With training camp less than a month away, the Dallas Cowboys have two open roster spots they can fill before the team reports to Oxnard, California.
Former first-round pick Takk McKinley was cut by the team a few weeks ago, leaving them with two spots on their 90-man roster that need to be filled.
The NFL currently allows teams to have 90 players on their active rosters for the start of training camp but will need to be trimmed to 53 players as they near the start of the regular season.
It’s June, so rumors love to float around about who a team may sign, etc.
Not so much a rumor, but Bleacher Report dropped an idea of Dallas looking to bring in free-agent linebacker Deion Jones.
Jones played for Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn when he was the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons.
Jones is only 28 years old and made the Pro Bowl in 2017 while playing for Quinn.
He had his worst season as a pro in 2022 with the Browns. Jones started only five games and could only muster 44 tackles, 2.5 sacks.
Don’t let that unproductive year with the Browns fool you. He can still play at a high level.
Dallas has depth at linebacker with guys like Jabril Cox and DeMarvion Overshown, who they drafted in the third round. The problem is Dallas needs a bigger backer that can help stop the run, like Jones.
Plugging Jones into a defense that needs run help, instantly makes it better than it was the day before.
What does it hurt? If Dallas adds him as a body for training camp, they can just cut him if he doesn’t stand out over the younger players at the position.
It’s not like the team has to commit to him if they bring him in.
The team has two open roster spots they should use on a kicker, and then what?
Either a running back. Or a guy like Jones, who fits perfectly into the current system. Reuniting with the guy who drafted him in the second round in 2015.
This is an idea for one of the two open roster spots the Cowboys currently have. Once training camp is over, if Jones didn’t stand out, he would be cut anyway.
The teams have to trim the roster to 53 before the regular season.
The team will waste a spot on someone other than a kicker, and we all will hate it anyway.
Why not bring in a guy who could make the 53 and bring what they need?
The Cowboys roster is loaded, and for the first thing in a long time, the front office did what they needed to do to try and end the 28-year title drought.
I know it gets annoying, but all we can do is talk right now in June.