FRISCO – There are these in Dallas who assume the playoff-bound Cowboys may be a bit shorthanded on the wideout place past CeeDee Lamb. Those critics will likely be surprised to study that one other NFC East playoff staff is concerned with gobbling up a receiver who wasn’t adequate to stay at The Star.
NFL sources informed CowboysSI.com on Tuesday afternoon that James Washington – lower final week by Dallas – is in New York for a exercise with the Giants.
The Cowboys maintain Washington in high regard, but he was released by Dallas Cowboys prior to the team’s final regular-season game of the 2022 season, what turned out to be a Week 18 loss at Washington, in part because the team has turned to newly signed T.Y. Hilton to contribute alongside Lamb, Michael Gallup and Noah Brown.
That group will be featured Monday in the Cowboys at Bucs playoff game.
Hilton, the previous Colts star, has paid off instant dividends in Dallas. Washington, then again, got here to Dallas as an offseason free agent vut the previous Pittsburgh Steelers pass-catcher suffered a foot damage in the beginning of coaching camp in Oxnard, forcing him to sit down out whereas on IR for a lot of the season.
Washington, 26 and a former second-round pick of Oklahoma State, performed simply 15 offensive snaps within the two video games after his return from the injured reserve, and he didn’t catch a cross.
Like, the Cowboys, the Giants are additionally within the playoffs, with a gathering brewing in Minnesota. But they accomplish that with some points at receiver, the place Darius Slayton is the staff’s high pass-catcher adopted by unremarkable helpers Isaiah Hodgins and Richie James.
The Cowboys have harbored some hope that Washington may boomerang again to Dallas on the follow squad. But for followers of the Texas native Washington, a roster spot with the Giants could be rather more enjoyable to observe.
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