Who said free agency was over? The Dallas Cowboys broke their silence on Saturday with the signing of veteran defensive lineman Jonathan Bullard. Entering his 11th season, Bullard projects as a 3-4 DE in the Cowboys\u2019 new scheme under Christian Parker.<\/p>\n
Most recently with the Saints, Bullard has been around the NFC with the Vikings, Falcons, Seahawks, and Cardinals in past career stops. He started his NFL journey in 2016 with the Bears, who drafted him in the third round. Bullard has been a versatile DE for the last decade, playing DE in both 3-4 and 4-3 schemes. He was mostly a backup early on, but has started 44 games over the last four years: six in New Orleans and 38 during his three-year run in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Bullard\u2019s first NFL job in Chicago came when Vic Fangio was their defensive coordinator from 2016-2018. While Parker was not part of Fangio\u2019s staff back then, we know the huge influence that Fangio has had on Parker\u2019s career. Depending on how much that will trickle into the defensive line, perhaps this move was to bring in someone who could pick up the scheme quickly.<\/p>\n
Bullard feels like a replacement for Solomon Thomas in Dallas\u2019 DL room. After one year with him as a depth piece and veteran leader, the Cowboys moved Thomas to the Titans for a seventh-round pick earlier this month, reuniting him with his former coaches Robert Saleh and Aaron Whitecotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who said free agency was over? The Dallas Cowboys broke their silence on Saturday with the signing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[184168,349,99],"class_list":["post-552220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-dallas-cowboys-free-agency","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}