Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens skipped most of the team’s offseason program, but he reportedly opted to get some more work in with his teammates this week.
Clarence Hill of DLLS Sports reports that Pickens is taking part in a retreat for skill position players that quarterback Dak Prescott put together in Park City, Utah. Hill adds that Pickens and Prescott have also been joined by wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, tight end Jake Ferguson and other key players as there is 100 percent participation at the workouts.
Pickens did not take part in any of the team’s voluntary work after signing his franchise tag this offseason, but did report to their mandatory minicamp. He did not participate in team drills, however.
The Cowboys have said that they have no intention of negotiating a long-term deal with Pickens ahead of the July 15 deadline to get one done, but his presence at minicamp suggests that he will be reporting to training camp at the end of the month.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has long forced assistant coaches on his head coach.
In 2007, Jones hired Jason Garrett for an unnamed position while he hunted for a head coach. Garrett wasn’t hired as head coach but instead became the offensive coordinator for Wade Phillips. Jones has made several other assistant coach hirings himself since.
So, it should come as no surprise that Jones guaranteed Brian Schottenheimer a job regardless of what happened in the Cowboys’ head coaching search in 2025. Schottenheimer had an “agreement” to remain with the team as offensive coordinator if the team didn’t hire him as head coach.
“So, what we did is while they were going through the process -- ‘cause there’s a process, right? I wasn’t sure, and there was a number of other teams -- saying this very humbly -- that were courting me and trying to say, ‘Hey, we want you to come be our coordinator,’” Schottenheimer said on The Twins Take podcast. “And so, you know, after just talking it over with Stephen [Jones] and Jerry, like, OK, while we figure this out and you guys go through the interview process, which there’s a thorough interview process you have to go through. We had made an agreement that I would stay here no matter what. And I didn’t want to leave. ... I really wanted to be the head coach and put our fingerprint, our blueprint on it. And that’s what God had planned.”
The Cowboys did not have an eye on some of the hot offensive assistants that offseason, bypassing Ben Johnson and Liam Coen, among others, to interview Leslie Frazier, Robert Saleh and Kellen Moore. Moore likely wanted to call plays himself. Saleh and Frazier are defensive coordinators.
They hired Schottenheimer as head coach, and he went 7-9-1 in his first season as a head coach.
Marcellus Wiley, as they say, is having a moment. And not the good kind.
The former NFL defensive end and ESPN/Fox personality was arrested over the weekend for domestic battery. On Monday, his wife made very strong allegations against him in divorce paperwork and in a request for a restraining order.
Wiley has posted on social media clear, loud denials as to the alleged battery, and as to the claims made by his wife in court filings.
Wiley has yet to deny this one: TMZ reported on Wednesday that Preferred Bank sued Wiley in December 2025 for failing to satisfy a $500,000 loan.
Per TMZ, Wiley and his company, Dat Dude Entertainment, borrowed the money in May 2023, promising to pay it back after one year. The bank, per TMZ, claims it didn’t receive the money or the associated interest. Wiley allegedly received multiple extensions until December 2025, when the bank then filed suit.
As of this posting, Wiley has not addressed the TMZ report.
Wiley spent 10 years in the NFL, playing for the Chargers, Bills, Cowboys, and Jaguars.
Von Miller recently said he regretted choosing the Commanders over the Seahawks almost exactly a year ago. He signed with Washington on July 16, a season after the Commanders played in the NFC Championship Game. The Seahawks, though, won the Super Bowl.
Now, the edge rusher is looking for a new home.
He has said he would love to return to the Broncos and has previously talked about re-signing with the Commanders. The Cowboys, who play 24 miles from his hometown of DeSoto, now have his eye.
On Wednesday, Miller posted a photo of himself in a No. 24 Cowboys jersey with a “Shhh” emoji.
That came two days after he told R.J. Ochoa of SB Nation that “it would be great to be a Dallas Cowboy.”
“I grew up here in Dallas,” Miller said. “I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the Dallas Cowboys. If I played for the Dallas Cowboys this year, I [would] only have to drive 20 minutes to work. This would be the first time that my mom and dad don’t have to fly to every single game. My mom has been to every single game that I’ve ever played in, and she’ll be able to drive to all the home games, and you know I got so many family members here. My kids are here. My family is here; [my] girlfriend is here. Everybody’s here. It’d just be easy to work it out, so you never really know.
“You know we talked about that magnetic field in College Station [when he played at Texas A&M]. Maybe the magnetic field here in Dallas will get me there. So I would love to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and it’d be amazing.”
Miller won a Super Bowl with the Broncos, earning MVP honors in the process, and another with the Rams. The Cowboys haven’t even been to an NFC Championship Game since winning their last Super Bowl in the 1995 season.
In 14 NFL seasons with the Broncos, Rams, Bills and Commanders, Miller has 138.5 sacks. His nine sacks last season, when he played 37 percent of the defensive snaps, were his most since 2021.
The NFL is making a significant change to the offseason calendar for the 2027 season.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the free agent negotiating window will open on March 9 next year. That is the same date that the two-day window opened this year, but the change comes in how close it will be to the end of the Scouting Combine.
NFL teams will wrap up their examinations and interrogations of incoming prospects on March 8 in 2027, which moves the league away from having a week or so between the two events as they have in past years.
Under that setup, the Combine has always been rife with table-setting for free agency as agents and team executives are all in the same place with their minds on the same things. With that gap eliminated, there will likely be even more of that work being done in Indianapolis so that teams are ready to make moves right from the starting gun.
