their chance to watch the team work up close and personal, too.

The Star in Frisco will host two open practices at the Ford Center, the Cowboys announced Thursday. Both practices are scheduled for later in the month, following the team’s preseason finale at AT&T Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 24. The first session will take place just hours after roster cuts are due and will mark the debut appearance of the Cowboys’ official 53-man roster for this season.

Cowboys Night will take place Tuesday, Aug. 27 and kick off at 4:00 p.m. CDT with festivities and live entertainment taking place on Tostitos Championship Plaza. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m. for an open-session practice that will take place from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

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The second practice, set for the same time the following night- Wednesday, Aug. 28- will be preceded by a Season Kickoff Ceremony including remarks from team owner Jerry Jones at 5:40 p.m.

Both practice sessions are free and open to the public and figure to draw a sizable crowd, with the Cowboys’ 2024 regular-season opener slated to take place less than two weeks later in Cleveland.

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