FRISCO, Texas – The Cowboys will eventually remove 38 players from the roster by Tuesday, but they cut it down with 15 moves on Monday in the first wave of cuts.
Among those players release include some former draft picks, including 2023 fourth-round pick Junior Fehoko and Eric Scott, a cornerback drafted in the sixth round in 2023.
Also, linebacker Willie Harvey was released, along with veteran Damien Wilson, who returned to the team last season but was a 2015 draft pick of the Cowboys.
Fehoko was injured in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ preseason game on Saturday with the Chargers. He was officially placed on the
waived/injured list.
The deadline to cut the roster down to 53 players is Tuesday at 3 p.m. Here is the full list of roster moves made on Monday:
Waived/Released
- Burnett, Deontay (WR – Southern California)
- Cabral, Cohl (C – Arizona State)
- DeBerry, Josh (DB – Texas A&M)
- Harvey, Willie (LB – Iowa State)
- Holler, Alec (TE – Central Florida)
- Johnson, Cam (WR – Northwestern)
- Johnson, Jason (LB – Central Florida)
- Peat, Nathaniel (RB – Missouri)
- Scott, Eric (DB – Southern Mississippi)
- Huggins, Albert (DT – Clemson)
- Johnson, Tyron (WR – Oklahoma State)
- Wilson, Damien (LB – Minnesota)
(Waived/Injured)
- Durden, David (WR – West Florida)
- Fehoko, Viliami (DE – San Jose State
- Johnson, Durrell (DE – Liberty)
