Well, after Saturday, the Dallas Cowboys will only have one preseason game left, and soon it will be Sunday Night football against the New York Giants on the opening Sunday of the season.
Before we get there though, that also means time is running out for a few players that are now fighting for their spot on the final 53-man roster.
Let me first say, you don’t have to agree with this, but that is why these are my thoughts, and if you do some research, it has become clear that players we thought might have been safe a month ago, now need a good showing in the last 20 or so days to make the roster.
Marist Liufau
Remember when we all told ourselves that in order for the Cowboys defense to improve from a year ago, Marist Liufau would need to make a splash with his position change?
Liufau had a chance to hang on to a back-end roster spot as he learns a new position, but the Cowboys signed proven pass-rusher Von Miller, who led the Washington Commanders with nine sacks last year.
Miller, Rashan Gary, Donovan Ezeiruaku, rookie first-rounder Malachi Lawrence, Sam Williams and James Houston are ahead of Marist on the depth chart.
The time is clearing ticking for him, and unless he does something outstanding in the next preseason games or Houston gets cut, I don’t think he makes the roster.
I would rather have Houston over Marist, and everyone should agree with that.
Luke Schoonmaker
This really is not even up for debate. The writing is on the wall for Luke Schoonmaker. He probably would have made the roster if the Cowboys had not added Michael Trigg as a UDFA, but so much for that.
@BobbyBeltTX breaks down where things stand in the tight end room heading into roster cuts.
Trigg looked very good in his first preseason game, and is just a better overall player with what the offense is looking for than Schoonmaker is. Don’t give me the garbage about how Trigg can’t block when the Cowboys have one of the BEST running blocking tight ends in all of football in Brev Spann-Ford.
They just don’t need to keep Schoonmaker on the team. His time is ticking, but maybe they keep four tight ends rather than him being cut? That just seems so wasteful.
Sam Williams
There is always going to be a guy that gets cut that we don’t think should or will, and then bam it happens.
Sam Williams’ heat has been picking up as of late. Just google his name before you make a comment about this.
Articles about him being a potential cut guy, to should the Cowboys trade Sam Williams, it is not just me thinking about the same thing.
Again, I don’t think they should cut him, but one surprise always happens and I think it will come on the defensive side of the ball, Williams has had a very good, productive training camp, so the chips are in a good corner right now.
I only say the time is ticking on Williams because they added Von Miller and they are going to look for guys that can make it easier on the team to cut.
Williams had a great start to his career with 8.5 sacks over his first two years as a rotational player at defensive end, but injury derailed his third year, and he hasn’t looked like the same player since.
You could flip Williams out for Houston, but if you had to pick between the two, who would you keep? The culture is changing in Dallas this offseason and Houston just seems to fit the mold better than Sam has.
I like both, I would keep both, but this would not shock me if it happened is all I am saying.
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