{"id":824707,"date":"2026-08-24T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:32:11","slug":"dallas-cowboys-add-to-the-roster-among-a-cluster-of-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824707\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys add to the roster among a cluster of injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dallas Cowboys are heading back home to The Star to continue prepping for the 2026 season. They have one more preseason game to go, and then there are cutdowns to create the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">One area the Cowboys are presently short in is tight end. A couple of injuries have necessitated a move as the team adds a new player. Camp pet cat Michael Trigg has been slowed with a toe injury after a hot start to camp. He missed last week\u2019s preseason game and looks like he might miss this week\u2019s. He my end up being an IR candidate for the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Also sidelined with injury is tight end D.J. Rogers. With the team unwilling to risk their top tight ends in preseason, they\u2019ve added free agent Mitch Van Vooren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Van Vooren has an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/patriots\/onsi\/inside-mitch-van-vooren-s-tremendous-journey-from-d1-track-star-to-patriots-marquette-st-norbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> unusual story to this point<\/a>, he was a track star in college and only in the past few years transitioned back to playing football after last playing in high school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Defensive tackle Kevin Gilliam had to be released to make room for Van Vooren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys are heading back home to The Star to continue prepping for the 2026 season. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[30878,21151,349,99],"class_list":["post-824707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-dallas-cowboys-preseason","tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824707","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=824707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}