like Clowney back<\/a>:<\/p>\n\u201cWith his willingness to want to be here and us wanting him to be here, hopefully we can figure something out.\u201d<\/p>\n
That leaves us with Dante Fowler. PFF.com estimates Clowney\u2019s market value at $10 million for a one-year deal, Fowler comes in quite a bit lower at $6 million for a one-year deal.<\/p>\n
Clowney led the team with 8.5 sacks, while Fowler only had 3.0, but some of the advanced stats we have available suggest their performance was more comparable than their divergent sack totals imply. Here\u2019s how the Cowboys duo compares to the top 14 edge rushers available in free agency this year.<\/p>\n
2026 Free Agent Pass Rushers (click blue column headers to sort)<\/p>\n
Player
\nTeam
\nAge
\nSacks
\nPFF
Grade
\nPass Rush
Win Rate)
\nMarket Value
(AAV in $ million)<\/p>\n
Trey Hendrickson
\nCIN
\n31.2
\n4.0
\n82.9
\n21.5%
\n21.0<\/p>\n
Odafe Oweh
\nLAC
\n27.2
\n7.5
\n75.5
\n16.2%
\n19.3<\/p>\n
Boye Mafe
\nSEA
\n27.2
\n2.0
\n70.3
\n11.3%
\n16.3<\/p>\n
K\u2019Lavon Chaisson
\nNE
\n26.5
\n7.5
\n59.0
\n11.5%
\n15.0<\/p>\n
Khalil Mack
\nLAC
\n34.9
\n5.5
\n79.2
\n13.2%
\n14.0<\/p>\n
Joey Bosa
\nBUF
\n30.6
\n5.0
\n74.6
\n15.0%
\n11.0<\/p>\n
Arden Key
\nTEN
\n29.8
\n4.0
\n63.7
\n10.2%
\n10.8<\/p>\n
Jadeveon Clowney
\nDAL
\n33.0
\n8.5
\n79.2
\n16.7%
\n10.0<\/p>\n
Dre’Mont Jones
\nBAL
\n29.1
\n2.5
\n64.7
\n12.9%
\n10.0<\/p>\n
Kwity Paye
\nIND
\n27.2
\n4.0
\n59.0
\n10.8%
\n10.0<\/p>\n
Arnold Ebiketie
\nATL
\n27.0
\n2.0
\n74.9
\n16.8%
\n8.0<\/p>\n
Cameron Jordan
\nNO
\n36.7
\n10.0
\n59.5
\n9.9%
\n7.5<\/p>\n
Dante Fowler
\nDAL
\n31.5
\n3.0
\n77.6
\n14.7%
\n6.0<\/p>\n
Malcolm Koonce
\nLV
\n27.7
\n4.5
\n58.0
\n14.4%
\n6.0<\/p>\n
Jaelan Phillips
\nPHI
\n26.7
\n5.0
\n76.2
\n18.4%
\n15.0<\/p>\n
Bradley Chubb
\nMIA
\n29.6
\n8.5
\n54.5
\n11.1%
\ntbd<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, as you\u2019ll see if you sort by age, Clowney and Fowler are the third- and fourth-oldest players on this list. If you want to get younger, signing both is not going to help. But if you look at their PFF grade, you\u2019ll see that Clowney is tied for second overall, and Fowler is just behind him at No. 4. Sorting by Pass Rush Win Rate shows Clowney at No. 4 and Fowler at No. 7.<\/p>\n
If you take age, PFF Grade, and Pass Rush Win Rate into account, Jaelan Phillips, Odafe Oweh, and Arnold Ebiketie appear like the most appealing options, but Phillips and Oweh are each likely going to cost as much as Clowney and Fowler combined.<\/p>\n
And since this is a post that started out as a 5-star recruit post and meandered into a free agency pass rush post, here\u2019s the star ranking of the three players identified as potential Cowboys targets above:<\/p>\n
Jaelan Phillips: 5 starsOdafe Oweh: 4 starsArnold Ebiketie: 3 stars<\/p>\n
The situation today mirrors where the Cowboys were heading into the 2015 season. Edge rusher Jeremy Mincey would turn 32 that year, Anthony Spencer was 31 years old, and George Selvie would turn 28. Spencer and Selvie were free agents, and they were not re-signed for the 2025 season. DeMarcus Lawrence had been drafted the year before and was a youthful 22.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys kept Mincey for one more year, and in an ill-advised move, went out and signed Greg Hardy to a contract worth up to $13.1 million. Adjusted for salary cap growth ($143 million in 2015 vs ~$305 million this year), that would be the equivalent of a $27.9 million contract this year. They also drafted Randy Gregory with their second pick that year, which also didn\u2019t work out terribly well. But it wasn\u2019t for lack of trying in both cases.<\/p>\n
Can history repeat itself? Which two edge rushers would you sign to the 2026 Cowboys roster?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National signing day came and went a bit ago with little of the fanfare the event used to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,26780,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-175816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-free-agency","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}