Rookie Anthony Smith has good reason to be hopeful in his first Cowboys training camp. Dallas has an established history of finding useful wide receiver talent in the late rounds of the draft: Ryan Flournoy, Cedrick Wilson, and Noah Brown are prime examples. Smith looks to join that list in 2026.

Background

Years in NFL: 0
Acquired by: 2026 7th-round pick

After being buried on the depth chart at N.C. State for a few years, Smith transferred to East Carolina in 2024. He started every game for the Pirates over the last two seasons, making 2025 his best yet...

It is happening. Soon enough there will be afternoon football played at AT&T Stadium and curtains will be hung to combat the sun’s infamous glare within the building. Finally.

Oh. The thing is. It’s for futbol. Not football.

The curtains at AT&T Stadium will be up during an afternoon football game this year — just not during one played by the Dallas Cowboys.

The Cowboys’ home will host five FIFA World Cup group stage matches this summer and curtains will be up to block the notorious sunlight that shines through the west-facing windows of the stadium during...

The more this Josh Sweat situation develops, the harder it is for the Cowboys to ignore.

Some rumors are just dust in the wind. They float around for a day or two, give folks something to fuss about, and disappear before anybody has to take them seriously.

This one feels different. It has some roots to it.

I like this one because it’s a real Cowboys need with an NFC East twist, and the kind of coaching connection that makes a front office conversation worth having.

This Could Be More Than Another Cowboys Rumor

Not every name belongs...

Bill Parcells was always fond of saying he was in the talent acquisition business, and in that regard he was no different than the staff members on any of the 32 NFL teams. The NFL is constantly looking for new talent to upgrade its teams, and while the draft and college free agents are the biggest source of new talent, another key source of talent are the rosters of other NFL teams.

Free-agent signings, trade acquisitions, waiver claims, and players signed off another team’s practice squad mean there’s a lot of coming and going on an NFL roster, especially now...

Tony Pollard coming back to the Dallas Cowboys sounds like one of those ideas that starts as fan talk, gets passed around the internet, and then everybody argues about it, but from a football standpoint I think it makes sense.

Not because Tony Pollard needs to come back as the star, not because us Cowboys fans should chase old highlights like a dog chasing a truck, and not because Dallas should pretend it is still 2022.

It makes sense in my head because Pollard might finally fit the role he should have had all along.

He doesn’t have to be...

Spagnola: Revealing answer to pressing question – Mickey Spagnola, DallasCowboys.com

What should the Cowboys do next to help their roster?

FRISCO, Texas – On a drizzly Thursday out here at The Star, around noonish while the Cowboys defensive players were out on the two fields briefly covered by water during a Tuesday one-hour monsoon going through their Phase II offseason drills, had time to reconsider last week’s answer to this question:

What other roster moves are needed?

My initial inclination was sticking to my previous answer for weeks: Inside linebacker.

But after all, the Cowboys...

June 1 is the next important date on the NFL calendar. Teams around the league will have this date circled as it allows for players to be cut or traded with their dead money being spread out between the 2026 and 2027 seasons instead of eating the full cost. This salary-cap saving tool could be utilized for several organizations looking to become more financially flexible.

One such organization is the Philadelphia Eagles. It’s the worst kept secret the league Philadelphia plans on trading their All-Pro wide receiver A.J. Brown post-June 1. By doing so the Eagles can save quite a...

In early May last year, Bet MGM released their post-draft NFL Over/Under win totals for all 32 teams. Nine months later the Seahawks (7.5 projected wins) beat the Patriots (7.5 wins) in the Super Bowl. Neither team had even been projected to make the playoffs, much less play in the Super Bowl.

But such are the vagaries of pre-season win projections.

Technically, the post-draft win projections have free agency, the draft, coaching changes, and anything else that happened since the end of the previous season priced in. But much more importantly, the oddsmakers are trying to provide odds where the...

The Dallas Cowboys defense was absolutely putrid a season ago. They were one of the worst, if not the worst, defensive units in the entire league, finishing near the bottom in every single category. There were a few bright spots from their play last year, and rookie linebacker Shemar James may have been one of them.

Shemar James was the 152nd overall pick in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He got off to a slow start in his rookie season after being inactive for three games, but finally made his NFL debut in...

Just a little over a week stands between the Dallas Cowboys and the start of 2026 OTAs. While the offseason has not fully come to an end, Dallas and the other 31 NFL franchises have made almost all of the significant moves they will make before the start of training camp.

Dallas’ roster looks significantly different from what it did at this time last year, particularly on the defensive side of the ball. With that thought in mind, today we continue our series ranking the top 10 players on the Cowboys roster for the 2026 season.

8. Tyler Booker ---------------...

The Dallas Cowboys don’t need to hire a detective to figure out what went wrong last season. We all know the defense sunk the team.

That’s basically the whole story. Dallas has shown it can score with anyone. The problem is the Cowboys spent too much of last season asking the offense to win games twice—once against the opponent and once against its own defense.

That’s a hard way to survive in the NFL, but history says it is not a death sentence.

Since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, only eight teams have finished a season with a top-three scoring offense...

The 2026 Dallas Cowboys schedule came out last week and as it did travel plans were set in motion among many of us. Having the schedule makes everything more real, and given that it occurred after the NFL draft and (obviously) free agency this year, it was the last major milestone to cross before the doldrums of the offseason set in.

Simply put, all major things that can happen before next season begins have happened.

Having the schedule also makes predicting the games easier, or at the very least more fun. We knew since last season ended who and where...