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FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys did not make a trade before the NFL trade deadline passed at 3 p.m. CT on Tuesday. Their only trade of the regular season is still the Oct. 1 deal that brought cornerback Joey Porter Jr. over from the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 2028 second-round pick and a 2027 sixth-round pick, according to NFL.com’s tracker of every trade made since the season began.
During his weekly Tuesday appearance on 105.3 The Fan’s Shan & RJ show, owner and general manager Jerry Jones said he did not look for Dallas to make a significant trade. He also told listeners “don’t count it out,” because a lot can happen on the final day.
Jones could not say how much the 4-5 start had to do with that outlook. Dallas beat the Indianapolis Colts 27-23 on Sunday, one week after losing at home to the Arizona Cardinals.
“I don’t know,” Jones said. “I can’t answer that, because I haven’t had a chance to really maneuver or think about or discuss back and forth with the team. We haven’t had a chance to have a meaningful dialogue here over the last two or three weeks about any player that we’d be interested in.”
Wide receiver George Pickens, who is playing on the franchise tag, was not moved. He sat out the win in Indianapolis with a hamstring injury, which Jones said Tuesday was “100% pure injury related.”
A day before the deadline, Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer pointed to the heart his players have shown. Eight games remain on the Cowboys’ schedule.
“I’m very comfortable with our team,” Schottenheimer said. “I think the heart of these guys, the way that they’ve shown that they can perform. We just have to be more consistent in that performance.”
Stephen Jones Said Dallas Cowboys Were Making All The Calls
Last week, Jerry Jones said Dallas would not sell players before the deadline and was much more likely to add to the roster than take away from it. Two days before the deadline, he said on the station’s pregame show that “at this point, I don’t see it” when it came to a move, according to the team’s website.
Nobody had called the Cowboys about any of their own players as of Monday, chief operating officer Stephen Jones said during his weekly appearance on 105.3 The Fan’s K&C Masterpiece. On Friday, he had said on the station that Dallas had not seen much movement in its talks.
“We really have not. It’s been pretty quiet on our end,” Stephen Jones said. “We’re certainly making all the calls. We touch base with all 31 other teams, and who’s available and who we might would consider if there was somebody that made any sense to us. But right now it’s pretty quiet on our front.”
The one addition Jerry Jones promised Tuesday was at running back, and he said it would probably come from free agency rather than a trade. Tyler Goodson is out multiple weeks with a knee injury he suffered at Indianapolis. Goodson ran 12 times for a career-high 77 yards in that game against the Colts, his team from 2023 to 2025. Adding a back was a priority, Jerry Jones said, “and we will do that today.”
Running back Kendre Miller visited the Cowboys on Tuesday, ESPN’s Todd Archer reported, citing sources. The New Orleans Saints waived Miller on Saturday. He ran 57 times for 159 yards and 2 touchdowns this season and caught 9 passes for 37 yards. New Orleans drafted Miller out of TCU in the third round, 71st overall, in 2023.
Joey Porter Jr. Trade Left Cowboys With Four 2027 Draft Picks
Dallas holds four picks in the 2027 draft after the Porter trade, according to Spotrac. Those are a first-round pick, its own second-round pick, a fourth-round pick acquired from Pittsburgh, and a seventh-round pick.
The New York Jets will receive the more favorable of the Cowboys’ own 2027 first-round pick and the one they acquired from the Green Bay Packers in the Micah Parsons trade. That condition was part of the deal that brought defensive tackle Quinnen Williams to Dallas at last year’s deadline.
Porter has played four games for Dallas, with 8 tackles and 3 passes defensed. He missed the Colts game with a foot and ankle injury. Jerry Jones said Tuesday that Porter is a shutdown corner and that Dallas has missed him when he is not on the field.
Across the league Tuesday, the San Francisco 49ers acquired wide receiver Keenan Allen from the Colts for a 2027 sixth-round pick. The trade puts Allen across from Dallas in back-to-back weeks, The Dallas Morning News pointed out in its deadline live blog.
The Cowboys (4-5) host the 49ers (7-1) on Sunday at AT&T Stadium. Kickoff is set for 3:25 p.m. CT on FOX.
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