{"id":984196,"date":"2026-08-06T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/984196\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:05:14","slug":"updates-race-for-special-teams-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/984196\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates: Race for special teams ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2:00 p.m. &#8212;<\/strong> With veteran Cowboys special teams ace CJ Goodwin retiring earlier this offseason, Dallas in need of a new face for the third phase of the game. On Wednesday, special teams coordinator Nick Sorensen said the team is taking a by-committee approach to filling Goodwin&#8217;s shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve got guys that are still really young, but that have done a lot of cool things for us like a [Ryan Flournoy], Brevyn [Spann-Ford], Marist [Liufau], even Shemar James did well as a rookie,&#8221; Sorensen said. &#8220;Markquese [Bell] has been around. We added PJ Locke who&#8217;s been in the league a while. I think it&#8217;s more by committee right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think CJ was kind of established as that guy that&#8217;s been the leader and been the old head. We&#8217;ve got a good mixture of guys that I think are sort of in that mid-20s age range to where they&#8217;re comfortable, but they&#8217;re also bringing up the young guys&#8230; it&#8217;s been cool to see them challenge each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Schottenheimer said earlier this week that Spann-Ford, Flournoy and Hunter Luepke had stood out to him as guys who could fill a role like Goodwin&#8217;s on special teams. There&#8217;s still time for players to further emerge, but for now, they&#8217;ll work together as a unit to improve and try and fill Goodwin&#8217;s void in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2:00 p.m. &#8212; With veteran Cowboys special teams ace CJ Goodwin retiring earlier this offseason, Dallas in need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":984197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1292,71772,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,71773],"class_list":["post-984196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-updates","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-yinzcam-web-view"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117047769678726848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984196","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=984196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}