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Why the Cowboys should consider trading Sam Williams

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Do you think there are any players the Cowboys should consider trading?

It feels like only yesterday when the Dallas Cowboys' war room was excited about the selection of Mississippi edge rusher Sam Williams. The 56th overall pick in 2022, Williams was an exciting pass-rushing prospect. He was a missile off the line of scrimmage. His ability to bend and accelerate to the quarterback made him an intriguing player that the team added to their defensive end arsenal.

Over his first two years in the league, Williams was buried behind a very deep Cowboys edge-rushing unit. He finished with the fifth-most defensive end snap counts in both 2022 and 2023. That’s because Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence were the bread and butter of the edge attack force. At the same time, Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler were productive veteran defensive linemen who had no intention of stepping aside for this young buck.

Despite being on the shorter end of playing time, Williams made the most of his opportunities. He had 10 tackles for a loss and three forced fumbles in his rookie season, where he finished fifth in voting for Defensive Rookie of the Year. There was no shortage of splash plays where he was found sacking quarterbacks or bodyslamming ball carriers in the backfield. “Slam” Williams was a real thing.

Sadly, the moment a great opportunity presented itself, Williams wasn’t around to take advantage. After Armstrong and Fowler left for Washington in free agency last year, the table was set for Williams to have his breakout season. Unfortunately, a knee injury in training camp ended his season before it even started.

Williams’ recovery is going well, and he is expected to be 100% entering training camp. That’s great news for a guy who is entering a contract season as he is in the final year of his four-year rookie deal. If there is a time to shine, that time is now.

While his health is better, the young pass-rusher enters an all too familiar situation where he finds himself once again in a crowded position group. Guys like Lawrence and Chauncey Golston left in free agency this year, but the team has reloaded over the last 15 months. Starting with back-to-back seasons where the team selected edge rushers Marshawn Kneeland and Donovan Ezeiruaku, suddenly the team has a couple of young players whom they’ll want to give playing time to.

The Cowboys also addressed the position in free agency this spring before Ezeiruaku fell into their lap in the second round of the draft. The team signed two former first-round picks in free agency, Dante Fowler and Payton Turner. The addition of Fowler is particularly worth noting as he is coming off a double-digit sack season and should be a key member of the Cowboys' edge-rushing rotation.

Last season, the Cowboys were hit hard with injuries along the edge, forcing them to reach deep, relying on players like Golston and Carl Lawson. This year, they are stacked with talent, which poses the question: What does it all mean for Williams?

As it stands now, it’s going to be difficult for the team to find enough playing time for all their edge rushers. Kneeland is entering year two, and he should see the field plenty as he’s one of the better run-stopping defensive ends. Fowler is the team’s fiercest sub-package pass-rushing option, so his role should be well-defined. Williams could slide in as DE#4 in a best-case scenario, but what happens if either the rookie Ezeiruaku or the free agent Turner starts turning heads? Even with keeping a safety-net depth surplus of players, the team could find itself a little saturated at the position group if one of these new guys is showing out.

Training camp will provide more data, but if the Cowboys are in a situation where they are six players deep at defensive end with no ability to give everyone adequate playing time, they should look into reallocating their resources. Imagine a healthy Williams on full display in preseason games against third-string offensive tackles. What kind of buzz could that generate? Could they flip him for a player who could provide them a greater service at another position? Or possibly help replenish next year’s draft capital?

With a deep group filled with many young homegrown players, Williams could be the odd man out. Other factors might come into play as well. Does he have the strength to help against the run, or is he just a one-trick pony? Does he approach the game the right way for the new coaching staff, whether it’s character, mental processing, or overall effort? These are legit questions that will reveal themselves soon enough, but there’s a range of outcomes that could find Williams on the trading block as final roster cuts approach.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...d-consider-trading-sam-williams-defensive-end

 

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Determining the ‘jenga piece’ for the 2025 Dallas Cowboys

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There are several players who fit the “jenga piece” criteria for the 2025 Dallas Cowboys.

An idea that interests me when talking about professional football teams and their rosters is figuring out who are the jenga pieces. This idea served as our discussion prompt here at BTB last Thursday. In case you missed that or are unaware of what a jenga piece is, here is the 101.

A popular board game (for lack of a better term) is Jenga. The rules of the game are that you have to stack wooden blocks and build as tall of a tower as you can. Once you use all of the blocks you have to remove pieces from the tower you have constructed to build your tower even higher. The trick is that you have to remove pieces carefully and ultimately make the right decision as to which ones you do want to remove so that the tower does not come tumbling down.

