Cowboys sign LB Damien Wilson to their practice squad
There are now more players at linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys. Damien Wilson, a former linebacker with the Cowboys, was worked out by the team alongside La’el Collins, and Wilson was added to the practice squad today.
In 2015, Wilson was selected by the Cowboys in the fourth round, the same year Collins moved to Dallas.
As a rookie, he recorded just 15 tackles and did not start. Over the following three seasons, he would start 22 games for Dallas and have 34, 35, and 37 tackles. Wilson played with the Kansas City Chiefs for two seasons, starting 29 games and racking up 154 total tackles.
His most productive season in the league came in 2021 when he started all 17 games for the Jacksonville Jaguars and produced
a career-high 106 tackles and three sacks. Wilson spent the 2022 campaign with the Carolina Panthers and tallied 38 tackles on just 204 snaps.
This isn’t a blockbuster move for the Cowboys, it’s simply to get a veteran guy in the linebacker room after losing Leighton
Vander Esch earlier in the year and then recently releasing Rahsaan Evans.
That really only left Damone Clark and Markquese Bell as viable options at the position, although the Cowboys do use Donovan Wilson and Jayron Kearse to help out in certain formations.
With over 3,200 defensive snaps, this is a nice plug to stop the bleeding at linebacker for the Cowboys and it gives them a guy that can give you some quality reps when need be to keep Clark and Bell fresh if he’s called up.
Also, Wilson has special teams value with nearly 1,700 snaps logged in that capacity.
The Cowboys still have not completed a deal with La’el Collins, but there does seem to be an expectation that will get done.
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