{"id":199562,"date":"2026-03-11T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199562\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:07:11","slug":"cowboys-free-agency-dallas-agrees-to-terms-with-qb-sam-howell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199562\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys free agency: Dallas agrees to terms with QB Sam Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Cowboys have been doing a series of smaller, one-year deals today, and now they have added another. And at a position not many would have predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys reach a deal with QB Sam Howell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Most Cowboys fans assumed that Joe Milton would be the number two guy on the depth chart behind Dak Prescott. That will probably still be true, but now he has a little competition from a free agent. Dallas also has Will Grier as a reserve\/future player.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Howell is a former Philadelphia Eagles player, but he entered the NFL as a fifth-round pick in 2022 for Washington. He was Washington\u2019s starter in the 2023 season when the team went 4-13. Interceptions were a major problem for Howell that year. He has also bounced around to the Seahawks and the Vikings. Most recently he was a backup in Philadelphia, and now he\u2019ll battle for a spot in the QB room in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys have been doing a series of smaller, one-year deals today, and now they have added another.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58062,114,102,104,103,73173,10388,78716,10249,7698,7683,73174],"class_list":{"0":"post-199562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-adam-schefter","9":"tag-dak-prescott","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-joe-milton","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-sam-howell","16":"tag-seahawks","17":"tag-the-cowboys","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-will-grier"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199562","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=199562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}