Relative to a football roster, we are on the hunt for which Dallas Cowboys players are the critical ones within the structure of the tower. We are talking about the players whom without the whole thing would tumble down. To be clear we are establishing right now that the position of quarterback is uniquely important and that without it the tower does not exist, so we are talking about non-quarterback options.

In terms of the 2025 version of the Dallas Cowboys there are five names that stand out.

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Tyler Guyton​

Ultimately the answer is probably one of two people and that you can sway me in either direction depending on the day or moment. One of these two is second-year left tackle Tyler Guyton.

It makes sense to not panic over Guyton’s lack of an All-Pro first year in the NFL. For so long we were spoiled by the likes of Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick and Zack Martin that we forgot what normal was like for even really, really good offensive line prospects. It takes time, generally speaking, to adjust to the professional level.

Understanding this, so much hinges on Guyton being the guy at left tackle in 2025. We are way past the point of considering Tyler Smith for that spot so this is sort of a situation where it is either going to work or not and the latter is not an option that we want to learn the outcome of.

Given that Guyton is charged with protecting Dak Prescott’s blind spot he holds an extreme level of importance. He is a foundational member to the team and so much of what they are going to do rests upon his shoulders.

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CeeDee Lamb​

This is the other top option and both feel a little bit like cheating since they are extensions to and insurances around the play of the quarterback. Such is life for a team’s left tackle and top pass-catching option.

We have said forever and ever how the Cowboys not having a proper second wideout has hindered the offense (more on that in a bit). While that is true, without their top receiving option they would be up a proverbial creek. For the most part Lamb has been available for the Cowboys since they drafted him (we are somehow entering year six with him on the team) and so we haven’t quite had to learn what life without his services is like.

Can you imagine? Obviously you don’t want to and thankfully after last year’s extension drama we don’t have to. But without doing so we all understand how supremely important Lamb is to what this team is looking to accomplish.

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Micah Parsons​

You can file this under Duh with a capital D. Micah Parsons it the best player on the Cowboys roster so without him they are nowhere near as good. If the team were ever in a situation where his future was even mildly up in the air, say with contract stuff, that they probably would want to take care of that as soon as possible. Thankfully that is not the case oops. Oops.

The reason that Parsons is a bit lower on my list is because he missed time last year, and while the team obviously was not as good without him, they did not totally fall apart. We can attribute this to a variety of things, but the main one is likely that today’s NFL is an offense-driven league and therefore your offensive superstars carry a little more worth in the terms of the discussion that we are having.

To be clear this is in no way to say that Parsons isn’t as valuable, or more valuable, than any one player. It’s just that he missed time last year and that the wheels did not fall off so that makes this conversation in this moment seem strange.

Don’t get it twisted, though. Micah Parsons is essential. Now and always. Pay the man.

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DaRon Bland​

The situation at cornerback makes a player from this group an obvious pick.

Trevon Diggs is regarded as the top corner on the team, but DaRon Bland is more of a jenga piece in this exercise. Consider that we have some questions about Diggs at the moment. Will he be healthy? If so for how long? What is the future like for him with this team? There are some clouds there.

This exacerbates the importance of DaRon Bland. Another way to put this is that he has the highest floor of any corner on the team, and while there are other players who can raise it like if Kaiir Elam hits or Shavon Revel plays himself and is solid, the reality is that Bland is needed and sorely so.

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Brandon Aubrey​

In looking at the comments from our discussion prompt there were a number of people who suggested kicker Brandon Aubrey. I thought about George Pickens for this spot but that just felt like repeating CeeDee Lamb.

Kicking plays a larger role than most people are willing to give credit. Given that the Cowboys arguably have the best kicker in the entire NFL on their roster, that elevates the importance and role that Aubrey plays within the team.

Aubrey’s distance and his control from downtown are specifically what put him in this conversation. You barely have to cross midfield to be in his range which increases your probability of scoring points. Without him and that luxury, the notion of scoring is more taxing (in a literal sense) on the overall operation of the team. He provides a great relief, so to speak.

Aubrey is another player on this list who is currently set to enter the final year of their contract with the Cowboys (along with Parsons there is also Bland in this overall regard) which suggests that the team has some work to do.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...-guyton-micah-parsons-daron-bland-ceedee-lamb

 

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Dueling Cowboys 53-man roster projections heading into training camp

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We are going to see a lot of 53-man roster predictions in the coming weeks.

