Yes, you read that correctly, the Dallas Cowboys have a total of 22 pending free agents heading into the 2026 offseason.

16 of those 22 are unrestricted, meaning their contracts have expired and are completely free to negotiate and sign with any team in the league, with no compensation owed to the Dallas Cowboys.

With that said, I will drop all of those pending free agents here in a moment, and then I will get into the ones that I think Dallas should bring back for the 2026 season.

Pending Free Agents

So 22 players will be a lot...

Cowboys add former Cardinals HC, ex-Ravens LB to interview slate for coordinator job – Todd Brock, The Cowboys Wire

The Cowboys get judged on process just as much as results when it comes to coaching hires, which has made the latest defensive coordinator search interesting.

The list of known candidates for the position formerly occupied by Matt Eberflus is now up to six. Vikings pass game coordinator Daronte Jones and Browns safeties coach Ephraim Banda interviewed on Friday; Broncos pass game coordinator Jim Leonhard met with the team on Saturday. Current Cowboys defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton made...

If it seems like nearly every decision made by the Dallas Cowboys’ front office this century has been wrong, that would be because that is precisely the case.

From draft picks to free agency moves and trades to coaching changes. When viewed in retrospect, they all have one thing in common.

Most of the time, the Cowboys made the wrong choice.

Draft Busts Abound

For every one pick Dallas got right, the next dozen or so were busts. The Cowboys made 23 picks in the three drafts combined between 2000-2002.

They only got two of them right in defensive...

The Houston Texans beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night and in the process advanced to the Divisional Round of the playoffs. They will visit the New England Patriots on Sunday afternoon.

When the Texans head to Foxborough they will do so seeking their first Conference Championship Game appearance in franchise history. We obviously know a thing or two about title game droughts around here, but it is territory that Houston has literally never conquered. That isn’t so bad when you remember that they have been around since 2002.

In the early 2010s it felt like there was a slight...

One more NFL Wild Card playoff game, and it is tonight. The Texans take on the Steelers.

This is an open thread for game chat.

It’s no secret that the linebacker spot was one of the Dallas Cowboys’ weakest position groups last season. In the offseason, Dallas brought in a pair of veterans, Kenneth Murray and Jack Sanborn, hoping a change of scenery could bring out the best in the two veterans.

Unfortunately for the Cowboys, both acquisitions ended up not helping the team at all. Murray was undoubtedly one of the worst-performing linebackers in all of football, while Sanborn played in just six games before his season was ended due to a groin injury.

Outside of Murray and Sanborn, Dallas’s trio of young linebackers,...

Despite leading 21-3 in the first half, the Green Bay Packers fell victim to an epic Chicago Bears comeback and were bounced from the wild card round, 31-27. This is great news for the Dallas Cowboys, as the Packers’ loss secured them the 20th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft courtesy of the Micah Parsons trade. Had the Packers won, that pick would have slid down to 25, and potentially even worse if Green Bay kept winning. Fortunately, that’s no longer a concern, and the Cowboys will now have two top 20 picks for the first time since 2005,...

The Dallas Cowboys did their first round of interviews for their next defensive coordinator over the weekend. While the front office said they would cast a wide net during the search, there is a rumor the team could already have its eye on who will replace Matt Eberflus.

Cowboys insider Bobby Belt for Shan & RJ on 105.3 The Fan had an update Monday morning on where things stand with the team and their vacancy at the coordinator position. Here is what he texted Shan:

“I texted Bobby last night and I said is there any update, any movement?...

We have reached the second week of the offseason for the Dallas Cowboys and on some level it doesn’t really feel like it.

Maybe this is the case because there are still actively NFL games going on. Things stay pretty busy even after the Super Bowl with the NFL combine beginning and free agency not to far behind. We still have a little bit of a ways to go before we are truly wandering through the desert, so to speak.

Perhaps the reason things feel this way is because there is hope around the Cowboys for the first time in...

The Cowboys hold picks 12 and 20 in the 2026 NFL Draft, and their track record in this exact range tells a story fans shouldn’t ignore.

I’ve watched enough Cowboys drafts to know when something feels different, and this one does.

The Dallas Cowboys don’t usually sit in the middle of the first round with leverage. We have watched the Cowboys either picking late, or scrambling to make up ground.

But in the 2026 NFL Draft, Dallas holding two first-round picks, No.12 and No.20, immediately stood out to me. Why?

Because I have seen this exact draft range work for...

The Dallas Cowboys thought they got a gift from the Chicago Bears way back before even hiring head coach Brian Schottenheimer, when they were able to hire their former coach Matt Eberflus as defensive coordinator after the Bears relieved him of head coaching duties. As we all know at this point, that did not work out in the slightest, but that doesn’t mean a gift from the Bears wasn’t still on the way. Ben Johnson’s Bears handed the Cowboys one of their worst losses of the 2025 season all the way back in week three, but they also earned their...

While the players clearly didn’t get the job done on the field in the 2025 season, some members of the team’s coaching staff earned a share of blame for the 7-9-1 record the Dallas Cowboys finished with.

Especially on the defensive side of the ball.

First year head coach Brian Schottenheimer did manage to invigorate the Cowboys’ offense in 2025. Dak Prescott had perhaps his best season yet.

Dallas had a pair of thousand-yard receivers in CeeDee Lamb and a 1,000-yard rusher in Javonte Williams.

The Cowboys scored 471 points for the season, the fourth highest in the team’s 66...