2:00 p.m. — With veteran Cowboys special teams ace CJ Goodwin retiring earlier this offseason, Dallas in need of a new face for the third phase of the game. On Wednesday, special teams coordinator Nick Sorensen said the team is taking a by-committee approach to filling Goodwin’s shoes.<\/p>\n
“I think we’ve got guys that are still really young, but that have done a lot of cool things for us like a [Ryan Flournoy], Brevyn [Spann-Ford], Marist [Liufau], even Shemar James did well as a rookie,” Sorensen said. “Markquese [Bell] has been around. We added PJ Locke who’s been in the league a while. I think it’s more by committee right now.”<\/p>\n
“I think CJ was kind of established as that guy that’s been the leader and been the old head. We’ve got a good mixture of guys that I think are sort of in that mid-20s age range to where they’re comfortable, but they’re also bringing up the young guys… it’s been cool to see them challenge each other.”<\/p>\n
Brian Schottenheimer said earlier this week that Spann-Ford, Flournoy and Hunter Luepke had stood out to him as guys who could fill a role like Goodwin’s on special teams. There’s still time for players to further emerge, but for now, they’ll work together as a unit to improve and try and fill Goodwin’s void in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2:00 p.m. — With veteran Cowboys special teams ace CJ Goodwin retiring earlier this offseason, Dallas in need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1090,18822,18823],"class_list":["post-398934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-updates","tag-yinzcam-web-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398934","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=398934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}