Cowboys Countdown to Cutdown Day: Player profiles No. 90 - No. 81 as pass catcher play
Cowboys Wire's running series of player profiles has reached another milestone.
These profiles allow fans to have a general idea of a player's background, how they arrived in the league and how they ended up on the Dallas Cowboys' roster, along with the journey that will be ahead of them. For star players, these will look at their accomplishments and for players who are just trying to make either the 53-man roster of 16-man practice squad, it will be a brief look at the fight ahead of them.
This piece will serve as a repository for each of those articles, as well as a link to each previous 10-number repository.
No. 90: DT Solomon Thomas | Link
No. 89: TE Brevyn Spann-Ford | Link
No. 88: WR CeeDee Lamb | Link
No. 87: TE Jake Ferguson | Link
No. 86: TE Luke Schoonmaker | Link
No. 85: TE Princeton Fant | Link
No. 84: WR Kelvin Harmon | Link
No. 83: WR Jalen Brooks | Link
No. 82: None
No. 81: WR Jonathan Mingo | Link
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