Brian Schottenheimer tears up while telling player he made Dallas Cowboys – Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Dallas Cowboys are hoping Winfrey proves them right.
So when defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey said that Schottenheimer wanted to see him in his office, he assumed that his time with the Cowboys was coming to a close. Winfrey had rebounded after being released by the Cleveland Browns after just one season because of multiple legal issues off the field. He was out of the NFL for almost two years, but when he arrived at training camp for the Cowboys, he had shined in a defensive tackle room in desperate need of some life.
However, it was beginning to look like his strong preseason would just barely not be enough — at least to him.
“He assumed he was being cut,” Schottenheimer said. “He walked in, sat down in my office. [Vice president of player personnel] Will McClay and I were in there. We played it up a bit. I was a good actor.”
Schottenheimer opened his conversation with Winfrey with a negative tone, playing into the idea that he thought he was being cut.
“These are hard days,” Schottenheimer told Winfrey. “And there are a lot of hard conversations that you have to have. But this is one that I’ve been looking forward to, because I’m telling you that you made the team.”
Cowboys trade Asim Richards to Saints – Patrik Walker, DallasCowboys.com
The front office opted to get value for Asim Richards instead of outright releasing him.
The flurry of NFL transactions ahead of Tuesday’s cutdown deadline are also aren’t simply about the daunting task of reducing the roster headcount from 90 to 53, and the Dallas Cowboys are making additional moves to try and give themselves ammunition — a decision tied to Asim Richards having been made.
Richards will not be on the Cowboys’ roster in 2025, and he’s been be traded to the New Orleans Saints along with a 2028 seventh-round pick in exchange for a 2028 sixth-round pick, and the young offensive lineman will now be under the wing of Kellen Moore, whom the Cowboys know very well from his time in Dallas as a quarterback, quarterbacks’ coach and offensive coordinator prior to departing following the 2022 season.
A fifth-round pick in 2023, Richards made his way to Dallas after a standout career for the University of North Carolina, one that saw him elevate himself as one of the top offensive tackles in the nation.
His initial season in the NFL saw him get work on the offensive interior due to a rash of injuries amongst teammates, but the 24-year-old was ultimately moved back to tackle, where he spent a good bit of this year’s training camp in competition with players like Nate Thomas, Hakeem Adeniji and Ajani Cornelius.
Ex-Cowboys running back says Panthers are ‘just as explosive’ as Dallas – Matt Connelly, PennLive.com
Comparing the Cowboys to the Carolina Panthers is not what Dallas fans want to hear right now.
First-year Carolina Panthers running back Rico Dowdle played with some big-time playmakers during his time with the Cowboys, including CeeDee Lamb, Brandin Cooks and Amari Cooper.
The Panthers may not have as many big names as the Cowboys did during Dowdle’s five seasons there, but the former South Carolina star believes the Panthers are just as talented.
“I mean, pretty much, talent wise, we’ve got it here, too,” Rico Dowdle recently said. “We’re just as explosive as… I was only in Dallas for five years. We’re just as explosive as them.”
That is obviously a strong statement as the Panthers have had seven consecutive losing seasons, while the Cowboys finished 12-5 three straight years, before falling to 7-10 in 2024.
With that said, the Panthers have upgraded their talent on offense in recent years.
Dowdle topped the 1,000-yard mark for the first time in his career this past season, and the Panthers drafted receivers in the first round each of the past two years in Xavier Legette and Tetairoa McMillan.
There is reason for optimism in Carolina, even if most people don’t expect the Panthers to be as talented as the Cowboys.
“We’ve got T Mac and Xavier and Hunter Renfrow, Adam Thielen, [David Moore]. We’re explosive,” Dowdle said. “And then we’ve got running backs, as well, that can go in.”
Cowboys waive beloved gadget back, preseason star entering Year 3 – Josh Sanchez, Cowboys on SI
The Deuce has been cut loose.
The writing was on the wall for Dallas Cowboys running back Deuce Vaughn, but now the news is official. On Tuesday afternoon, the perennial preseason standout was waived by the team on its way down to the 53-man roster.
Vaughn created one of the greatest moments in Cowboys NFL draft history when he learned he was drafted by the Cowboys with a phone call from his father, Chris, who is a scout for the team.
The speepy and shifty running back was electric out of the backfield for the Cowboys during his three preseason stints, and quickly endeared the fans.
Unfortunately, he is now on the outs after the team selected to new running backs, Jaydon Blue and Phil Mafah, in the 2025 draft.
Vaughn will now hit the waiver wire with less than four years of accrued NFL experience and could be an intriguing candidate for the team’s 16-man practice squad if he clears waivers.
There was some hope that the running back could sneak onto the roster after the hiring of offensive line coach Conor Riley, who Vaughn played under at Kansas State, but it just wasn’t in the cards.
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