The Dallas Cowboys are 3-3 without a single win at home. The team had high expectations coming into the year and could make a trade or two to get back on track.
While outlining potential trades across the National Football League, The Athletic’s Jacob Robinson and Dianna Russini proposed this trade that sends Dalvin Tomlinson from the Cleveland Browns to the Cowboys:
- Cowboys receive: defensive tackle Dalvin Tomlinson
- Browns receive: 2025 conditional draft pick
“Tomlinson offers Dallas a 30-year-old defensive tackle whom PFF ranks in the top 75th percentile at his position,” wrote Robinson and Russini “With no guaranteed money past this season, a rental to help their run game would be a logical move.”
Tomlinson signed a four-year, $54 million contract with the Browns before the 2023 season. The Browns seem to have no intent to compete this year. The team already traded Amari Cooper to the Buffalo Bills. The quarterback situation is its own story. They could look to gain draft capital to kickstart a rebuild.
Tomlinson would go a long way in fixing the run defense. While Dallas is missing key players on defense their return is not enough to fix the league’s worst run defense.
“Despite the ongoing narrative of a failed season, Dallas sits just a few games out of the division lead at 3-3,” wrote Robinson and Russini. “The impending returns of Micah Parsons and DaRon Bland will help, but aren’t enough to fix a run defense that is by far the league’s worst.”
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