All NFL teams had to get down to 80 players on Tuesday. There were no exceptions, so the Dallas Cowboys were among teams who had to trim down their offseason roster from 85 like the other 31 teams. To do so, Dallas ended their kicker competition, sent a veteran TE from 2021’s roster to IR for the year and released three players who didn’t have much of a shot of making the roster.
K Brett Maher received a vote of confidence in the release of Lirim Hajrallahu while UDFA TE Peyton Hendershot saw his chances of a roster spot or practice squad role skyrocket with Jeremy Sprinkle being shut down for the year. One injured player who is expected back may have gotten an under-the-radar signal boost, too. WR Michael Gallup wasn’t involved in the transaction wire on Tuesday, and there may be something to the fact that he wasn’t.
A little known rule change allowed teams to move players from the Active/PUP list to the Reserve/PUP list in the cutdown from 85 to 80 players. Gallup, who is the lone Cowboys player on PUP (rookie Damone Clark is on NFI which is basically the same thing but work with us here) was not moved.