‘Inside Knowledge’: Cowboys Sign Takk McKinley? Jerry Jones Reveals Plan

OXNARD, Calif. – The Dallas Cowboys – benefiting from what they consider is “inside data” – introduced free-agent defensive finish Takkaris McKinley in for a go to on Saturday. However we’ll faucet the brakes on the experiences {that a} signing is imminent.

“Clearly we now have him right here for a motive,” COO Stephen Jones stated. “We’re very fascinated about him.”

On the identical time, a supply tells CowboysSI.com that McKinley – coming off a torn Achilles damage that lower quick his 2021 season with the Cleveland Browns – is fascinated about a “tour” of groups which may wish to signal him, an inventory that might embrace the Browns and the Arizona Cardinals.

Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones stated the 6-2-250 pass-rusher McKinley, 26, “has an opportunity to play this 12 months. We’ll see the place we go from right here.”

The Cowboys consider they’ve solutions at defensive finish even within the wake of Randy Gregory’s departure to Denver. DeMarcus Lawrence is at one finish and rookie Sam Williams might win the opposite finish job, with competitors from Lawrence, Dorance Amstrong, Tarell Basham and Dante Fowler – who, like McKinley, has a connection right here because of Dallas defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, who was the pinnacle coach in Atlanta when McKinley was drafted there.

McKinley, picked twenty sixth general by the Falcons in 2017, burst onto the scene in his first two NFL seasons, totaling 13 sacks, and he has 20 profession sacks in 60 video games. However he is bounced across the league a bit since then and is now on the lookout for a reboot.

“We had him in for a go to, cherished him popping out,” Stephen Jones, including that Dallas is “an enormous fan … of the way in which he performs the sport — play temperament, play fashion. After which in fact the plain: Dan coached him. We’ve bought numerous inside data there, too. You may’t have sufficient guys who can rush the passer.”

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