Every year at around this time, the first 53-man roster projections pop up. And (almost) every year we dutifully chronicle those first roster projections. I usually preface these summaries with an introduction like this:

“Not to be a killjoy here, but if the past 15 years or so that I’ve been intensely following the Dallas Cowboys training camp have taught me anything, it’s that rosters are largely set before the offseason program even begins, and most of the extra players brought in are little more than sparring and training partners for the roster locks.

That is the stark reality of NFL life.

Injuries and standout performances in camp provide the opportunity for maybe a handful of players each year to work their way onto the roster, but that’s pretty much it.”

That sure sounds nice and sufficiently nonchalant to perhaps even appear insightful, but is that actually true?

To find out, I took a look at the roster projections summaries published in July of 2024 and July of 2023.

To my surprise, the panelists we assembled in 2023 (Dave Helman of Foxsports, Todd Archer of ESPN, Jon Machota of The Athletic, and Dan Rogers of Blogging The Boys) averaged just 44 players in their projections that would end up on the Week 1 roster that year. And the panelists in 2024 (Todd Archer, Jon Machota, and Mike Fisher of Cowboys Nation) came in even lower with an average of 43 players. Here’s a quick summary of the results of each of the seven panelists:

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There were, of course, differences in each projection that resulted in the different number of hits. For example - and you may find this hard to believe today - in 2023, then-rookie Brandon Aubrey was heading into a training camp battle with another kicker named Tristan Vizcaino, and one of our panelists picked Vizcaino over Aubrey.

But what is interesting is that in both years, eight players made the Week 1 roster that did not show up on any of the July projections. Some of them are obvious, like players acquired via trade of free agency after the start of training camp, others perhaps less so, like former late-round picks or UDFAs that either benefited from an injury to a player at the same position or played themselves onto the roster with a good training camp performance. Here’s an overview of those players and how they came to join the roster:

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Noah Igbinoghene​

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Jordan Phillips​

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Trey Lance​

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Andrew Booth​

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Linval Joseph​

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Nick Vigil​

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Buddy Johnson​

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Israel Mukuamu (6th)​

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Juanyeh Thomas​

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Tyrus Wheat​

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Rico Dowdle​

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So now we know that rosters might not be quite as set as they may appear; the Cowboys can still bring in new players, and there may be down-roster players who’ll play themselves onto a spot on the 53-mn roster. Keep that in mind as you review the dueling roster projections by Jon Machota of The Athletic and Joseph Hoyt of the DMN below.

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Machota and Hoyt are largely aligned on offense, with some differences on the number of players the Cowboys will carry at WR, RB, and OL. Is this the chance for downroster guys like Ryan Flournoy or maybe John Stevens to make a push for a roster spot?

Not a lot of surprises on defense either:

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As far as projections go, these two have probably summarized the general sentiment about the roster pretty well at this point of the offseason.

Suspensions (knock on wood), trades, injuries (knock on wood three times), and other things of that nature (knock on wood vigorously) tend to disrupt these projections. But that’s also where depth guys then get to step up and seize their opportunity.

What’s your take on the two projections above, and where do you think they got it wrong?

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...ining-camp-player-additions-trade-free-agents

 

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Cowboys survey: Predicting the season with training camp roster

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How many wins do you think the Cowboys will finish this season with?

We’ve almost made it. The vast void of the offseason is quickly coming to a close. In a week, the Dallas Cowboys will be in Oxnard, California opening training camp and pushing the 2025 season on to the stage.

At this point, we have a pretty good idea of who will be on the roster. Sure, changes will be made around the edges, but the bulk of the 2025 team is already signed.

Given that, we thought it would be a good time to read the room on expectations for the Cowboys 2025 season. A lot has changed since those early weeks of the offseason when Jerry Jones was still negotiating with Mike McCarthy for a return.

Since then, we have seen the Cowboys turn to Brian Schottenheimer as a head coach and many Cowboys fans have been pleasantly surprised about his early work as head coach. The Cowboys also made an effort in free agency, made some trades that included the big one for George Pickens, and they had a pretty good draft.

We have also learned that Dak Prescott is fully recovered from injury and will be a full-go at training camp. And we also know their schedule of who, when and where they will play.

Now that we are on the precipice of training camp, we wanted your opinion on how many games the Cowboys will win this year.

