{"id":266456,"date":"2026-04-26T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:35:08","slug":"cowboys-sign-smu-product-and-udfa-wide-receiver-jordan-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266456\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys sign SMU product and UDFA wide receiver Jordan Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the NFL Draft in the books, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboys<\/a> have quickly turned their attention to undrafted free agents.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/smu-mustangs\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SMU<\/a> wide receiver Jordan Hudson roughly an hour after the draft concluded on Saturday, according to The Dallas Morning News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeJHoyt\/status\/2048180453228650717?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joseph Hoyt<\/a>. The senior had a career-high 61 catches for 766 yards and hauled in six touchdowns last season. He was a third-team\u00a0All-ACC selection.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson brings top-end speed, which he showcased against two of the best teams in the conference last season. He had a 70-yard touchdown reception in a win over Clemson on Oct. 18 and a career-best 131 receiving yards against Miami on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The wideout is a hometown signing for the Cowboys after playing his high school football at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/high-school-sports\/schools\/garland\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garland<\/a>. He spent his first collegiate season at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCU<\/a> before transferring to SMU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NFL Draft in the books, the\u00a0Cowboys have quickly turned their attention to undrafted free agents. Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93042,99583,99537],"class_list":{"0":"post-266456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-tp-smu-mustangs","13":"tag-tp-tcu-horned-frogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266456","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=266456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}