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Todd ArcherESPN Staff Writer
- Covered NFL since 1997, Cowboys since 2003
- Previously covered Bengals and Dolphins
- Lives successful Dallas country with his woman and 2 children
FRISCO, Texas -- Looking to enactment up the their tally defense, the Dallas Cowboys acquired antiaircraft tackle Johnathan Hankins and a 2024 seventh-round prime from the Las Vegas Raiders for a 2023 sixth-round prime connected Tuesday, according to aggregate sources.
The Cowboys person allowed 117 oregon much rushing yards successful 5 of their 7 games and fertile 20th successful tally defence successful the NFL, allowing 4.4 yards per carry.
While they person recorded 29 sacks and person allowed conscionable 1,296 nett passing yards, the fewest by a Dallas defence done 7 games since 2003, they are scheduled to presently look 4 top-10 rushing offenses the remainder of the season, not including teams with apical runners specified arsenic the Tennessee Titans' Derrick Henry, the Minnesota Vikings' Dalvin Cook and the Indianapolis Colts' Jonathan Taylor.
Hankins was a second-round prime of the New York Giants successful 2013. He is successful his 10th play aft spending the past 5 seasons with the Raiders. He has started 1 of 5 games this play and has been credited with 10 tackles and a walk defended.
At 6-foot-3, 340 pounds, helium brings size to the Cowboys' antiaircraft front. Quinton Bohanna, who has served arsenic the chemoreceptor tackle for astir of the season, is the biggest antiaircraft tackle astatine 6-4, 330 pounds. The Cowboys added Carlos Watkins (6-3, 305 pounds) to the 53-man roster past week from the signifier squad and had Trysten Hill (6-3, 308 pounds) progressive implicit Neville Gallimore (6-2, 302 pounds).
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