Pro Bowl near defender Tyler Smith is the Cowboys' champion near tackle, but helium does not privation a full-time move. So, the Cowboys volition support Smith astatine near guard, creating a two-player contention to support Dak Prescott's blindside.
The Cowboys made Tyler Guyton the 29th wide prime successful 2024, but his inconsistency and his wellness person opened the doorway for Nate Thomas to triumph the job. Thomas, a seventh-round prime successful 2024, made his archetypal 4 vocation starts past season.
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During the offseason program, Cowboys manager Brian Schottenheimer declared it an unfastened competition.
"For me, it truly comes down to method and the habits that you build," Thomas said past month, via Patrik Walker of the squad website. "Last year, it was my archetypal twelvemonth playing — coming disconnected of wounded from the twelvemonth before. This has truly been my archetypal existent offseason to bid and get better, truthful that’s what I did."
Despite being drafted 204 picks aft Guyton successful 2024, Thomas has learned that the NFL is simply a meritocracy. He has a existent accidental to triumph the job, and Thomas feels amended prepared aft 341 snaps past play and an offseason moving with Duke Manyweather of OL Masterminds.
"I took what I did past twelvemonth — the good, the bad, the things I request to enactment connected — and went to Duke, the dude I bid with, and I said, 'Hey, assistance maine hole immoderate of these things that I'm having occupation with," Thomas said. "That's what I did."
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