Notable headlines surrounding America’s team.
Dallas Cowboys edge rusher sends major warning to rest of NFL- Matt Galatzan, Sports Illustrated
A comeback season from Sam Williams would go a long way.
However, the Cowboys were also missing one of their top pass rushers for the entire year after Sam Williams went down with an injury before the start of the 2024 season.
And now, according to Williams himself, he is not only healthy and ready to get back to the field, but during a podcast appearance with Law Nation Sports, he sent a warning to the rest of the NFL, letting his opposition know that he is coming back with a vengeance.
“All that new coach, new that, this this, it doesn’t matter. I’m fixing to go kill some sh*t,” Williams said. “End of the story. Somebody gonna feel me, bro. I’ve been off of this for what, a year? They’ve gotta feel me. They’re gonna know every game.”
Adding Williams back into the fold is going to be a major win for the Cowboys’ defense heading into a very difficult 2025 slate.
The Cowboys Cornerstones: Ranking Dallas’ Top 5 Players in 2025 – Mark Heaney, Inside The Star
Dallas has no shortage of talent heading into the season.
2. CeeDee Lamb: Sights Set High With New Sidekick
If Dallas hadn’t made a blockbuster trade for George Pickens, the offense would have been in serious danger. It is also what moves superstar wide receiver, CeeDee Lamb, down to two on my ranking.
The former Oklahoma Sooner is one of the best in the league at his position, and now he’s joined by an actual WR2, which should take some volume away.
It doesn’t mean he won’t hit the 150 target mark, but we should see a big impact from Pickens.
Larger than the one that guys like Jalen Tolbert and Brandin Cooks have had in years past, to say the least.
In 2025, everybody knows Lamb is one of two offensive Cowboys cornerstones, and he remains a consistent OPOY candidate as long as his cleats are on grass. He is a dominant force on offense who is just getting started.
Cowboys fortified OL with versatile, $3.7 million reclamation project – K.D. Drummond, Cowboys Wire
Not a flashy signing, but a necessary one.
[Hakeem] Adeniji has started 15 games across his career, all at various positions over his first three years with the Cincinnati Bengals. He has played both guard and tackle, which could lead him to regular game-day rosters if he makes the Dallas 53 coming out of training camp.
His presence as a Top-8 lineman would allow Dallas to move players around to still present a best-five regardless of where an injury occurred.
This long-overdue Cowboys cut could finally be happening – Jerry Trotta, The Landry Hat
Deuce is fun, but he might not be what Dallas needs heading into the season.
Machota believes that vets Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders, as well as rookie Jaydon Blue, are “pretty locked in” to make the team. Luepke is simply too versatile to leave off the roster, which could leave Vaughn and Mafah slugging it out for the final spot.
Vaughn’s journey to the NFL is nothing short of inspiring, but does he really deserve to be on an NFL roster? That is open for debate. He would provide more value to an offense that has a more dependable RB1 where he can specialize as a scatback and receiving threat.
It is hard to envision a role for Vaughn on the Cowboys. Blue is more shifty and explosive and offers more upside as a pass-catcher. Heck, KaVontae Turpin might offer more upside than Vaughn as a gadget weapon.
The Cowboys’ backfield is one of the worst in football, but it is deeper than last year’s group and Vaughn hardly sniffed the field then. He was active for just seven games and saw 17 carries. How much work can Vaughn realistically expect behind Williams, Sanders, Blue and Luepke?
Cowboys win projection for 2025 is the lowest it’s been in over 20 years – Dan Rogers, Blogging The Boys
Vegas isn’t optimistic about Dallas’ 2025 outlook.
The NFL oddsmakers aren’t putting a lot of faith in the Cowboys, offering up 50 to 1 odds for them to win the Super Bowl. A ten-dollar dart throw bet could be worth 500 bones should the Cowboys shock the world and take home that long-coveted sixth Lombardi trophy.
While winning the Super Bowl might seem outlandish, they have the Cowboys’ win total projection at a mere 7.5 games this season. If that seems low to you, that’s because it is. In fact, you’d have to go back over 20 years to find a season where they had a win total projection this low. Marcus Mosher from Locked on Cowboys rounded up the data since the turn of the century. Plotting win projections by year gives us the following graph…
This graph is telling for a handful of reasons. For starters, it’s a testament to how consistently well the team has performed over the last two decades to have to go back to 2003 for them to be projected to have a losing record. Before the 2003 season, the Cowboys were coming off three straight seasons under head coach Dave Campo, where they finished with a 5-11 record. The skepticism was justified. Fortunately, the Cowboys brought on Bill Parcells to right the ship, and they finished the year 10-6 and returned to the playoffs for the first time in the 2000s.
The stretch from 2004 to 2024 was pretty amazing.
100% of the time, they were projected to have a winning record
71% of the time, they were projected to have at least nine wins
24% of the time, they were projected to have double-digit wins
0% of the time were they projected to have 11 wins or more
