March 13, 2026, 10:58 a.m. CT
The Cowboys are sticking with a depth piece and special teams contributor who is still waiting for his breakout NFL moment.
Free agent tight end Princeton Fant has been re-signed by the Cowboys, per a Friday report from Tommy Yarrish of DallasCowboys.com. The just-turned-27-year-old joined the team in 2023 as an undrafted free agent out of Tennessee. Since then, he’s spent most of his three seasons on the practice squad, having appeared in just 11 games.
At 6-foot-2 and 235 pounds, Fant has managed to do just enough to stick around in Dallas but has been stuck at the bottom of the depth chart, most recently behind starter Jake Ferguson, Luke Schoonmaker, and Brevyn Spann-Ford in 2025.
Fant’s busiest season was 2024, when he saw time in eight games. The majority of that action came on special teams; the Nashville native has just 14 total offensive snaps on his NFL résumé, all coming in that same season.
Once nicknamed “Bull” by Cowboys tight ends coach Lunda Wells, Fant will see if that physicality can earn him a bigger role in 2026.
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Fant’s two-year contract expired with the end of the 2025 season, and he was not inked to a futures deal. Financial terms of his new contract, said to be a one-year pact, were not immediately known.
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