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The Cowboys have kept their special teams battery together, re-signing Anger after extending long snapper Trent Sieg. He returns to Dallas on a two-year deal. The 36-year-old is a two-time Pro-Bowler and averaged 48.5 yards per punt last season.

Dallas signed the veteran leg to a one-year deal last offseason. In his tenth year as a pro, Anger earned his first Pro Bowl nod while averaging 48.4 yards per punt. The deal vaults anger into the top-five punters by yearly salary. An elite option even at 33 years old, Anger is now under contract through the 2024 season.

Anger, 32, was 12th in net punting average last season for Houston. The Cowboys, meanwhile, cut punter Chris Jones last month. The Texans parted ways with Anger to create salary cap space just two years after signing him to a three-year contract. He should compete with punter Hunter Niswander for the Week 1 job. Probably he’ll be required to punt less often in 2021 with the Cowboys’ explosive offense churning out yards and points.

The move saves the Texans over $2 million against the cap. 32 years old, Anger is coming off a relatively strong season, finishing 12th in net average. Anger is best-known for being drafted by the Jaguars in the third round of the 2012 draft, five picks before Russell Wilson.

Anger has put together a solid year, ranking just inside the top-15 with an average of 46.2 yards per punt. His 52.5% of punts inside the 20-yard line leads the NFL. A journeyman, Anger’s new deal keeps him in Houston through 2022.

Anger was cut in favor of Trevor Daniel at the end of the preseason, but Bill O’Brien has changed his mind. Anger, who is most notably the punter who was drafted ahead of Russell Wilson in the third round of the 2012 draft, has spent three seasons with the Bucs.

The punter the Jaguars drafted ahead of Russell Wilson in the third round of the 2012 draft, Anger will compete with Trevor Daniel for the punting gig in Houston. Anger spent the last three years in Tampa Bay but was released in March.

Anger was due $3 million after finishing as PFF’s No. 22-graded punter last season. Anger placed only 16 of his 57 punts inside the opposing 20-yard line, which ranked 30th in the league.

A touching tribute to the late Al Davis. The first and only punter to come off the board in 2011 was Atlanta’s Matt Bosher at No. 192. Anger is at least a very good punter, boasting one of the NCAA’s strongest legs last season while routinely pinning teams inside the 20. Regardless, it’s a baffling pick from increasingly unpredictable Jaguars GM Gene Smith.

The Jags shocked everyone by taking Anger in the third round of April’s draft. It’s the highest a punter has been selected since 1995. The three-time All-Pac 10 selection has no competition for the gig in training camp. First-rounder Justin Blackmon is now the Jaguars’ only unsigned pick.