a guy like Malik Davis<\/a> that has just time in and time out come back and proven his worth and the way he\u2019s wired. I know both Jaydon and Phil should and will reach out to Malik because now they\u2019re in an unfortunate situation like that.\u201d<\/p>\nSchottenheimer said Demercado\u2019s ability to play special teams and offensive coordinator Klayton Adams\u2019 familiarity with him for two seasons in Arizona were the reasons he was acquired.<\/p>\n
When it comes to whether Blue or\u00a0Mafah return to the practice squad, Schottenheimer offered no guarantees.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe said to both those guys that we weren\u2019t sure that we were,\u201d\u00a0Schottenheimer said. \u201cNot sure that it would go that direction. And that\u2019s as honest as I could be with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a surprising decision not to bring at least one of those players back to the practice squad. The Cowboys signed 13 players to the unit, which included running back Israel\u00a0Abanikanda. An NFL team can carry up to 16 players on the practice squad. A team that has a player in the International Player Pathway program gets an exemption for 17. Defensive tackle Dayo Odeleye is on the Cowboys’ practice squad through the International Player Pathway program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you know, there\u2019s a lot of able-bodied guys out there that are good players,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cThey\u2019ve played football. And again, I feel really good about Javonte. I raved about Malik. Hunter Luepke\u2019s a guy that doesn\u2019t get talked enough about, but we feel like we\u2019re going to build a really good running back room from top to bottom, including the practice squad as we finalize that and one that is very competitive and fits with our model of compete every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said several roster decisions were difficult to make.\u00a0 That was the case at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93042,88227],"class_list":["post-422283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-brian-schottenheimer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422283","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=422283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}