{"id":302659,"date":"2026-05-21T07:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302659\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:47:18","slug":"tyler-smith-on-position-conversations-tyler-bookers-second-year-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302659\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Smith on position conversations, Tyler Booker&#8217;s second year, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of remaining on the field, the Cowboys are set to be the fourth-most traveled team in the NFL in 2026 with 27,980 miles projected to be scaled as Dallas makes a pair of trips to the west coast and Rio de Janeiro. With that kind of travel workload, Smith understands the increased importance of ensuring physical wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the biggest thing is taking care of your body, especially when you know you&#8217;re going to be traveling long distances, long flights,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;Schotty has a great plan for us vets. I get a bigger seat, I&#8217;m graduated, so I&#8217;m extremely happy with those developments. And then the plane ride is nothing to me, I&#8217;m sleep most of the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Up in first class with Smith is Dak Prescott, who is heading into year 11 with the Cowboys. This offseason, Prescott said he&#8217;s gotten off to a faster start to his offseason as he was healthy, compared to a hamstring injury hindering his beginning to the offseason following the 2024 season. For Smith, he sees Prescott&#8217;s approach to each offseason as a model of steadiness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to see it because he&#8217;s just so consistent,&#8221; Smith said of Prescott. &#8220;I feel like he&#8217;s attacked every offseason the same way healthy or not. Especially seeing him come off the hamstring [injury] the year before, just how he attacked his rehab day in and day out and how he was consistently always pushing himself to be elite. It&#8217;s great to see and it&#8217;s something that he&#8217;s continued to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Prescott and Smith have more than graduated to earning their first-class seats on Cowboys&#8217; chartered flights to games. It&#8217;s still early, but incoming second-year guard Tyler Booker may be getting some extra legroom soon as he looks to build on a strong start from his rookie season, where he started 14 games opposite of Smith at right guard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the sky is the limit,&#8221; Smith said of Booker. &#8220;He approaches every day the right way, he&#8217;s a guy that&#8217;s constantly trying to get better, constantly asking questions. We&#8217;re on the phone all the time\u2026 I think the sky is the limit in his second year, and he&#8217;s starting from a great launch point in his rookie year for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking of remaining on the field, the Cowboys are set to be the fourth-most traveled team in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,49365,1090,99377,3592,15209],"class_list":["post-302659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-featured-offseason-2026","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-regular-season","tag-news-tommy-yarrish","tag-tyler-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302659","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=302659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}