The Dallas Cowboys are reportedly considering free agent running back Nick Chubb, whom ESPN's Matt Bowen identified as a potential fit for the team. Chubb, who suffered a major knee injury in 2023, showed flashes of his former self last season with 506 rushing yards and three touchdowns, averaging over four yards per attempt. He could serve as a valuable RB2 or RB3 behind starter Javonte Williams, providing power and vision in short-yardage situations and contributing in the passing game on checkdowns. A one-year, inexpensive deal is seen as a possibility for the 30-year-old back
When it comes to the Dallas Cowboys , there seems to be no shortage of optimism each and every year they will finally get over the hump and make a deep playoff, and perhaps a Super Bowl run. Sadly, that optimism seems to quickly fizzle out, leaving us disappointed on what could’ve been. This year could be very much the same, however, for whatever reason it already feels a little different than it has in the past. The Cowboys have conducted business a little differently over the past two offseasons, first hiring Brian Schottenheimer in his first ever head-coaching job last year and now bringing in a first-time defensive coordinator in Christian Parker. Despite Dallas’ losing record last year, there’s still a lot of optimism surrounding Schottenheimer as the man for the job, and for the unproven new DC, Parker. While there is still a lot of unknown surrounding the Dallas Cowboys heading into the 2026 NFL season, there’s a lot of excitement encompassing this team right now. Today, we want to highlight the offensive side of the ball and share why we should all be excited about what this unit is capable of this season. By re-signing RB Javonte Williams and placing the franchise tag on WR George Pickens , the Dallas Cowboys retained their starters from a season ago. Williams and Pickens alone accounted for 20+ touchdowns last season for an offense that was one of the best in the entire league, finishing second in yards per game (391.9) and passing yards per game (266.3), seventh in points per game (27.7), and ninth in rushing yards per game (125.6). With the band back together, they should be even better in Year 2 under Brian Schottenheimer’s tutelage. CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens should once again be among the best WR duos in the entire league in 2026, but the attention these two will draw from opposing defenses on a week to week basis will create more favorable opportunities for the rest of Dallas’ offensive weapons, particularly Ryan Flournoy. He pretty much came out of nowhere last year and emerged as a reliable/trusted target for Dak Prescott . After catching 40 passes for 475 yards and four touchdowns, there’s a good chance he’ll be even better in Year 3 as Dallas’ WR3. A season ago the Dallas Cowboys were forced to navigate around the injury bug due to several of their starting offensive lineman missing multiple games throughout the season. Whether it was Cooper Beebe missing time in the middle of the OL or the revolving door on the blindside at LT, the Cowboys unfortunately didn’t play with the original starting five very much last year. Hopefully that was just a fluke. A healthy OL highlighted by three former first-round picks has the talent and ability to be one of the best units in the entire league this season
SeatGeek is the official NFL Ticketing Partner of the New York Post. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. After their 7-10 2024 season, the Dallas Cowboys blew everything up. America’s Team let head coach Mike McCarthy go, Jerry Jones traded star linebacker Micah Parsons and the club appeared to be poised to head in a new direction. Under new play-caller Brian Schottenheimer, Dak Prescott and co. went 7-9-1. Lots of change, little difference. Now, Schottenheimer heads into Year 2 on the hot seat with a difficult slate of opponents on his 2026 itinerary. Just a few of the most threatening foes slated to visit Arlington’s AT&T Stadium this year include Jayden Daniels ’ Washington Commanders in the season opener(Sept. 20), Brock Purdy ’s San Francisco 49ers (Nov. 15) and Jalen Hurts ’ Philadelphia Eagles (Nov. 26). While that may seem difficult, Yahoo! Sports reports that the Cowboys have been blessed with the NFL’s 12th easiest strength of schedule due to their subpar 2025 campaign. Collectively, their opponents had a .493 winning percentage last year. That’s a nice bonus. Throw in the fact that the franchise brought in new defensive coordinator Christian Parker, traded for elite edge rusher Rashan Gary , drafted safety Caleb Downs and signed safety Jalen Thompson and cornerback Cobie Durant to address defensive concerns, and things are looking a bit brighter in Dallas. “Right now we got tunnel vision on doing things the right way,” Parker, 34, said in a press conference. On the other side of the ball, Prescott’s electric offense with George Pickens , CeeDee Lamb , Javonte Williams , Jake Ferguson and offensive lineman Tyler Smith return. If you want to join the “Dem Boyz” and see America’s Team duke it out live, tickets are available for all eight 2026 home games at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium as of today on SeatGeek. SeatGeek is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event. For those who prefer to pick and choose which home games make the most sense for you to attend, we’re here for you too. Below, you’ll find a list of all upcoming Dallas Cowboys 2025 home games at Arlington’s AT&T Stadium including dates, start times and opponents. Dallas Cowboys home game dates Commanders vs. Cowboys Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3:25 p.m. Buccaneers vs. Cowboys Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7:15 p.m. Cardinals vs. Cowboys Sunday, Nov. 1 at 12 p.m. 49ers vs. Cowboys Sunday, Nov. 15 at 3:25 p.m. Titans vs. Cowboys Sunday, Nov. 22 at 12 p.m. Eagles vs. Cowboys Thursday, Nov. 26 at 3:30 p.m. Jaguars vs. Cowboys Sunday, Dec. 27 at 7:20 p.m. Giants vs. Cowboys Sunday, Jan. 