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Getty Images Jason Witten is no longer a member of the Cowboys, but he’s still available for the player set to replace him as the team’s starting tight end. Blake Jarwin said Witten reached out to him recently to talk about the “awesome opportunity” that’s in front of him this season. Jarwin...

Getty Images The Cowboys have had a long line of great quarterbacks, but Danny White and Tony Romo didn’t quite ascend to the level of Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman because they never won a Super Bowl. (In fact, neither White nor Romo even got to a Super Bowl as a starting quarterback.)...

Getty Images In any given year, Patriots coach Bill Belichick deserves serious consideration for the coach of the year award. This year, he’s one of the favorites to win it. Via FanDuel, Belichick (who already has three coach of the year trophies on the mantle) and Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy...

Getty Images The Jets aren’t interested in doing a long-term deal with Jamal Adams right now because of the uncertainty of how COVID-19 might affect the season. The All-Pro safety isn’t interested in waiting. Because contract talks have reached a stalemate, speculation has run rampant about...

Getty Images The center position is one of the few question marks in the Cowboys’ starting lineup. That’s because Travis Frederick retired this offseason. Joe Looney, rookie Tyler Biadasz, Connor Williams and Connor McGovern are candidates for the job. The Cowboys will miss Frederick, and...

Getty Images Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested in Palm Springs, California, on Friday for misdemeanor domestic battery, TMZSports.com reports. Leaf’s bail was set for $5,000. The Chargers selected Leaf with the second overall choice in 1998, but his career did not last long. He...

Getty Images During Friday’s PFT Live, Big Cat and I spent some time making sense of the current status of the negotiations between Dak Prescott and the Cowboys. And Big Cat, as he often sometimes seldom does, raised an intriguing point: If, as Big Cat explained it, the Cowboys were sold on...

Getty Images After the Cowboys made receiver CeeDee Lamb the 17th overall selection, they offered him a choice in jersey numbers. No. 10 or No. 88. The Cowboys have had 13 players wear No. 10, none of them particularly noteworthy with Reggie Collier and Tavon Austin the most well known. They...

Getty Images Jets safety Jamal Adams has made it clear he wants a long-term deal. He is not taking part in the team’s virtual offseason program to make it even more clear. Although Jets General Manager Joe Douglas repeatedly has said the team wants to sign Adams to a long-term deal, Adams’...

Getty Images Aldon Smith has been reinstated to the NFL after a long substance abuse suspension, and despite a nearly five-year layoff, he says he can still be the All-Pro he once was. Smith told TMZ.com that he sees no reason he can’t be the guy on the field who had 19.5 sacks in 2012, plus a...

Getty Images The Cowboys are focused on getting quarterback Dak Prescott signed to a new deal before the July 15 deadline for finalizing multi-year contracts with franchise-tagged players. And regardless of whatever has been said or speculated or reported or whatever regarding the negotiations...

Getty Images The new substance-abuse policy ends the practice of imposing suspensions on players who test positive for marijuana or other non-PEDS. However, that protection doesn’t extend to players who have been suspended for more than a year and then reinstated. For the same reason Smith...

Getty Images Aldon Smith earned his second chance Wednesday, with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell granting the edge rusher’s reinstatement application. The Cowboys continue to await word on edge rusher Randy Gregory. The team hopes Smith and Gregory can fill a pass rushing need opposite...

Getty Images If the NFL plays a season without fans in the stands, it’s a given that the NFL will lose money. Mike Ozanian of Forbes.com estimates that loss at a staggering $5.5 billion. That’s the sum of lost ticket revenue, concessions, parking, and merchandise sales, if all games are...

Getty Images Aldon Smith, the seventh overall pick in the 2011 draft who last played in 2015, is back in the NFL. A source with direct knowledge of the situation tells PFT that Smith’s application for reinstatement under the substance-abuse policy has been granted. Smith, who has played for...

Getty Images Cowboys owner Jerry Jones conducted the team’s draft from his yacht, but he was back to taking care of team business on dry ground Tuesday. Jones was in his office at the team’s facility in Frisco, Texas on the first day that it was permitted to open back up by the NFL. “This is...

Getty Images Texas is readying to welcome back pro sports to the state. Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday afternoon that “Texas is prepared to move into Phase 2 for further reopening of business.” The Genesys 600 NTT IndyCar Series race at Texas Motor Speedway is scheduled for June 6, a...

Getty Images Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers said recently that if LeBron James had played football he would have been better than Tom Brady, better than Jerry Rice, better than Jim Brown, Tony Gonzalez, Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders or Dick Butkus. All of them. Any of them. “I really...

Getty Images Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch had neck surgery after the 2019 season and initial word from the team was that they expected him to be able to do some work during the offseason program. That was the plan, anyway. Vander Esch and the Cowboys were forced to pivot to new...

Getty Images Since the Cowboys drafted Leighton Vander Esch in the first round in 2018, talk has persisted that Jaylon Smith would move to weakside linebacker. Smith remained at middle linebacker the past two seasons with Vander Esch playing the weakside (when healthy). The Cowboys, though...