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FRISCO, Texas — Kendre Miller, a former TCU running back, visited the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday and is expected to sign to their practice squad, Joseph Hoyt of The Dallas Morning News reported, citing a source.
The team has not announced it. Hours before the NFL trade deadline, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones went on 105.3 The Fan and said Dallas would add a running back that day. It would come off the free-agent market, he said, not through a trade.
Miller became available when the New Orleans Saints waived him Saturday, and he went unclaimed on waivers. He appeared in six games for New Orleans this season, carrying 57 times for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns and catching 9 passes for 37 yards.
Dallas Cowboys Lose Tyler Goodson For Multiple Weeks With Knee Injury
Tyler Goodson hurt his knee in the second quarter of Sunday’s 27-23 win over the Indianapolis Colts, then came back to finish with a career-high 77 yards on 12 carries against the team he played for from 2023 to 2025. In the locker room afterward, Goodson pointed to how many injuries the Cowboys were already playing through.
“You just kind of shake it off and pretend it didn’t even happen at that point. We got guys that we all depend on each other, and I want to do my part and help this team win,” Goodson said. “So I’m gonna do everything I can to get out there on the field. If it’s just a little pain, I’m gonna go. But if it’s somewhere I just can’t go, then I won’t go. But just a little pain or injury where I can put pressure on it, I’m going.”
By Monday, Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said Goodson would miss multiple weeks. Chief operating officer Stephen Jones said on 105.3 The Fan’s K&C Masterpiece that it was too early to put a length on the absence, and that the trainers were struck by Goodson wanting to go back into the game.
“He’s certainly earning those opportunities. We got our fingers crossed right now on the injury front with him. Yeah, he certainly, as you know, he came out, and it’s a real injury,” Stephen Jones said. “But my hat’s off to him more that he came back in and ran, ran his ass off, ran hard, and he’s got a real injury that, unfortunately, he’s probably going to miss some time with.”
Javonte Williams finished Sunday with 20 carries for 101 yards, including the go-ahead 1-yard touchdown run with 1:08 left. He and Goodson were the only running backs Dallas had active in Indianapolis. With Goodson out, fullback Hunter Luepke is the only other back on the active roster, while Israel Abanikanda and Jashaun Corbin are on the practice squad.
Goodson had been with Dallas for less than two months. The Cowboys signed him off the Atlanta Falcons’ practice squad on Sept. 15, after Malik Davis suffered a season-ending hip injury.
Kendre Miller Spent Three Seasons At TCU And Four With New Orleans Saints
Before New Orleans, Miller spent three seasons in Fort Worth after growing up in Mount Enterprise, Texas. As a junior in 2022, he ran for 1,399 yards and 17 touchdowns on 224 carries and was a first-team All-Big 12 selection for a TCU team that reached the national championship game. He did not play in that game after hurting his knee in TCU’s College Football Playoff semifinal win in the Fiesta Bowl.
Dallas brought him in before the 2023 draft, one of the visits Miller made that spring, and New Orleans took him with the 71st pick in the third round. He played in 27 games for the Saints over parts of four seasons, a stretch that included two trips to injured reserve in 2024.
In 2025, Miller handled 16 kickoff returns for 393 yards, both team highs, before a knee injury ended his season after 7 games. He came back this fall to carry 57 times, his most in any season with New Orleans, and his 20 carries in a Week 6 win over the New York Giants set a career high. He ran for 70 yards that day.
Over his time with the Saints, Miller ran for 656 yards and 5 touchdowns on 184 carries and caught 29 passes for 217 yards. In the Saints’ preseason finale on Aug. 28, he carried 9 times for 42 yards against the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium.
Dallas, 4-5, returns to AT&T Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 15, to host the 7-1 San Francisco 49ers. Kickoff is set for 3:25 p.m. CT on FOX.
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