{"id":183030,"date":"2026-05-04T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:14:25","slug":"%f0%9f%92%94-hes-done-and-cowboys-fans-are-heartbroken-the-team-is-quietly-moving-on-from-their-disastrous-fourth-round-pick-a-player-who-couldnt-even-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/figure>\n

Just six month before the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0made one of the more significant trade moves of the team\u2019s recent history\u2013adding\u00a0George Pickens\u00a0from the Steelers in a package for a third-round pick\u2013Dallas made another grab for a talented-but-maligned player\u00a0 who had the potential to be the WR2 next to\u00a0CeeDee Lamb. That was\u00a0Jonathan Mingo.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Cowboys traded the No. 114 pick in the 2025\u00a0NFL\u00a0draft for Mingo at the trade deadline. In May of last year, Dallas traded No. 76 overall in 2026 to the Steelers for Pickens. What a difference 38 picks makes, eh?<\/p>\n

Pickens, of course, went on to post 1,429 yards receiving last year, third in the NFL and fourth all-time in the Cowboys\u2019 single-season record book. After his star turn, there was talk of him getting a contract in the $120 million-plus range, before he wound up being franchise-tagged by the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Mingo? In a season-and-a-half he has played 14 forgettable games for the Cowboys, with six total catches. He tallied one catch, for 25 yards, in all of last season.<\/p>\n

Cowboys Wide Receiver Room is Crowded<\/h2>\n

The emergence of Cowboys sixth-rounder\u00a0Ryan Flournoy\u00a0behind Pickens last year, and the presence of Kavontae Turpin as the team\u2019s No. 4 receiver\/gadget-play specialist means there really is not room or need for Mingo. Moreover, the Cowboys added receiver Anthony Smith with the first pick of the seventh round and signed veteran Marquez Valdes-Scantling as a free agent.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The receiver depth chart is crowded. And despite the cost of a fourth-rounder for Mingo, it will be hard for Dallas to justify keeping him on the roster through the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Mingo Not Long for Cowboys<\/h2>\n

That\u2019s why, in listing four players who might be in trouble to hang onto their roster spots in 2026 at the Blogging the Boys Cowboys website, Mingo was arguably the highlight\u2013or, at least, the most consequential, given what the Cowboys gave up to bring him in.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

In an article titled, \u201c4 Cowboys on the chopping block following the draft,\u201d the\u00a0site noted that the Cowboys have, \u201crealistically one, maybe two, spots left on the team at wide receiver. Dallas added Parris Campbell, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and drafted Anthony Smith in the seventh round. It\u2019s become apparent that at the bottom of the roster, the Cowboys are searching for speed. If it comes to only five receivers, Mingo could be on the outside looking in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"Jonathan
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given how little Mingo has done to claim his spot on the roster heading into 2026, that is not a big surprise. He was only one-and-a-half years removed from being a second-round pick when Carolina gave up on him in 2024, so it also should not be a surprise that the Cowboys have gotten little out of him, too.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ryan Flournoy Most Likely Took Jonathan Mingo\u2019s Role<\/h2>\n

While the rise of Pickens tends to get the most attention, especially when it comes to sinking the career of Mingo, it\u2019s probably more accurate to point to Flournoy\u2019s Cowboys breakout as the real reason Mingo never saw much of the field last season. At his best, Mingo was not going to be anything more than a No. 3 on the depth chart, a role that Flournoy filled so admirably last year.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

More is expected from Flournoy, who was solid even when both Lamb and Pickens were healthy, but who did the most important thing a No. 3 can do on an NFL roster\u2013he played like a WR2 when there were injuries ahead of him.<\/p>\n

Flournoy finished the year with 40 catches for 475 yards and four touchdowns. He had four games with at least four catches and\u00a0two games of 1oo-plus yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just six month before the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0made one of the more significant trade moves of the team\u2019s recent history\u2013adding\u00a0George Pickens\u00a0from the Steelers in a package for a third-round… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d - NEWS USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just six month before the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0made one of the more significant trade moves of the team\u2019s recent history\u2013adding\u00a0George Pickens\u00a0from the Steelers in a package for a third-round...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NEWS USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-04T11:14:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"526\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"526\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MrThanh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MrThanh\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030\",\"name\":\"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d - NEWS USA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-04T11:14:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-04T11:14:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/850fd1b8bcb1d322b7f0a04b3d2f18ec\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg\",\"width\":526,\"height\":526},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/\",\"name\":\"NEWS USA\",\"description\":\"Your Daily Dose of Sports News and Updates\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/850fd1b8bcb1d322b7f0a04b3d2f18ec\",\"name\":\"MrThanh\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c8f2d90ff2a21a61a5e6bc0619622a5021fc65353885d9d7b3db1c8c7c1ca8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c8f2d90ff2a21a61a5e6bc0619622a5021fc65353885d9d7b3db1c8c7c1ca8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"MrThanh\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?author=6\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d - NEWS USA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d - NEWS USA","og_description":"Just six month before the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0made one of the more significant trade moves of the team\u2019s recent history\u2013adding\u00a0George Pickens\u00a0from the Steelers in a package for a third-round...","og_url":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030","og_site_name":"NEWS USA","article_published_time":"2026-05-04T11:14:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":526,"height":526,"url":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"MrThanh","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"MrThanh","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030","url":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030","name":"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d - NEWS USA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg","datePublished":"2026-05-04T11:14:25+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-04T11:14:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/850fd1b8bcb1d322b7f0a04b3d2f18ec"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/686944383_122224683884311244_891559482875211908_n.jpg","width":526,"height":526},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=183030#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u201c\ud83d\udc94 HE\u2019S DONE\u2026 And Cowboys Fans Are Heartbroken: The Team Is Quietly Moving On From Their Disastrous Fourth-Round Pick \u2014 A Player Who Couldn\u2019t Even Beat Out a Seventh-Rounder\u2026 What Went So Wrong in Dallas?\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/","name":"NEWS USA","description":"Your Daily Dose of Sports News and Updates","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/850fd1b8bcb1d322b7f0a04b3d2f18ec","name":"MrThanh","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c8f2d90ff2a21a61a5e6bc0619622a5021fc65353885d9d7b3db1c8c7c1ca8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c8f2d90ff2a21a61a5e6bc0619622a5021fc65353885d9d7b3db1c8c7c1ca8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"MrThanh"},"url":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?author=6"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183032,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183030\/revisions\/183032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}