{"id":860994,"date":"2026-08-17T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860994\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:04:24","slug":"von-miller-joins-cowboys-lets-make-this-one-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860994\/","title":{"rendered":"Von Miller joins Cowboys: &#8216;Let&#8217;s make this one special&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-time Pro Bowl linebacker and former Super Bowl MVP Von Miller is signing with the Dallas Cowboys, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll ink a one-year contract, a source told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2089162263924011213\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dallas! Let&#8217;s make this one special,&#8221; Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VonMiller\/status\/2089157757324898738\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old spent the 2025 season with the Washington Commanders, racking up nine sacks in 17 games, including 1.5 sacks in two contests against Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Miller&#8217;s 2025 sack total would&#8217;ve topped the Cowboys, who saw Jadeveon Clowney lead the team with 8.5 sacks last year. Clowney reunited with the Houston Texans this season.<\/p>\n<p>Adding edge rushers has been a priority for Dallas. The club traded for Rashan Gary and used a first-round pick on Malachi Lawrence. The Cowboys also roster 2025 second-round pick Donovan Ezeiruaku and fifth-year pro James Houston, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys will be Miller&#8217;s fifth team. He&#8217;s also spent time with the Denver Broncos (2011-21), Los Angeles Rams (2021), Buffalo Bills (2022-24), and Commanders (2025).<\/p>\n<p>Miller won the Super Bowl with two different teams (the Broncos and Rams). The 2011 No. 2 pick boasts 138.5 career sacks, the most among active players.<\/p>\n<p>All-time Cowboys&#8217; sack leader DeMarcus Ware shared a photo of himself on FaceTime with Miller on Sunday. Ware and Miller played together in Denver, and they&#8217;re tied for the ninth-most official career sacks in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude2c <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/CowboysNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#CowboysNation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XYJRIHIQhW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XYJRIHIQhW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 D-Ware (@DeMarcusWare) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeMarcusWare\/status\/2089160085788377195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miller had pushed for a reunion with the Broncos earlier in the offseason, but the two sides never started new contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Miller grew up in Texas and went to high school south of Dallas before establishing himself as a football star at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight-time Pro Bowl linebacker and former Super Bowl MVP Von Miller is signing with the Dallas Cowboys, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-860994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}