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FRISCO, Texas — Von Miller will not be limited to one situation in the Dallas Cowboys defense, Cowboys defensive coordinator Christian Parker said Thursday, three days before the 37-year-old outside linebacker plays his first game for his hometown team. Miller agreed to a one-year deal Aug. 16 and joined Dallas...

FRISCO, Texas — Christian Parker will call plays in an NFL regular-season game for the first time Sunday night, when the Dallas Cowboys open the season against the New York Giants. Kickoff at MetLife Stadium is 7:20 p.m. CT on NBC. Parker, 34, was hired as Dallas’ defensive coordinator Jan....

FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys and tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford agreed Thursday to a three-year, $18 million contract extension that includes $12.075 million guaranteed, NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reported. His agent, Mike McCartney, announced the agreement on X earlier Thursday evening. The extension keeps Spann-Ford under contract through the...

FRISCO, Texas — Quinnen Williams said Wednesday that being voted a Dallas Cowboys captain measures how hard a player works, and pointed to the teammates who did not get the patch. "It means a lot. It means a lot of responsibility. It means a lot of leadership when it comes...

FRISCO, Texas — Hunter Luepke said Wednesday that the Dallas Cowboys spent training camp preparing for exactly the situation they are in without Tyler Smith. Smith will keep leading from off the field, in Luepke's view. "I think that's what training camp is for. It's for everybody to get reps...

FRISCO, Texas — George Pickens said Wednesday that the Dallas Cowboys locker room welcomed him more openly than any he had joined before, and that CeeDee Lamb took pride in making that happen. "I feel like for him personally, he wanted to do it, just to intern a new guy...

FRISCO, Texas — Four months separated the trade that brought George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys from the season opener at Philadelphia. He said Wednesday he was still learning the playbook when it arrived. "Yeah, definitely a little bit of uncertainty. I was just saying first game with a new...

FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys turned away trade inquiries for guard T.J. Bass during the offseason and again at roster cutdowns, telling teams he was off limits, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported this week. Bass now steps into the starting lineup at left guard. Tyler Smith went on injured reserve...

FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer plans to change the Dallas offense by roughly 15% to 25% from last season, he told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler for a Week 1 notebook published this week. Part of that change is moving George Pickens around the formation. The tweaks are meant...

FRISCO, Texas — George Pickens' father coached Quinnen Williams. That was Birmingham youth football, two grade levels above the team Pickens played on. The two are teammates on the Dallas Cowboys now, four days from the season opener at the New York Giants. Neither of those teams lost a game....