{"id":280641,"date":"2026-05-06T02:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:02:07","slug":"dallas-cowboys-add-one-udfa-rookie-offensive-tackle-waive-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280641\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys add one UDFA rookie offensive tackle, waive another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> have added another undrafted rookie following the team&#8217;s rookie minicamp.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys signed\u00a0offensive lineman DJ Wingfield after the weekend&#8217;s camp, according to Wingfield&#8217;s agent Brent Tessler. The 6-4, 316-pound tackle spent time at New Mexico, Purdue and USC.<\/p>\n<p>An older rookie, Wingfield\u00a0was ruled\u00a0ineligible for his final season of collegiate ball after a long legal battle vs. the NCAA, where he\u00a0applied for a waiver to play for a seventh season of college football and was denied. He sued the NCAA in the summer of 2025, but a U.S. District Court judge denied his request for\u00a0injunctive relief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very talented guy got a large NIL deal from USC last year but was ruled ineligible by the NCAA right before the start of the season,&#8221; Tessler posted on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his final season at Purdue in 2024, he started all 12 games at right guard for the Boilermakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys also waived Baylor UDFA Sidney Fugar, another offensive tackle who worked out with Dallas over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys have added another undrafted rookie following the team&#8217;s rookie minicamp. The Cowboys signed\u00a0offensive lineman DJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93042,89124],"class_list":["post-280641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-nfl-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280641","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=280641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}