{"id":1026817,"date":"2026-10-13T23:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1026817\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:09:15","slug":"cowboys-sign-emari-demercado-release-alex-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1026817\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys sign Emari Demercado, release Alex Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week 6 of the NFL season is here, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> are making moves before their matchup with the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced it\u00a0signed running back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/cowboys-running-back-emari-demercado-22411995.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Emari Demercado<\/a> to the active roster, added offensive lineman\u00a0Nick Leverett to the practice squad and released cornerback Alex Austin from the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Running back Demercado was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/cowboys-activate-tyler-smith-ahead-bucs-game-22468972.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">waived on Oct. 8<\/a> to create a spot for offensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/tyler-smith-thumb-surgery-choice-dallas-cowboys-22463054.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Tyler Smith<\/a>. Smith was activated from injured reserve and returned to action in Week 5 against the Buccaneers. Before that,\u00a0Demercado, a TCU product, was claimed by the Cowboys off waivers on\u00a0Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Offensive lineman\u00a0Leverett was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/cowboys-release-nick-leverett-week-6-roster-move-22474325.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">released on Monday<\/a>, before being added to the practice squad. The Cowboys had signed Leverett to their active roster from the practice squad after Tyler Smith was placed on injured reserve. Leverett played both center and guard for Dallas during the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being released, cornerback Austin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/cowboys-db-injuries-juanyeh-thomas-alex-austin-22455306.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">added to the practice squad<\/a> Sept. 30, alongside cornerback\u00a0Tyrek Funderburk and safety Juanyeh Thomas, as the team dealt with injuries at all three levels of the defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 6 of the NFL season is here, and the Dallas Cowboys are making moves before their matchup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1026818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[7897,2009,230,229,257,2461,15423,7,6,24196],"class_list":["post-1026817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-cowboys","tag-alex-austin","tag-brief","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallascowboys","tag-emari-demercado","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nick-leverett"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117436125238815557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}