The Cowboys are welcoming back a familiar face to a defensive backfield still missing several key pieces.
Dallas signed safety Julius Wood to the practice squad on Tuesday, marking the 24-year-old’s second stint with the team.
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Wood originally went undrafted in 2024 out of East Carolina. There, he was roommates with cornerback Shavon Revel Jr., the Cowboys’ third-round draft pick this past spring who is still awaiting clearance to practice after a knee injury.
The 6-foot-1-inch, 193-pound Wood spent the summer of 2024 in camp with the Cowboys but was waived during final cutdowns just prior to the start of that year’s regular season.
The Titans claimed Wood off waivers and played him in nine games, where he saw a fair amount of action on special teams and just a handful of defensive snaps. Late in the season, he received a six-game suspension for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drugs policy and was required to sit out the final five games of Tennessee’s season and the first game of his next season; he has been reinstated by the league, per reports.
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He was with the Titans again this past summer but did not survive final cuts.
Wood turned some heads in his first camp with the Cowboys, notably logging multiple interceptions during the 2024 preseason.
Veteran safety Malik Hooker is current on injured reserve in Dallas. Juanyeh Thomas filled in nicely for Hooker in Week 6’s win at New York, but the position is perilously thin behind Thomas and Donovan Wilson.
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This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Cowboys bring back ’24 camp star Julius Wood to bolster thin secondary