3, 2027 at 12 p.m. If you think you might find yourself traveling with the Cowboys this year, here’s where you can find them on the road once the 2026 season begins. Dallas Cowboys away game dates Cowboys vs. Giants Sunday, Sept. 13 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ Ravens vs. Cowboys Sunday, Sept. 27 at Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, ES Cowboys vs. Texans Sunday, Oct. 4 at NRG Stadium in Houston , TX Cowboys vs. Packers Sunday, Oct. 18 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay , WI Cowboys vs. Eagles Monday, Oct. 26 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia , PA Cowboys vs. Colts Sunday, Nov. 8 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN Cowboys vs. Seahawks Monday, Dec. 7 at Lumen Field in Seattle , WA Cowboys vs. Rams Sunday, Dec. 20 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA Cowboys vs. Commanders Jan. 9 or 10, 2027 at Northwest Stadium in Landover, MD There is no shortage of ways to watch Cowboys games live from the comfort of your own home this season. You can find head coach Schottenheimer’s stacked squad on ABC, CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC and the NFL Net
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The official 2026 Dallas Cowboys schedule has been finalized! Analyzing the schedule is a fun exercise that allows us to examine the high-upside opportunities, and brace for the inevitable brutal stretches. To fully break down how this piece of paper will shape the upcoming season, here are five observations that stand out the most. Hoarding the national spotlight! The Cowboys and primetime games are like peas and carrots. They just go together. The NFL gave them five games under the lights this year, and that does not even include their traditional Thanksgiving Day affair. Three of these primetime games come in back-to-back-to-back weeks with contests against Tampa Bay , Green Bay , and Philadelphia . This is nothing new for America’s Team as they are frequent performers on the week’s biggest stage thanks to their enormous television draft. Packing heavy for hostile territory Every schedule has a drawback, and for this year’s group, it is the travel itinerary against top-tier competition. Of the seven toughest opponents on the slate, a staggering six of them will be played far away from the comfortable confines of AT&T Stadium. Dallas will have to pack their bags for brutal road tests against the Green Bay Packers , Los Angeles Rams , Seattle Seahawks , Philadelphia Eagles , and Houston Texans . Even their “home” game against the Baltimore Ravens is way over yonder in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It feels incredibly unlucky to look at the marquee matchups on your calendar and realize almost all the toughest games will be on the road, forcing the team to dig deep with an extra layer of resiliency this year. Scaling the twin peaks Surviving the season will come down to navigating two distinct, punishing stretches of games that will test the roster depth to its absolute limits. The first gauntlet hits early, spanning from Week 3 through Week 7, where they will play five-straight games against teams that have won their division at least once in the past two seasons. If they survive that initial wave, an even more exhausting stretch looms from Week 10 all the way to Week 15 as all but one of those games will feature an opponent who has played in the NFC Championship game over the past three seasons. This late-year mountain features very little room for error, requiring the coaching staff to have their guys firing on all cylinders before the winter weather even sets in. A soft takeoff before the storm Fortunately, the football gods offered a bit of mercy at the very beginning. Dallas gets an arguably easier start to the year by opening up against the New York Giants and Washington Commanders for their first two games. This soft beginning is an absolute blessing because it allows the team to ease into their brand-new defensive scheme without being thrown directly into the fire against a powerhouse offense. The luxury of development time is extended even further when you realize they face five teams who finished in the Top 10 in scoring last year, but they do not have to see a single one of those explosive offenses until Week 9. Channeling the ghosts of 1990 Perhaps the weirdest element of this 2026 campaign is the extraordinarily late bye week. The last time the Cowboys had an off-week this deep into the winter calendar was all the way back in 1990. History loves a good rhyme because that 1990 season featured a similar backdrop to what we see today, including a second-year head coach trying to establish his culture and a massive defensive scheme change taking place on the field. To top it all off, that historical team was operating under the immediate fallout of trading away a star player for massive draft capital the year prior. Back then, it was Herschel Walker. This time, it’s Micah Parsons . When you stack up everything, the 2026 schedule delivers all the fun and excitement that each year’s fresh slate of games offers. The Cowboys will be tested, but the level of difficulty will have more to do with how good they are than
