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Getty Images Whether the Cowboys sign running back Ezekiel Elliott to a long-term deal or not is going to be an open question for at least a little while, but there wasn’t any doubt about their desire to have him on hand in 2020. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said recently...

Getty Images Cowboys center Travis Frederick is back working with his teammates in the team’s offseason program after missing all of last season when he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Frederick said that the thought he’d never be able to play again crossed his mind after being...

Getty Images Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones gave an update last week about the team’s conversations with wide receiver Amari Cooper about a new contract and Cooper got a chance to share his side of things over the weekend. Cooper said he’s “more focused on actually playing and...

Getty Images The Cowboys are happy with their 2019 first-round pick. His name is Amari Cooper. Dallas traded its first-round choice to the Raiders for Cooper, who caught 53 passes for 725 yards and six touchdowns in nine games last season. Dak Prescott averaged 7.71 yards per attempt with...

Getty Images The Saints got the short straw at the start of the season, with games out of the gates against the Texans on Monday night, at the Rams on a short week, at the Seahawks a week later, and at home against the Cowboys. G.M. Mickey Loomis has no problem with a challenging opening...

Getty Images When Cowboys COO Stephen Jones recently tried to make the case for quarterback Dak Prescott not being paid like Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson, a reasonable reaction may have been this: Does Dak Prescott actually want to be paid like Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson? Maybe Dak...

Getty Images Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee said after the season ended in Los Angeles that he needed time “to figure things out” regarding his future. It turns out, it didn’t take Lee long. Although his return didn’t become official until he agreed to a restructured contract in March, Lee made...

Getty Images The Cowboys were unwilling to meet Earl Thomas‘ contract demands in free agency, but they did sign George Iloka. While Iloka isn’t Thomas, his addition does ease the team’s concerns about the position. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said getting a safety with the...

Getty Images Now that we have the “when” to attach to the “who” and the “where,” the full slate of 256 regular-season games is known. Which games, then, are the best of those? Simms and I discussed the best options, via a PFT Live draft. Spoiler alert: I gave Simms the first pick, and he...

Getty Images The Cowboys drafted Connor Williams in the second round last year and handed him the starting left guard job. He started eight games before a knee injury, but his replacement, Xavier Su'a-Filo, was better. Williams started two games at the end of the season at right guard in place...

Getty Images Friday’s PFT Live co-host, Charean Williams, has covered the Cowboys for two of the three decades that Jerry Jones has owned the team. So we dedicated Friday’s draft to some of the more interesting things Jerry has said over the years. Given that Jones’ Hall of Fame induction...

Getty Images Five of the Cowboys’ past six first-round draft picks have made the Pro Bowl. Travis Frederick, Zack Martin, Byron Jones, Ezekiel Elliott and Leighton Vander Esch have started a combined 268 games with 13 Pro Bowls and five All-Pros among them. Taco Charlton, the 28th overall...

Getty Images A pair of 2018 playoff teams will square off in the first Monday night game of the 2019 season. The NFL’s schedule was released on Wednesday night and it shows that the Texans will be in New Orleans to face the Saints on Monday Night Football in Week One. In addition to that...

Getty Images The NFL has scheduled 10 teams to make five prime-time appearances during the 2019 season. That list includes both of the teams playing in the opening game of the year. The Packers and Bears will face off on Thursday, September 5 in a matchup chosen to celebrate the NFL’s 100th...

Getty Images The Cowboys have a new tradition that involves Thanksgiving Day. For the fourth consecutive year and the sixth time in history, the Cowboys will play the Thursday after Thanksgiving, too. They host the Bills on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, this season and then travel to Chicago the...

Getty Images In 2006, when Monday Night Football moved from ABC to ESPN and Sunday Night Football moved from ESPN to NBC, the top prime-time game of the year became the Sunday night game. This year will be no different. Here’s the full slate of NBC’s Sunday night games: Week One, Steelers at...

Getty Images Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones didn’t surprise anyone when he confirmed on Wednesday that the team will be exercising its 2020 option on running back Ezekiel Elliott‘s contract, but that wasn’t the only backfield topic to come up at the team’s pre-draft press...

Getty Images The 49ers reinstated defensive lineman Cedric Thornton from the reserve/retired list, according to the NFL’s transactions wire. Thornton retired last Aug. 22 after seven years in the NFL. Thornton, 30, signed a free agent deal with the 49ers last July 26. He spent the 2017 season...

Getty Images Until Monday, Cowboys center Travis Frederick hadn’t worked out with his teammates since training camp. He joined them for the first day of offseason workouts after sitting out last season with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that attack the nervous system. “It’s...

Getty Images The Cowboys have one long-term deal done with more to go. With defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence out of the way, the Cowboys have started work on the contracts of receiver Amari Cooper and quarterback Dak Prescott. “Yeah, we’re always open to looking at things,” Cowboys executive...