The Cowboys have executed an honest job of throwing our bodies on the cornerback place after Jourdan Lewis’ departure. After dropping Lewis to the Jacksonville Jaguars in free company, the Cowboys answered by buying and selling for Payments cornerback Kaiir Elam, re-signing Israel Mukuamu, and drafting Shavon Revel within the third spherical of the 2025 NFL draft.
The difficulty? None of these gamers are major slot cornerbacks. Elam and Revel performed totally on the skin in Buffalo and at East Carolina. Each guys are taller, longer, and match the boundary cornerback profile extra. Mukuamu has seen a while within the slot for the Cowboys over the course of his four-year profession in Dallas, however his lack of expertise (three begins) and supreme match to be a full-time nickel cornerback leaves the Cowboys with an attention-grabbing gap to fill.
During the last 5 years, the slot nook place has gone from being simply one other nook to some of the useful positions within the Nationwide Soccer League. With so most of the finest huge receivers in soccer spending plenty of time within the slot, having a top quality slot defender or exterior cornerback that may comfortably observe wideouts into the slot has change into extraordinarily useful.
With Trevon Diggs unlikely to be prepared for the beginning of the season, and Shavon Revel nonetheless rehabbing from a torn ACL suffered in the beginning of the 2024 season, the Cowboys might want to determine some issues out of their secondary throughout coaching camp. There are nonetheless just a few high quality slot cornerbacks on the free agent market like Mike Hilton and Asante Samuel Jr. that the Cowboys might look to signal to fill their slot want, or maintain them over till Diggs and Revel get again as much as full power.
For now, it appears just like the Cowboys will give lots of their corners a shot in coaching camp to win the beginning nickel position. Or they might transfer DaRon Bland again inside in the event that they suppose they’ve a pair to play on the skin. However don’t be stunned if the Cowboys look to herald a veteran to solidly the place earlier than coaching camp with the present accidents and holes the Cowboys are presently coping with on the cornerback place.
