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The Dallas Cowboys are hoping Winfrey proves them right.
So when defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey said that Schottenheimer wanted to see him in his office, he assumed that his time with the Cowboys was coming to a close. Winfrey had rebounded after being released by the Cleveland Browns after just one season because of multiple legal issues off the field. He was out of the NFL for almost two years, but when he arrived at training camp for the Cowboys, he had shined in a defensive tackle room in desperate need of some life.
However, it was beginning to look like his strong preseason would just barely not be enough — at least to him.
“He assumed he was being cut,” Schottenheimer said. “He walked in, sat down in my office. [Vice president of player personnel] Will McClay and I were in there. We played it up a bit. I was a good actor.”
Schottenheimer opened his conversation with Winfrey with a negative tone, playing into the idea that he thought he was being cut.
“These are hard days,” Schottenheimer told Winfrey. “And there are a lot of hard conversations that you have to have. But this is one that I’ve been looking forward to, because I’m telling you that you made the team.”
The front office opted to get value for Asim Richards instead of outright releasing him.
The flurry of NFL transactions ahead of Tuesday’s cutdown deadline are also aren’t simply about the daunting task of reducing the roster headcount from 90 to 53, and the Dallas Cowboys are making additional moves to try and give themselves ammunition — a decision tied to Asim Richards having been made.
Richards will not be on the Cowboys’ roster in 2025, and he’s been be traded to the New Orleans Saints along with a 2028 seventh-round pick in exchange for a 2028 sixth-round pick, and the young offensive lineman will now be under the wing of Kellen Moore, whom the Cowboys know very well from his time in Dallas as a quarterback, quarterbacks’ coach and offensive coordinator prior to departing following the 2022 season.
A fifth-round pick in 2023, Richards made his way to Dallas after a standout career for the University of North Carolina, one that saw him elevate himself as one of the top offensive tackles in the nation.
His initial season in the NFL saw him get work on the offensive interior due to a rash of injuries amongst teammates, but the 24-year-old was ultimately moved back to tackle, where he spent a good bit of this year’s training camp in competition with players like Nate Thomas, Hakeem Adeniji and Ajani Cornelius.
