LUBBOCK
The Dallas Cowboys caravan of head coach Brian Schottenheimer, defensive coordinator Christian Parker, vice president of player personnel Will McClay and more wrapped up their four-day Pro Day trip on Thursday with an afternoon in Lubbock at Texas Tech.
After visiting Miami on Monday, Texas on Tuesday and Texas A&M on Wednesday, the group picked up pass rush specialist B.T. Jordan and made the trip west to Lubbock on Wednesday night to meet with a group of Red Raiders over dinner before their Pro Day event on Thursday morning. Attendees at that dinner included linebacker Jacob Rodriguez, defensive tackle Lee Hunter, defensive end Romello Height and wide receiver Caleb Douglas.
“It was good,” Rodriguez said. “We cracked some jokes and had a lot of good times. It was fun. It was really great to be in a building and sit and have dinner with a head coach in the NFL. Five-year-old me or 10-year-old me would be really proud and really happy. I was proud to be there, and I loved the conversations.”
On Thursday, Rodriguez just participated in the bench press and directed his other testing to his solid performance at the NFL Combine last month. The defensive linemen highlighted the on-field performance, though, as Hunter and Height joined expected top-five pick David Bailey and defensive tackle Skyler Gill-Howard for position drills with all 32 NFL teams looking on.
Dallas Cowboys begin big 30-visit weekend
The Cowboys’ contingency in Lubbock took a quick 45-minute flight back to Dallas-Fort Worth to begin a busy weekend of prospect visits at The Star in Frisco. Among the expected prospects in attendance this weekend include Height, LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane, Miami cornerback Keionte Scott and Louisville defensive tackle Rene Konga.
“I’m going to hunt the quarterback,” Height said Thursday about what he will bring to the NFL. “We’re going to stop drives, and we’re going to win games.”
The visits will continue through next weekend, as the NFL permits teams to welcome in 30 non-local prospects and an unlimited number of prospects that either graduated from high school or attended college in the metro area. For the Cowboys, that would obviously extend to any qualifying player in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The local day is expected to take place for Dallas next week.
Once the prospect visits conclude, it will be full steam ahead for the draft on April 23.
This story was originally published March 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM.
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Nick Harris is the Dallas Cowboys beat reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has experience working on the beat for DallasCowboys.com and previous work experience at Yahoo Sports/Rivals and 247Sports.