{"id":379459,"date":"2026-07-20T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379459\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:27:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-secondary-success-this-season-is-a-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379459\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Secondary success this season is a gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Despite all of their moves, Bleacher Report\u2019s Kristopher Knox is of the opinion the Cowboys should make one more addition to their linebackers room <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25455865-best-nfl-free-agents-still-available-ahead-2026-preseason\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">by signing Bobby Wagner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAt this stage in his career, Wagner would make the most sense for a team seeking both talent and experience on its defense and with enough overall talent to make a strong push for the postseason,\u201d Knox wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cLogical Landing Spots: Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars,\u201d Knox added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Cowboys\u2019 current situation at linebacker<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The Cowboys had a dire situation at the position going into the offseason, but things have improved since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Dallas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/cowboys\/onsi\/cowboys-draft-insurance-trade-linebacker-dee-winters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">traded for Dee Winters<\/a> before opting to select Jaishawn Barham in the third round of the 2026 NFL Draft, and those two join a linebackers room that also includes both DeMarvion Overshown and Shemar James.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">While that should be an adequate group, there are questions about each player in it. Overshown has been plagued by injury during his career, Barham and James are unproven and Winters amounts to an OK but not great starting option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">If there\u2019s one position group that could use a final piece to put it over the top, it\u2019s linebacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite all of their moves, Bleacher Report\u2019s Kristopher Knox is of the opinion the Cowboys should make one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":["post-379459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379459","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=379459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}