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Todd ArcherMar 4, 2025, 12:08 PM ET

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FRISCO, Texas — With free agency closing in and the deadline to use the franchise tag coming Tuesday, the Dallas Cowboys were able to keep one of their own off the market, agreeing to a four-year, $80 million deal with defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa, his agent told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The deal includes $58 million guaranteed and a $20 million signing

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Todd ArcherFeb 28, 2025, 11:04 AM ET

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INDIANAPOLIS – While he had multi-million dollar offers to remain in college football, Quinn Ewers never considered them.

“I wanted to leave my legacy at Texas, and I didn’t want to disrupt anything that I did at Texas to be flipped or turned in any other way. I just wanted to be remembered in college at Texas.”

Ewers directed Texas to consecutive semifinal appearances

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Todd ArcherFeb 28, 2025, 09:45 AM ET

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INDIANAPOLIS — If Isaiah Bond is correct, Xavier Worthy‘s record 40-yard dash time at the NFL scouting combine will last just one season but remain with the University of Texas.

Last year, Worthy, a former Longhorn, ran a 4.21-second 40 and was eventually a first-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs. Bond, who played last season at

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Todd ArcherFeb 27, 2025, 06:25 PM ET

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INDIANAPOLIS — There might have been times in previous trips to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis when Brian Schottenheimer could walk through the convention center halls or hotel lobbies and go unnoticed.

Now that he’s the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, not anymore.

After Schottenheimer fulfilled some media obligations Thursday, a handful of folks wanting pictures signed saw him walk down the hallway

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Todd ArcherFeb 25, 2025, 06:00 AM ET

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FRISCO, Texas — At some point in the next few days, a video memory will pop up on Jake Ferguson‘s cell phone, as it has every February since 2022.

It’s a video he took at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, zooming in and out on a Cowboys hat, a couple of months before the Dallas Cowboys took the Wisconsin tight

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Todd ArcherFeb 24, 2025, 06:02 PM ET

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INDIANAPOLIS — If last year’s theme for the Dallas Cowboys was, “all in,” then the leader in 2025 is “selectively aggressive.”

While the “all in” definition used by owner and general manager Jerry Jones might have differed from conventional wisdom in terms of how the Cowboys put together their roster last season, the “selectively aggressive” moniker used Monday at the NFL scouting combine

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Todd ArcherFeb 20, 2025, 05:35 PM ET

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FRISCO, Texas — Zack Martin, one of the most decorated offensive linemen in Dallas Cowboys history, has opted to retire, sources told ESPN.

Martin met with owner and general manager Jerry Jones on Thursday to inform him of his decision, sources said.

Martin was a nine-time Pro Bowl selection in 11 years with the Cowboys. Only Hall of Famers Bob Lilly (11),

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Todd ArcherFeb 16, 2025, 06:00 AM ET

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FRISCO, Texas — It’s about an hour before Brian Schottenheimer is introduced as the 10th head coach in the history of the Dallas Cowboys.

Through the atrium windows at The Star, Dak Prescott is seen rehabbing from the surgery he had to repair a right hamstring avulsion suffered in a Week 9 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. He is

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Todd ArcherFeb 11, 2025, 06:05 PM ET

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DALLAS — For the second time in eight years, Dak Prescott has seen the Philadelphia Eagles win a Super Bowl, but the Dallas Cowboys quarterback does not believe his team is far from winning a championship of its own.

“I feel like we’ve competed with the Eagles and beat them for

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