{"id":323732,"date":"2026-06-05T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323732\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:52:18","slug":"dallas-cowboys-have-two-defensive-starters-limited-for-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323732\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys have two defensive starters limited for OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dallas Cowboys are in the midst of their OTAs out in Frisco, Texas. Two of their most important defenders, cornerback DaRon Bland and edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku, are currently rehabbing from injuries. Per Jon Machota of The Athletic, both will be limited during OTAs as the team is being cautious with their alignments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bland is nursing a foot injury, which is all too common when looking at his history with the Cowboys. He signed a five-year, $92 million extension last August. Bland played in 12 games, but a foot injury which requited surgery ended his season last December. This is a critical year for Bland, especially after missing 15 games over the previous two seasons. Dallas has a lot of money invested in him and he needs to be available every week in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ezeiruaku played through a hip labrum tear during his rookie campaign in 2025. In January, he had surgery to repair the issue which caused him to miss the offseason program during the spring and mimicamp. The former second-round pick will be a key piece in the Cowboys\u2019 revamped defense under defensive coordinator Christian Parker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Both Bland and Ezeiruaku are expected to be ready for training camp in July when the Cowboys head to Oxnard, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys are in the midst of their OTAs out in Frisco, Texas. Two of their most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,6359,104,103],"class_list":["post-323732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-injuries","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323732","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=323732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}