A 53-man roster upset brewing?
The deck is always stacked against undrafted free agents like Trigg, and that is especially true when it comes to a UDFA tight end making the Cowboys’ roster.
Dallas is stacked at tight end with Jake Ferguson, Brevyn Spann-Ford and Luke Schoonmaker, and Princeton Fant is no slouch as competition for the TE4 spot if Dallas decides to keep that many There’s no shortage of athleticism in this group, either.
But Trigg has long had the eye of the Cowboys, which is another reason why it was surprising Dallas didn’t spring for him in the draft.
Cowboys tight ends coach Lunda Wells attended the Baylor Pro Day in March and “was by Trigg’s side for the majority” of it, according to Joseph Hoyt of the Dallas Morning News.
Hoyt went on to say that Trigg was “considered among the best tight ends in the 2026 NFL Draft.”
Seeing as how he went undrafted, it’s pretty clear many teams did not agree with that idea. But we definitely cannot say the Cowboys didn’t, as their failure to draft him is hardly an indication of how the team feels about Trigg because Dallas was always unlikely to use a draft pick on a tight end given the current state of their room.
But the Cowboys got Trigg anyway and he’ll be someone we’ll be watching throughout the offseason as he makes his push to defy the odds and land on the initial 53-man roster in late August.