{"id":209237,"date":"2025-07-15T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/209237\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:14:11","slug":"pic-6-getting-to-know-the-rookie-class-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/209237\/","title":{"rendered":"Pic 6: Getting to know the rookie class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Texas \u2014 The Cowboys have made a big overhaul to the roster here in Brian Schottenheimer&#8217;s first season. In total, there are over 30 new players, acquired by either trade, free agency, the draft or undrafted rookies.<\/p>\n<p>The past few years, Dallas has had some struggles defensively stopping the run. They&#8217;re hoping to change that in 2025 under Matt Eberflus, who has a strong track record with run defense, and added some big bodies to the interior of their defensive line up front.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we will continue our series of diving deep into the Cowboys&#8217; rookies backgrounds, with today&#8217;s edition featuring one of the two new defensive tackles that Dallas drafted in the seventh round, Tommy Akingbesote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 The Cowboys have made a big overhaul to the roster here in Brian Schottenheimer&#8217;s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,419,7,417,418,12609,20544,1901,6,2882],"class_list":{"0":"post-209237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-featured-offseason-2025","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-news-all-news","15":"tag-news-draft-central-2025","16":"tag-news-featured-sponsored-content","17":"tag-news-pic-6-2025","18":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-tommy-akingbesote"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114857906779284468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209237","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=209237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}