The Cowboys wanted Joe Milton back on the practice squad, and on Wednesday, they made that happen.
The team announced it has signed the quarterback.
He will serve as the third quarterback behind Dak Prescott and Sam Howell, who are on the 53-player roster. Howell beat out Milton for the backup job to Prescott.
Milton served as the No. 2 last season.
In three preseason games, Milton completed 29 of 43 passes for 378 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. He added 12 carries for 14 yards and a rushing touchdown.
The Cowboys traded a fifth-round pick to New England for Milton in the 2025 offseason, and he served as Prescott’s backup last season.
The Jets are desperate for a kicker. So desperate that Justin Tucker was among the kickers who worked out for the team on Wednesday.
Michael Badgley and Josh Karty also were at the Jets’ team facility, according to Jordan Schultz of The Schultz Report.
Last season, the Jets had Nick Folk, who went 28-of-29 on field goals with a long of 58, but the team chose to let him walk in free agency.
Jason Sanders beat out Cade York for the job but then missed a field goal and an extra point in Friday’s preseason game against the Giants. Sanders is on the practice squad, and they claimed Blake Grupe off waivers earlier this week.
Tucker, a five-time first-team All-Pro, served a 10-game suspension to start last season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy. After he was reinstated, Tucker had tryouts with the Saints and Colts but was not signed.
Multiple women accused Tucker of misconduct during massage-therapy sessions. He denied the allegations, and he was never charged criminally nor sued civilly.
Badgley kicked in seven games for the Colts and two for the Bills last season and has made 83.2 percent of his career field-goal attempts with a long of 59. He has made 94 percent of his extra points.
Karty has made 79.6 percent of his field-goal tries with a long of 58 yards and is 88.7 percent on extra points in 25 career games with the Rams. Los Angeles cut him after eight games last season.
The Shilo Sanders bankruptcy trial continues in Colorado, as he tries to have a massive judgment of $11.89 million discharged.
Via Olivia Doak of the Boulder Daily Camera, Shilo Sanders took the witness stand on Tuesday.
He disputed prior testimony that painted him as the aggressor in a 2015 altercation that left John Darjean, who was a security guard at Shilo’s school, with serious injuries. Shilo said that Darjean was “getting aggressive” and “attacked and assaulted” Shilo. He added that Darjean choked him.
Other witnesses said they did not see Darjean choke Shilo Sanders.
The fight happened after Darjean attempted to confiscate Shilo’s phone.
Shilo did not testify at the proceedings that resulted in the $11.89 million verdict, because he didn’t show up for the trial.
Also on Tuesday, a doctor testified that Darjean’s injuries required a fusion of the C3 through C7 vertebrae in his neck.
A 2018 deposition of Deion Sanders also was played in court. He said that, on the day of the incident, Darjean called Deion and said he was dealing with a situation with Shilo.
“My exact words were to handle it like you’d handle anybody else,” Deion Sanders said in the deposition.
Shilo’s testimony is expected to continue on Wednesday. Deion possibly will be testifying virtually on Friday, depending on whether Shilo’s lawyers open the door to the question of why Shilo would have been intent on not relinquishing his phone.
The overriding question is whether the injuries inflicted by Shilo on Darjean were “willful and malicious.” If the judge finds that they were, the $11.89 million judgment will not be discharged through the federal bankruptcy laws.
On Tuesday, former Cowboys quarterback and CBS broadcaster Tony Romo issued a statement announcing his no-contest plea to OWI charges and expressing his intention to return to CBS, in time.
In response, CBS has nothing to say. And all that that implies.
Via John Ourand of Puck, CBS had no comment about the Romo statement. CBS also referred to its prior statement on Romo — a perfunctory, one-line release announcing that he would be placed on leave “until further notice.”
As Ourand observes, the fact that Romo’s statement wasn’t coordinated with CBS speaks to a wedge between the two sides, along with the possibly inevitable legal wrangling over the four years and $72 million left on his contract.
And, as Ourand reiterates, “it still appears exceedingly unlikely” that Romo will ever return to CBS.
CBS has done nothing to contradict the perception that it’s moving on from Romo, after nine years on the network’s No. 1 broadcast team. J.J. Watt has been bumped up to the top spot, and by all appearances he’ll be given a full and fair chance to retain it beyond 2026.
When former Cowboys quarterback and CBS broadcaster Tony Romo was arrested for OWI in Wisconsin, he initially indicated an unwillingness to submit to breath testing.
Apparently, he changed his mind.
According to WTMJ in Milwaukee, court records show that Romo’s blood-alcohol concentration was measured at 0.15 percent — nearly twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
The disclosure was made in connection with Romo’s no-contest plea to operating while intoxicated. He’ll pay $834 in fines, have his driver’s license suspended for six months, attend and complete an alcohol assessment program, and install an ignition interlock device on his vehicle for at least one year after his license is reinstated.
Earlier today, Romo issued a statement announcing the plea, explaining that he has developed an “over-reliance” on alcohol, and expressing an intention to return to CBS.
