It’s time for the Dallas Cowboys to start considering free agent prospects in order to bolster their roster as the summer gets underway. The primary issue is that the Cowboys front staff rarely participates significantly in free agency. Here are three players they ought to give some thought to, just to lend a hand. We’re aware that they won’t sign every one of them, but perhaps they would reconsider their current approach and try signing at least one of them.
The running back position is extremely important this year, especially because the experiment with Tony Pollard as the main back last season did not turn out as planned. The offense became rather one-dimensional by relying on Dak Prescott and the passing game because the running game struggled at times and failed to produce consistent explosive plays.
If the Cowboys had a far more effective running back—more especially, one who could physically impose his will on the opposing defense—a few of the games they lost during the previous season would have likely looked very different. Derrick Henry, a three-down back, is one player who meets that criteria.
Henry’s age is working against him. The age at which you often start to see a significant decline in output as running back is thirty, and he will be thirty years old next season. Since entering the NFL in 2016, Henry has already accrued over 2,000 rush attempts. Since his 2,000-yard campaign in 2020, his output has decreased annually.
According to Spotrac, Henry’s estimated yearly market worth is $4.3 million. It’s critical for the Cowboys to sign Henry as soon as possible since there are a lot of intriguing players entering free agency. If they wait, other teams may sign Henry before them and establish the market price, which they will have to pay.