Vote in the poll then hit the comments.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Dallas Cowboys fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...dicting-season-win-total-training-camp-roster

 

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3 biggest surprises from Cowboys roster moves

A lot has happened in the last few days, leaving the Cowboys with a very current version of a 53-man roster. From cuts to injury designations to even a trade, which of Dallas’ various moves were the most surprising? And are any of them only a temporary stunner?

OL Asim Richards traded​

The Cowboys were able to get a little something for a player they were supposedly going to cut. And when we say “a little something,” it’s about as small as it gets. Dallas sent Richards and a 2028 seventh-round pick to New Orleans in exchange for the Saints’ sixth-round pick that year. So yeah, it’ll be three years before we reap the benefit of the move; the phrase “better than nothing” being stretched to its absolute limit.

In a media session just after Tuesday’s cut deadline, Brian Schottenheimer said Richards was traded because he wasn’t going to make the roster. The 2023 fifth-rounder was passed by Nathan Thomas as the team’s backup left tackle, making him vulnerable. But given Dallas’ current state at the position, it’s surprising that they wouldn’t hang on to Richards for at least a couple more weeks.

Starting LT Tyler Guyton has made great strides towards returning from a training camp knee injury, including returning to limited practice on Monday. But while he maintains that he’ll play next Thursday night in Philadelphia, the team hasn’t confirmed that. Asking Guyton to travel and play after about a month’s absence, and especially in such a crucial game, may be too much.

If Guyton is inactive for Week 1, Thomas is the starting left tackle. Richards would have been his backup based on experience and where guys have been deployed during practices and preseason games this summer. Other reserve tackles like the released Hakeem Adeniji and rookie Ajani Cornelius had been focused on the right side, backing up Terence Steele.

Now, if Guyton’s out and something happens to Thomas, the Cowboys would have to choose between sliding LG Tyler Smith over to tackle or inserting the rookie Cornelius. If they move Smith, you’d probably have T.J. Bass or Brock Hoffman stepping in at guard. It’s hardly ideal to have so many moving parts, but that’s the risk Dallas could be running without Richards. Hopefully, the fact that they were willing to do it is a sign that they’re confident in Guyton’s return.

DB Israel Mukuamu released​

This one was a head-scratcher, but perhaps only for a short time. After a reportedly strong spring and summer in practices, the fifth-year veteran was part of the final cuts. But Mukuamu is not subject to waivers, so this could just be a short-term move as they’ll soon move Caelen Carson to injured reserve.

Dallas has a few cut veterans expected to get reemployed soon. Special teamer C.J. Goodwin is one of them, as usual, as is OT Hakeem Adeniji. The Cowboys are expected to place Carson and RB Phil Mafah on IR shortly, making them eligible to return after at least four games, then re-sign two of the guys they just released. Many are assuming that Goodwin and Adeniji will be the two.

What if there’s a third guy headed to IR? You never know when an “injury” can suddenly rear its head during cut week. In that case, Mukuamu would make a lot of sense to be brought back. You already need a fifth cornerback after losing Carson, because Goodwin doesn’t really qualify anymore. Mukuamu also gives you a fifth body at safety and is a special teamer, so good value all around.

If that happens, the move becomes far less surprising. But if this is truly the end of Mukuamu’s run in Dallas, it’s a surprise that he didn’t make it over Andrew Booth. Not only has he been a seemingly better player in his limited opportunities, but he fills spots on multiple depth charts. Still, Booth seems to be ascending in the eyes of the coaches, and is a more traditional player at cornerback. Hopefully, we see the same thing if he plays any significant reps in 2025.

Six defensive ends​

It was great to see James Houston, one of the top performers of August, get his deserved spot on the roster. But the surprise is that Dallas didn’t drop or trade anyone else to do it, and is now carrying six defensive ends. That’s an unusually long depth chart, especially considering that five of them are mainly pass rushers. But it may tell us something about the future of one of the other DEs.

One possibility is that the Cowboys are actively trying to trade Sam Williams, who has just one year left on his rookie contract. He won’t have great value after a missed season with a torn ACL, but Williams was once a second-round pick. If another team has a surplus at RB, OL, or DT and could use a pass rusher, perhaps a deal gets made in the coming days.

Another, and far scarier, possibility is that this has to do with the potential absence of Micah Parsons. Whether it be due to a holdout or health, or an even crazier scenario where he’s traded, Parsons still isn’t a sure thing for Week 1. We’d still expect Dante Fowler and Donovan Ezeiruaku to get heavy work in that case, but Houston and Williams suddenly become much more important.

Source: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/dal.../3-biggest-surprises-roster-moves-cuts-53-man