The Dallas Cowboys have a plethora of offseason free agents they need to address, and they come in all shapes, sizes and statuses. QB Dak Prescott, WR Amari Cooper, CB Byron Jones and DE Robert Quinn get all of the headlines, but they are hardly the only decisions the club needs to render verdict on. No, they are just four of 25 unrestricted free agents and the club has another entire subset to decide on before the market opens up on March 18.
Earlier in the month, the team indicated they were going to place tenders on restricted free agents TE Blake Jarwin and QB Cooper Rush. Now, they’ve indicated they are going to bring back reserve lineman Adam Redmond to help ensure continuity among the backups on the offensive line.
The Cowboys re-signed center Adam Redmond, who qualified as an exclusive rights free agent with fewer than three accrued NFL seasons.
— Rob Phillips (@robphillips3) March 9, 2020
Redmond did not dress for a single game for the Cowboys last season, after being active for 10 games in 2018. Thanks to only appearing in four games with Indianapolis in 2017, he has only accrued two seasons towards free agency, thus his ERFA status. Players with three years towards free agency are restricted free agents (Jarwin, Rush) and players with four years or more are unrestricted free agents (Prescott-4, Cooper-5).
Bringing back Redmond is imperative, as Joe Looney and Xavier Su’a-Filo are the primary interior backups and both are UFAs this offseason. Dallas has third-round pick Conner McGovern in line to be the main swing interior, but they normally like to keep either 3 or 4 OL backups on the roster.
Rosters will expand from 53 to 55 if the new CBA is ratified, so there could be more help in the trenches there as well.
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