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USA TODAY Sports Add the Cowboys to the list of teams who are wrapping up their offseason work ahead of schedule. Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News reports that the team has canceled its Thursday minicamp practice. They will do a team-building activity instead of working on the field...

USA TODAY Sports Dak Prescott insisted Wednesday he has “buried” thoughts of his ankle injury that derailed his 2020 season in Week 5. But now the team has another star player with an ankle injury to worry about. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that star receiver Amari Cooper could miss the...

USA TODAY Sports Dak Prescott knows the exact date he “buried” his ankle injury for good. The moment didn’t come on the football field but on the dance floor. It came May 5 during Texas’ holiday celebration of Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over the...

USA TODAY Sports Micah Parsons has signed his first rookie contract. According to multiple reports, the Cowboys and their first-round pick agreed to terms on Wednesday. It’s a four-year deal with a team option for a fifth season. Parsons was the 12th overall pick after opting out of playing...

Getty Images For his first five seasons, the Cowboys couldn’t count on Randy Gregory. Now, he and the Cowboys are counting their blessings. The defensive end finally is making good on the potential that made him a second-round draft choice, having overcome the issues that made him a...

Getty Images Cowboys special teams coordinator John Fassel is not at minicamp this week after the unexpected death of his father, Jim. “I spoke with John shortly after he received the phone call,” Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday. “John’s as big of a family man as we have here, and our...

Getty Images Cowboys wide receiver Michael Gallup thinks the team’s offense is going to light it up this season and he’d like to be around for another run in 2022. Gallup was a third-round pick in 2018, so he is heading into the final year of his first NFL contract. During an appearance on NFL...

Getty Images The Cowboys lost quarterback Dak Prescott to a severe ankle injury early last season and they were shorthanded on the offensive line due to other injuries, but everyone is on track to be in the lineup for the start of this season. Wide receiver Michael Gallup thinks that’s bad...

Getty Images La'el Collins last played a game Dec. 29, 2019. He missed all of last season with a hip injury that required surgery in October. “It was tough,” Collins said, via Jonny Auping of the team website. “I kept going back and forth with myself. If I had to get the surgery done, I was...

USA TODAY Sports Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has another problem related to one of his dogs. Via TMZ.com, a new lawsuit contends that Elliott’s Rottweiler attacked an employee of a boarding facility on March 25, 2021. Per the lawsuit, Elliott allegedly had boarded his three dogs at...

Getty Images Dak Prescott has returned to being the Dak Prescott who was leading the league in passing yards last season before his season-ending ankle injury in Week 5. The Cowboys have limited the star quarterback in team drills during organized team activities out of an abundance of...

Getty Images CeeDee Lamb wears the No. 88 made famous in Dallas by Drew Pearson, Michael Irvin, and Dez Bryant, but he’s channelling another former Cowboys wideout ahead of his second season. Lamb is wearing a bracelet adorned with a phrase made famous by Terrell Owens as he goes through the...

Getty Images Tyron Smith missed only one game in his first five seasons. The seven-time Pro Bowl left tackle has missed 26 the past five seasons. Smith has missed games because of his back, a herniated disc and stingers. He underwent neck surgery last season, costing him 14 games. “Honestly...

Getty Images After four years spent on losing teams with the Indianapolis Colts and New York Jets, defensive end Tarell Basham signed with the Dallas Cowboys this offseason in hopes of experiencing the opposite end of the NFL spectrum. “I feel like I’ve done enough losing in my past,” Basham...

Getty Images The return of in-person offseason programs this year has led to a chance for Cowboys running back Tony Pollard to try out a new position. Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said on Thursday that the team has given Pollard work at wide receiver as a result of some of their regular...

Getty Images The Cowboys declined to exercise the fifth-year option on linebacker Leighton Vander Esch‘s contract, and they drafted linebacker Micah Parsons in the first round and linebacker Jabril Cox in the fourth round. It is not necessarily as it seems, though. The Cowboys still believe in...

Getty Images When the Cowboys signed tight end Blake Jarwin to a four-year extension before last season, it set the stage for Jarwin to step into a leading role on the team’s offense. Jarwin’s time in that role lasted all of 25 snaps. Jarwin tore his ACL during the opening game of the 2020...

Getty Images Andy Dalton spent nine seasons as the Bengals’ starter before Joe Burrow supplanted him. After one season in Dallas, where he signed as Dak Prescott‘s backup before Prescott was injured in Week 5, Dalton signed a one-year deal with the Bears. Chicago, though, drafted Justin Fields...

Getty Images It’s been nearly seven months since Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott fractured his ankle in a game against the New York Giants. Prescott has been back on the practice field during OTAs for the Cowboys as he works his way back into form following his extended rehab from the...

Getty Images Dak Prescott signed a big new contract from the Cowboys earlier this year, but a more prominent theme among quarterbacks this offseason has been dissatisfaction with their teams. While Russell Wilson‘s February comments about the Seahawks sparked trade speculation that’s died...