Dallas City News

The Dallas Cowboys have made a trade prior to Tuesday’s deadline. Word broke right before 10am ET that Dallas was sending their fourth-round pick (yes, really… more on that in a moment) to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for wide receiver Jonathan Mingo. The Cowboys are also receiving Carolina’s seventh-rounder. Both picks are in 2025.

First of all, this obviously addresses a need for the Cowboys. They are down at wide receiver, not to mention that CeeDee Lamb is currently dealing with an AC joint sprain, but that was something they could have chosen to address over the offseason. They didn’t and now have clearly panicked.

What’s more is that quarterback Dak Prescott has an injured hamstring and Jerry Jones said himself Tuesday morning on 105.3 The Fan that he is likely headed to injured reserve. This means that the starting quarterback of the team will miss at least four of the nine games remaining for the team. You are talking about at the most five games for Prescott and Mingo to work together.

On top of all of that, the compensation involved here is a pretty terrible give from Dallas’ side. They just went through an NFL Draft without their fourth-round pick, learning how valuable it was, because they squandered it in the Trey Lance trade. This is the same Trey Lance who they now can’t depend on with Prescott injured – even though they should try anyway – because it has aged so poorly.

The Panthers have made it clear that they are sellers – the Panthers with one fewer win than the Cowboys – and even traded away their top wide receiver recently in Diontae Johnson. They got right around the same sort of compensation which also serves as a reflection of how bad this trade is for the Cowboys.

This move absolutely screams panic from the Dallas Cowboys and they are now compromising their future beyond their present yet again.

Unbelievable.