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The 2026 regular season schedule was officially released on Thursday night for all 32 NFL teams. For the Baltimore Ravens, this year’s schedule announcement was highly anticipated as the franchise enters a new-look era under head coach Jesse Minter. How does each game on the schedule shape up? Let’s run through all 17 matchups and break them down. The Ravens open their season on the road for the third straight season, this time traveling to Indianapolis to play the Colts. The Colts were one of the league’s best teams during the first half of the 2025 season before tailing off and finishing with a losing record (8-9). They have a big question mark at quarterback with Daniel Jones returning from a torn achilles injury but a solid offensive line and talent on defense. They also one of the best running backs in the league in Jonathan Taylor , which will give the Ravens’ run defense a big test right away. In Week 2, the Ravens will host the New Orleans Saints in their home opener. The Saints finished 6-11 last season but ended the year winning four of their final five games. Rookie quarterback Tyler Shough showed a lot of growth and nearly won Offensive Rookie of the Year. The Ravens a clear talent advantage over the Saints on paper but will have to avoid overlooking a young team at home ahead of a more anticipated matchup. The Saints also have a good group of playmakers on offense with WR Chris Olave , RB Alvin Kamara , RB Travis Eteienne, and incoming first-round pick WR Jordan Tyson. While this is technically an away matchup, the Ravens will be playing the Cowboys in Brazil. International games always have an unpredictable nature to them. The Cowboys missed out on the playoffs last season but have plenty of talent, headlined by a top-tier wide receiver duo ( CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens ) along with gunslinger quarterback Dak Prescott . Their passing attack will challenge the Ravens’ secondary and be a good litmus test for how much their pass defense has improved from last year. Dallas also made big upgrades to their defense this offseason and should be more formidable on that side of the ball. After a long travel week out of the country, the Ravens will be pleased to get another favorable matchup back on home turf. The Titans finished tied for the league’s worst record last season with just three wins, although they will a much different look in 2026. They should be an improved squad under Robert Saleh and a new coaching staff in quarterback Cam Ward’s sophomore season. However, the Ravens still have the talent advantage across the board. This will be the second home game in the first few weeks where the Ravens are facing a rising second-year quarterback. The Ravens’ first primetime contest of the year comes on the road in Week 5, where they’ll face the Atlanta Falcons. It’s unclear who will be the Falcons’ starting quarterback between Michael Penix Jr . and Tua Tagovailoa , but they have high-level offensive playmakers regardless in RB Bijan Robinson , WR Drake London , and TE Kyle Pitts . The Falcons finished one game under .5o0 last season and hired a new head coach, Kevin Stefanski, who the Ravens are familiar with from his time in Cleveland . Stefanski should help the Falcons be competitive and this will be a challenging road matchup in a dome environment. In Week 6, the Ravens will play their first consecutive road game and also their first divisional opponent. It will be the team’s first taste of the Cleveland Browns with Todd Monken as the new head coach. Given Monken was Baltimore’s offensive coordinator for the past three seasons, it will be interesting to see if he has any advantages up his sleeve. Myles Garrett ’s game-wrecking ability always makes the Browns’ defense a threat, but their uncertainty at quarterback remains on the other side of the ball. Their young talent on offense makes the group intriguing, though, and not to be overlooked. The Browns used several early-round draft picks this year on offe
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The Dallas Cowboys will travel the fourth-most miles in the NFL in 2026, including a trip to Brazil and multiple cross-country and East Coast games. This extensive travel could impact game preparation and schedule difficulty
As part of the NFL’s slow-dripping of its schedule release, the league announced its full international schedule on Wednesday. Based on the slate of home teams, the final possibilities for the Green Bay Packers to play globally in 2026 were either as the road team against the Detroit Lions (Germany) or New Orleans Saints (France). With that being said, there were previous statements made that the Lions wanted to protect the Packers game from being an international contest, so it was doubtful that Green Bay would be pegged to that slot. So when it was announced officially that the New England Patriots were going to take on the Lions and the Pittsburgh Steelers were going to play the Saints, it officially ruled the Packers out of international play. Now that the Dallas Cowboys will play a second international game, as the host team in Brazil, Green Bay is tied (with two games played) as the club with the fewest global contests played in NFL history. While they’ve managed to avoid an overseas game in 2026, it’s setting up for the Packers to be “due” for an international game in future seasons. The league will release its full schedule on Thursday at 7 pm ET
Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens signed his franchise tag on April 29, and executive vice president Stephen Jones said soon after the team expected Pickens to show up for voluntary work. Monday was the first team workout for the Cowboys since Pickens signed the one-year, $27.3 million deal, and Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Pickens was not present. Nothing is mandatory until June 16, so he can stay away until then without being fined. The Cowboys announced they will not negotiate a long-term deal with Pickens this offseason, and Jones has repeatedly said the team has “zero interest” in trading Pickens. The Cowboys traded for Pickens a year ago, and he led the team in targets (137), catches (93), yards (1,429) and touchdowns (eight) in 2025
The NFL will announce its international game schedule on May 13, ahead of the full 2026 schedule release. Nine international games are planned, with the 49ers playing the Rams in Melbourne and the Cowboys facing the Ravens in Rio already confirmed. Other teams involved include the Jaguars (twice in London), Commanders (London), 49ers (Mexico City), Falcons (Madrid), Lions (Munich), and Saints (Paris)
The NFL announced that the 2026 regular-season schedule will be released on Thursday, May 14, with two games already known: 49ers-Rams in Australia and Ravens-Cowboys in Brazil
