The trade that Jerry Jones said was happening on Monday, that he sort of walked back hours later, is now happening, again. And now we know who it is.
The Cowboys are trading a seventh-round pick to the Cincinnati Bengals for linebacker Logan Wilson, a person familiar with the move confirmed to The Dallas Morning News. Wilson will go from playing on the worst scoring defense in the NFL — in terms of points allowed — to the second-worst defense.
Wilson, 29, is under contract through 2027. He’s has a base salary of a combined $12.7 million over the next two seasons. He has a projected cap hit of $9,550,000 million in 2026 and $8,215,000 in 2027.
Wilson was a team captain for the Bengals. He requested a trade a few weeks ago after the Bengals after his snap counts dropped in favor of rookie linebacker Barrett Carter. Wilson had a combined 58 snaps the last four weeks.
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Wilson has had success in the league. The former third round pick has 541 career tackles. He also had 11 interceptions in his first four season, including four interceptions in both 2021 and 2023. He hasn’t had an interception since.
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The Cowboys will have time to integrate Wilson. They’re now on a bye after Monday’s 27-17 home loss to the Arizona Cardinals. It dropped them to 3-5-1 on the season.
The trade for Wilson comes after Jones talked a lot about a potential deal on Monday. Jones announced during a Sirius XM interview with Stephen A. Smith on Monday afternoon that he had made a trade and that they were working on other trades before Tuesday’s deadline. After the game, Jones was adamant that there wasn’t a trade done yet, but that there was one available to him and that he was “leaning” toward doing it. At one point, Jones even admitted to talking in circles about the deal because he didn’t want to alert others around the league that he was on the verge of completing a deal for a player, in case they had any thoughts of stepping in and acquiring that player instead with a sweeter offer.
Jones, playing coy, was asked Monday night if he could at least characterize the type of impact the player they were about to acquire could have on this team and, particularly, this defense.
“Anything is significant if it’s going to be somebody that’s going to be active in the games and on the field and that type of thing,” Jones said. “We don’t want to diminish the trade, but we certainly, for what a player was going to bring to the table, for whatever happened tonight [in the game], we need that player to bring that to the table, for whatever happened tonight. But does it make sense? And more than likely it does for the one that we can do.”
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