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Could Jeremy Sprinkle move from afterthought to key Cowboys piece at TE?

Sprinkle had the profile of a player who could develop with time. May the clock strike accurate now that he’s in a professional offense with a real QB? | From @BenGrimaldi

The Dallas Cowboys came into the off-season with very few holes on the offensive side of the ball. One of the positions that did need a bit of depth was tight end after losing Blake Bell in free agency after one year with the club. While the team has Sean McKeon from last year’s UDFA class and two more from this year’s class, a veteran addition was sought. The team addressed these concerns with the signing of veteran TE Jeremy Sprinkle.

Coming over form the Washington Football Team, where he spent his first four seasons, Sprinkle takes something away from a rival and could benefit the Cowboys. Sprinkle isn’t likely to be a big part of the offense, but he might find his role as a jack of all trades in Dallas.

Our 2021 Player Profile Countdown continues with the third tight end on the depth chart.

Cowboys 53-man roster prediction is heavy on defense following draft

The Dallas Cowboys will go heavy on defense in this way too early 53-man roster prediction for the 2021 season.

The 2021 NFL draft dust is just settling, rookie free agents are in the process of getting signed and the teams are narrowing down their rosters to 90 players. The Dallas Cowboys did a little house cleaning to their roster when they released veteran players recently, most notably DT Antwaun Woods, to reach the threshold.

Now set within the roster rules with their 90-man arsenal, the Cowboys have less than four months to trim the player down to its initial 53-man team. Here’s a way too early guess at what the 2021 edition of the Cowboys might look like when they break training camp and head into the season.

Sprinkle, Anger contract details revealed, Cowboys see minimal cap impact

The two recent free-agency adds will cost Dallas just under $1 million apiece against the salary cap, according to ESPN.

The Cowboys continue their tradition of being thrifty shoppers in free agency. Tuesday brought details of the contracts signed by the two newest members of the organization; both will provide camp competition and possibly regular-season depth in 2021.

As reported by Todd Archer of ESPN, tight end Jeremy Sprinkle and punter Bryan Anger both signed minimum salary benefit deals with the team. That means they’ll count for just under $1 million apiece against the salary cap. Both players received a signing bonus of $137,500. Of the two, Anger has the slightly larger base salary, $1.075 million to Sprinkle’s $990,000.

Anger’s base salary actually gives him a larger paycheck than current Cowboys starter Hunter Niswander, the who took over last season for the injured Chris Jones. The rookie did enough to keep the job, triggering Jones’s release by the club last month. The 32-year-old Anger is expected to provide competition for Niswander within John Fassel’s special teams unit.

Sprinkle’s base pay takes a big hit from the $2.133 million he last earned in Washington. Entering his fifth season, the 6-foot-5, 255-pound tight end has been used primarily as a blocker. In Dallas, he’ll likely compete for a depth spot behind Blake Jarwin and Dalton Schultz.

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Former Washington tight end Jeremy Sprinkle has a new home

The Washington Football Team needs help at tight end. Outside of starter Logan Thomas, Washington’s three backup tight ends combined for

The Washington Football Team needs help at tight end. Outside of starter Logan Thomas, Washington’s three backup tight ends combined for three receptions and 18 yards in 2020.

On Wednesday, Washington lost its backup tight end when Jeremy Sprinkle signed with the Dallas Cowboys.

Sprinkle was a fifth-round draft pick out of Arkansas in 2017 and finished his career in Washington with 34 receptions for 301 yards and three touchdowns. Sprinkle caught just one pass for six yards in 2020.

Fans won’t remember Sprinkle’s time in D.C. too fondly. The Football Team has battled age and injuries at the position in recent years until Thomas stabilized the position last season.

Before 2019, Sprinkle had several opportunities to seize playing time and generally ended up dropping wide-open passes or stumbling on a key block. After playing out the final year of his rookie contract in 2020, Washington was clearly planning to move on from Sprinkle.

Meanwhile, Washington will look to the 2021 NFL draft for help behind Thomas, where everyone outside of Florida star Kyle Pitts is a viable option.

Cowboys add to tight end room with Jeremy Sprinkle signing

Adding to the position group, Dallas finds a new blocking tight end to add to the 2021 mix.

The Dallas Cowboys have added a second free agent on the day, bringing in an offensive player in addition to punter Bryan Anger. The club lost blocking tight end Blake Bell during the offseason as he returned to the Kansas City Chiefs after a one-year hiatus. Although the top of the depth chart is relatively secured with Blake Jarwin and Dalton Schultz, the club certainly was in a position to add to the group.

With that opening, former Washington Football Team member Jeremy Sprinkle has now joined the stocked room on a one-year deal to fill the void. 

Sprinkle caught 26 passes in 2019, a number that plummeted to one catch during a 16-game 2020 season when the team brought in Logan Thomas to do the heavy lifting.

Sprinkle is more of a blocking tight end with career totals of 301 receiving yards and three touchdowns. He should be seen more as depth than as any statement on the club’s interest in drafting the position later this month in the amateur draft.

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Colts hold tryout for TE Jeremy Sprinkle

Colts taking a look at Jeremy Sprinkle.

The Indianapolis Colts held a tryout for free-agent tight end Jeremy Sprinkle on Monday, per the league’s transaction wire.

Sprinkle was a fifth-round pick with the Washington Football Team in the 2017 NFL draft. He spent four seasons with Washington but never truly broke out as a move tight end.

Sprinkle’s best season was in 2019 when he recorded 26 receptions for 241 yards and one touchdown. Outside of that, he’s never recorded more than five receptions in a season.

The Colts have a need for a move tight end behind Jack Doyle and Mo Alie-Cox. Frank Reich’s scheme likes to utilize the position as a mismatch in the passing game so they are on the lookout for a passing-catching option.

Should the Colts sign Sprinkle, he would likely be fighting for the TE3 spot behind Doyle and Alie-Cox and playing a similar role to that of Trey Burton in 2020.

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Ron Rivera shouts out TEs Logan Thomas and Marcus Baugh after practice

Two tight ends in Washington, both Baugh and Thomas, have stood out in camp, and they got some love from Rivera on Monday.

Earlier on Monday, we questioned whether or not Washington might be okay at the tight end position, thanks to the breakout of Logan Thomas and Marcus Baugh in training camp.  Our consensus was that it may be a bit too soon to say that Washington will be fine at that position, but the continued growth of those two players, in particular, is something extremely intriguing to keep your eye on.

It seems that head coach Ron Rivera agrees, as he mentioned after practice on Monday that both players are looking great, alluding to an impactful season from both of them.

An interesting thing to note is how Baugh — who went undrafted after coming out of Ohio State in 2018 — has seemingly replaced Richard Rodgers in the TE ranks, with Jeremy Sprinkle finishing out the trio of big pass-catchers.

What’s clear so far is that Dwayne Haskins seems to be loving the addition of some healthy TEs in Washington, and he’s going to them in the passing game as much as he can.

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