{"id":766057,"date":"2026-05-01T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766057\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:01:28","slug":"dee-winters-surprised-by-trade-from-49ers-to-cowboys-i-wasnt-expecting-it-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/766057\/","title":{"rendered":"Dee Winters ‘surprised’ by trade from 49ers to Cowboys: ‘I wasn’t expecting it at all’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linebacker Dee Winters<\/a> was taken by surprise when he heard he was traded<\/a> from San Francisco to Dallas during the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I wasn’t expecting it at all. I was surprised quite a bit,” the former TCU Horned Frog said Thursday of the news, via the Cowboys’ official team website<\/a>. “I definitely didn’t have any plans on being traded. But everything happens for a reason, I’m excited that I’m back home and I get to play for the Dallas Cowboys.”<\/p>\n

The Cowboys got Winters for a fifth-round pick to help secure the middle of the defense. A backup his first two years in San Francisco, injuries opened the door for Winters to take a step forward in 2025. He started 17 games for the Niners, generating 101 tackles, eight tackles for loss, five passes defensed and earned a pick-six.<\/p>\n

There were some wobbly moments for Winters, but all in all, he filled in well following Fred Warner<\/a>‘s injury. The 25-year-old said the learning experience will help him immensely moving forward.<\/p>\n

“I think just the attention to detail last year, and just kind of understanding what offenses like to do,” Winters said. “I feel like I started to pick up on it more as I got reps. Just that experience each and every game getting better and trying to use that motto, I think that really helped me have a decent year last year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linebacker Dee Winters was taken by surprise when he heard he was traded from San Francisco to Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":766058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[43574,8998,142851,50,1232,530,255805,9005,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-766057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dee-winters","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116499689379360443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766057","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=766057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}