Dallas Cowboys waive LB Damone Clark, activate DT Perrion Winfrey – Emma Moon, Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Cowboys said goodbye to one of their veteran linebackers in favor of help at defensive tackle.
The Dallas Cowboys waived linebacker Damone Clark and activated defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey, head coach Brian Schottenheimer confirmed on Tuesday during a news conference.
The Cowboys officially announced their latest roster moves Tuesday evening. Center Wesley French was also released from the practice squad.
The Cowboys drafted Clark in the fifth round of the 2022 draft after four years at LSU. In 2021, the then-senior started all 13 games and led the SEC in tackles. Clark was inactive Monday night in the Cowboys’ 33-16 win over the Raiders. In his eight appearances this season, Clark had 14 total tackles and seven solo tackles.
Since 2022, Clark has contributed 198 tackles, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.
A well-written article detailing how Dallas persevered through tragedy to get a win on Monday Night Football.
“We’ve got a hell of a road ahead of us,” Prescott said. “And I think that’s the best part of it — we ain’t got no bulls— ahead, where we can lose focus. Like, hell no, we can’t lose focus — not for a second, not for a day, not for a moment of the training.
“S—, we want to make the playoffs? We got to go beat some playoff teams. And it’s not ‘one game at a time.’ We don’t have that luxury. We’ve got to think of the whole thing. We have to go on a run. And we’re going to do it together.”
In taking apart the Raiders (2-8), one of the NFL’s most feeble bottom-feeders, the Cowboys, for the first time in 2025, resembled their superlative selves. Prescott (25-of-33, 268 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions) zipped pinpoint passes to prolific wide receivers George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb, while a juiced-up defense limited the Raiders to 27 rushing yards and one fourth-quarter touchdown.
It was a promising performance, but a potentially deceiving one: Over the next 17 days, Dallas, which still hasn’t beaten a team with a winning record, faces last year’s Super Bowl participants (the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs) and the team that had the NFC’s best regular-season record in 2024 (the Detroit Lions).
Even the Cowboys’ biggest hype man, 83-year-old owner Jerry Jones, conceded after Monday’s game that a playoff run might be a bit ambitious.
“It’s probably a little late in the game,” he told The Athletic. “But if not this season, our future is looking brighter.”
Shavon Revel Jr. recaps ‘exciting’ NFL, Cowboys debut – Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys.com
Despite missing the entire offseason with his injury from college, Shavon Revel Jr looked solid in his debut.
“It was very exciting,” Revel said. “Leading in to it, I had butterflies. Leading in to it though. I got in the locker room, I walked around the field before the game, just to kind of get the feel of the atmosphere. Came back to the locker room, listened to some music, you know, the music that gets you bumping, gets you focused and gets you ready to go out there and play.”
What got him bumping ahead of his first football game in 429 days was “Till I Collapse” by Eminem, along with a natural confidence in himself that stems from the belief his family has in him.
“I know what I can do,” Revel said. “I went and did my best and didn’t listen to the noise, believed in myself, my family, they had trust in me, had support from them all the way to here. I kind off fed into that and it brought me to today.”
The Cowboys kept Revel on a pitch count in his first NFL game, playing him on 17 total snaps defensively. His first snap came on a third and long for the Raiders offense in the first half, a moment that left no room for nerves at that point.
“The butterflies were left in the locker room,” Revel said. “They had a little package for me, so I wasn’t surprised when I had to get in the game, had to get my mind right, take a deep breath before I get out there in the game and get focused.”
Not too long after, Revel corded his first career tackle in the NFL. It was contact that the young cornerback not only welcomed, but was seeking out.
“It felt great, I needed that,” Revel said. “It either took me getting hit, or me hitting somebody for me to be like, ‘Okay, it’s time to lock in for real.’”
Solomon Thomas took the day to continue his advocacy for mental health awareness.
He called it a “conversation we don’t have often enough.”
What we know:
The Dallas Independent School District wants the topic of mental health to be a part of everyday conversations for its students.
The district teamed up with the Dallas Cowboys to try to reach student athletes and leaders who are often well-connected in their schools.
On Tuesday, Thomas spoke to a packed gymnasium at South Oak Cliff High School. He shared his own battle with grief and anxiety. Students also had a chance to ask him questions.
Dig deeper:
Thomas knows about the struggles of mental health first. His sister committed suicide when she was just 24 years old.
She was the same age as fellow Dallas Cowboys player Marshawn Kneeland, who took his own life on Nov. 6.
Thomas’ mother later founded a nonprofit to combat youth suicide.
What they’re saying:
“Coming here is definitely a little emotional. The feeling of loss trying to honor my sister, feelings of loss trying to honor Marshawn, which are very fresh,” Thomas said. “I want to make sure that no one feels the pain that they felt, the pain that my family feels, Marshawn’s family feels, because there’s way too many young people we lose to this cause.”
Thomas talked about his success with meditation and therapy. He also encouraged the students to be kind to others and to ask others how they are doing and whether they are okay.
“I wanted to put in their brains, ‘Hey, this is something we’re all going to have to deal with at some point in life. You have to talk about it.’ Give them key points. It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to get help. Just to relate to them that I was once in their shoes,” he said.
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