{"id":313020,"date":"2025-10-18T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:12:12","slug":"cowboys-expected-to-explore-splash-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313020\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Expected To Explore Splash Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cowboys\u2019 2-3-1 start to the 2025 season has not deterred owner and\u00a0de facto general manager Jerry Jones<\/strong> from signaling his interest in buying at this year\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this week<\/a>, he all but waved the draft picks acquired in the Micah Parsons<\/a><\/strong> deal, and recent reports have further indicated Dallas\u2019 interest in making a major addition. One linked the Cowboys<\/a> to Bengals edge rusher Trey Hendrickson<\/a><\/strong>, and another\u00a0from Yahoo Sports\u2019 Charles Robinson<\/a> mentions Hendrickson and Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons<\/a><\/strong> as Jones\u2019 potential targets.<\/p>\n

Hendrickson would fill the Cowboys\u2019 major need for a veteran edge rusher. Though his counting stats of four sacks and three tackles for loss are behind the pace of his last two seasons, his 22.6% pass rush win rate is seventh among edge rushers (min. 50 pass-rushing snaps), per Pro Football Focus (subscription required<\/a>). That is actually slightly above his 20.8% and 20.0% marks in 2023 and 2024, respectively. The asking price for Hendrickson, per Robinson, ranged from a second-round pick to a third-rounder plus another Day 3 selection.<\/p>\n

Simmons is on pace for a career-best season with 4.5 sacks and eight tackles for loss in six games and also leads all interior defensive linemen with 27 pressures and a 19.9% pass rush win rate (min. 75 pass-rushing snaps), according to PFF<\/a>. However, he seems like a less obvious fit for Dallas\u2019 defense. Sure, the Cowboys would arguably have the league\u2019s best trio of defensive tackles in Simmons, Kenny Clark<\/a><\/strong>, and Osa Odighizuwa<\/a><\/strong>, but their defense rarely features three defensive tackles on the field at the time.<\/p>\n

The potential redundancy is a long-term issue, too. Clark was just acquired in the Parsons trade with a contract, partially because he had multiple years left on his contract, and Odighizuwa signed a four-year extension earlier this year. Simmons\u2019 deal runs through 2027 with guaranteed money in 2026.<\/p>\n

Simmons would also cost a first-rounder plus a mid-round pick or a \u201cserviceable starter,\u201d per Robinson. That is a steep price to pay considering that Dallas has already invested plenty in the interior of their defensive line, including an intentional effort to acquire a veteran DT in the Parsons deal.\u00a0Given the Cowboys\u2019 current roster picture, Hendrickson would seem to make significantly more sense as a trade target in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys\u2019 2-3-1 start to the 2025 season has not deterred owner and\u00a0de facto general manager Jerry Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8998,134174,62,59924,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-313020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-jeffery-simmons","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-trey-hendrickson","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115394402512090090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}