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Given their inability to sign a new starting linebacker here in the opening days of free agency, and given the relative lack of options still on the market for the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys, it increasingly looks as though the team will need\u00a0 to do two things in the coming weeks to fill what is a very obvious hole: add an experienced veteran, and use one of their two Top 20 picks to get one of the top linebackers in this draft.<\/p>\n

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This is, no doubt, a very good linebacker draft. The Cowboys won\u2019t have a shot at Arvell Reese, who wants to play the edge anyway. But there is a chance that Sonny Styles drops to No. 12, and that would be the best-case scenario for Dallas. If they have to wait until pick No. 20, they\u2019ll have to hope Georgia\u2019s CJ Allen is still on the board, or reach for someone like Texas Tech\u2019s Jacob Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

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Even if the draft works out favorably, the Cowboys will still be looking at a situation in which they\u2019re dropping a rookie into a key spot. They\u2019ll want a veteran both as insurance and as a mentor. Which raises the question; Why haven\u2019t the Cowboys already signed\u00a0Bobby Wagner?<\/p>\n

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Bobby Wagner an Ideal Fit for Cowboys<\/h2>\n

Wagner, of course, is a future Hall of Fame linebacker, a 10-time Pro Bowler with 11 All-Pro first or second-team selections on his resume. He has won a Super Bowl, he was with Brian Schottenheimer in Seattle, he was the Walter Payton Man of the Year for 2025, and he can still play\u2013he was the No. 9-ranked linebacker in the league at\u00a0Pro Football Focus last season.<\/p>\n

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He is 35, and though he has started every game but one in the last 10 years, he would not have to do that in Dallas. Wagner and the rookie the team picks would just need to be better than Kenneth Murray and\u00a0Logan Wilson\u00a0were last year, and it\u2019s a low bar to clear.<\/p>\n

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Spotrac projects him\u00a0garnering a one-year, $7.7 million contract. The Cowboys can afford that, and they should.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I Want Bobby Wagner\u2019<\/h2>\n

Former Cowboys receiver Jesse Holley, now an analyst at DLLS Cowboys and elsewhere, would really like to see Wagner in Dallas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want Bobby Wagner,\u201d Holey said on the DLLS podcast. \u201cHere\u2019s why: I am not looking for Bobby Wagner to come onto this football team and be a starter. Not what I want Bobby Wagner for. I do think Bobby Wagner does\u2014I think Bobby Wagner is super-intelligent, Bobby Wagner has taken very good care of himself. He still has a little bit of juice left. But I don\u2019t want Bobby Wagner as a starter. What I want Bobby Wagner for, is a teaching piece. I want Bobby Wagner around my young linebackers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cowboys Need a \u2018Big Bro\u2019 on Defense<\/h2>\n

Holley also said that, as it becomes clear that the Cowboys will be using a rookie in the middle next year, they\u2019ll want someone who can \u201cbig bro\u201d the new guy. Wagner is ideal for that role.<\/p>\n

Said Holley: \u201cI am starting to believe, as a way of this thing is working out as of this week, I believe the Cowboys now probably will shift their focus to the draft for linebacker. And if that\u2019s the case, then you need\u2014I don\u2019t think\u00a0DeMarvion Overshown\u00a0is to a place yet where he can big-bro somebody. Where he can put somebody under his wing. \u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think having somebody like Bobby Wagner in your locker room, he is a tremendous leader. He can give that kind of leadership that\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0gives the offense, he can give you that on defense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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