The Dallas Cowboys‘ loss to the Carolina Panthers drops them to 2-3-1 six weeks into the 2025 NFL season. They’re in danger of falling to last in the NFC East in Week 7 with a game against divisional foe Washington.
But Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones still thinks his team is in the hunt for the division and a playoff spot. Washington’s loss to the Chicago Bears in the final game of Week 6 gave him some hope.
“It just reminded me that we are still in it,” Jones said today during an announcement that the 2026 East-West Shrine Bowl will be played at the team’s practice facility – The Star – in Frisco, Texas. “I see so much parity, then you factor in that these teams get compromised with injury. We can have and may [have it too] but if we should have some good go of it here over the next weeks ahead with our injury situation and return of injury and we can get some wins.”
The Cowboys may be expecting two players back on what’s been a struggling defense so far in 2025. Linebacker DeMarvion Overshown could be back after the team’s bye Nov. 9 after a serious knee injury last year. Rookie cornerback Shavon Revel Jr. may make his debut in the next month or so as he finishes rehabilitation on a torn ACL suffered in college.
But what if Jones and company don’t wait for those two players to make their debut? Dallas is armed with extra draft picks thanks to the Micah Parsons trade – an extra first-round pick in the 2026 and 2027 NFL Drafts – and more cap space.
Jones revealed the team is weighing their options ahead of the Nov. 4 deadline.
“We will weigh what are the likelihood of the players we’ve got coming back, how will they impact where that will put this team as opposed to should we add a player in a trade?” Jones said. “And I don’t have a trade in mind at all. And that comes about right now if someone is on the phone calling.”
