After word circulated Wednesday that the Cowboys had an interest in speaking with former Jets skipper Robert Saleh about their top job, a second name popped up: another longtime defensive strategist with head coaching experience on his extensive résumé.

Current Seahawks assistant head coach Leslie Frazier has been requested for an interview with Dallas to take place next week, perhaps as early as Monday. That news was first reported by ESPN’s Todd Archer.

Frazier, who will turn 66 in April, began his NFL career as a cornerback for the Chicago Bears in the early 1980s and was a member of the legendary 1985 defense that led the franchise to its only Super Bowl victory.

He segued to coaching shortly after his playing days were done, launching the football program at Trinity International University of the NAIA in 1988 and winning two conference titles in nine seasons. Two years at Illinois followed as defensive backs coach before he made a jump to the NFL.

Frazier started with the Eagles as DB coach for four years, then moved to Cincinnati to be defensive coordinator for another two. A two-year stint in Indianapolis- and a Super Bowl win as the Colts’ assistant head coach- followed before he landed in Minnesota.

With the Vikings, he graduated from defensive coordinator to assistant head coach to interim head coach and then finally the official replacement for Brad Childress in 2011. Frazier held that post for three campaigns before he was eventually fired, having logged an overall mark of 21-32-1 as the team’s head coach.

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Frazier moved to Tampa for two years as DC and then did a season as Baltimore’s secondary coach before making his way to Buffalo. The Bills’ DC for three seasons, he then added assistant head coach to his job title in 2020 and maintained those responsibilities until the conclusion of the 2022 season.

Frazier took a year off in 2023, to concentrate on prepping himself for what he hoped would be a head coaching opportunity somewhere.

“It’s forced me to broaden my horizons a little bit,” Frazier told CBS Sports last January as the 2024 hiring cycle began, “looking at the league from a global standpoint as opposed to just a team that I’m on and just the opponent that we’re getting prepared for. It’s forced me to see the league in its entirety and it’s helped me to get more involved in some of the angles that allow you to win.”

Frazier did make a return to the sidelines in 2024… but once again as an assistant head coach. This time it was in Seattle under new man Mike Macdonald. The Seahawks finished 10-7, good for second place in the NFC West, but they did not make the playoffs.

Though he has not held a head coaching position since 2013, Frazier has been active on the interview circuit in the years since. The Colts, Giants, Bears, Texans, and Dolphins have all had sit-downs with him.

And now Dallas.