Lawrence<\/a> officially putting pen to paper, all seven of the Cowboys’ 2026 draftees have been signed to their rookie contracts.<\/p>\nBack on May 1, the Cowboys signed first-round pick Caleb Downs, third-round pick Jaishawn Barham, fourth-round picks Drew Shelton, Devin Moore, LT Overton and seventh-round pick Anthony Smith along with their undrafted free agent class.<\/p>\n
Now, the focus can shift completely back to the football field, where the Cowboys will continue their 2026 OTAs on June 8.<\/p>\n
Through three practices up to this point, Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer is encouraged by Dallas’ pass rush unit as a whole, and specifically discussed Lawrence on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“Malachi Lawrence is picking it up really, really quickly, and we’re very excited about that.” Schottenheimer said.<\/p>\n
For Schottenehimer, a team having a good pass rush usually comes from a strong overall unit, and not always just having one dominant rusher.<\/p>\n
“I think some of the best pass rushing teams that I know we face don’t have necessarily one guy. It’s easier to shut one guy down,” Schottenheimer said. “One elite guy, you can pay a lot of attention. It’s better of when you’re looking at Denver, and obviously [Nick] Bonitto put up big numbers, but they were getting six-plus sacks I think from seven or eight different guys or something crazy like that.”<\/p>\n
“I really do think it’s more of the unit. And that’s what were’ excited about with the depth that we feel that we have.”<\/p>\n
Lawrence is the newest face in Dallas’ pass rushing department, which also added former Packers EDGE Rashan Gary via trade earlier in the offseason and has last year’s second-round pick Donovan Ezeiruaku heading into his second season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2013 Cowboys first-round pick Malachi Lawrence has signed his four-year, $20.22 million rookie deal with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,49365,115050,88318,1090,3592],"class_list":["post-324583","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-featured-otas","tag-malachi-lawrence","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-tommy-yarrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324583","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=324583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}