{"id":319928,"date":"2025-08-26T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/319928\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:00:13","slug":"cowboys-initial-53-man-depth-chart-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/319928\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; initial 53-man depth chart for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Texas \u2014 The entire NFL is one huge step closer to kicking off the 2025 regular season, each of the 32 teams, including the Dallas Cowboys having dwindled their offseason roster from a hefty 90 players down to a little more than half that number.<\/p>\n<p>With the initial (key word) 53-man roster now set in Dallas, things begin to truly take shape for Brian Schottenheimer&#8217;s maiden voyage as the Cowboys&#8217; newest head coach; and there aren&#8217;t a lot of curveballs that were thrown in the building of the team&#8217;s depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, isn&#8217;t to say there were none thrown at all \u2014 a slider having been mixed in here or there, one of which being a trade that <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/cowboys-finalizing-asim-richards-trade-to-saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent 2023 fifth-round pick Asim Richards to Kellen Moore and the New Orleans Saints<\/a> and veteran cornerback Israel Mukuamu having been released to free agency.<\/p>\n<p>It was an intriguing list of cutdowns, and while there is still much to be sorted through over the next 2-3 days \u2014 e.g., any additional players heading to injured reserve after being carried on the active roster for the obligatory 24 hours to avoid ending their respective season \u2014 we can now take a first look at who finished the month of August by getting a nod from the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>For the full list of transactions that led to the shaping of this list, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/2025-cowboys-roster-diggs-cleared-la-el-collins-released\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">**click here**<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarvion Overshown, LB<br \/>\nJonathan Mingo, WR<br \/>\nPayton Turner, DE<br \/>\nShavon Revel, CB<br \/>\nJosh Butler, CB<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Guyton<br \/>\nTerence Steele<br \/>\nNate Thomas<br \/>\nAjani Cornelius<\/p>\n<p>Offensive line\/interior (5)<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Smith<br \/>\nCooper Beebe<br \/>\nTyler Booker<br \/>\nT.J. Bass<br \/>\nBrock Hoffman<\/p>\n<p>Javonte Williams<br \/>\nJaydon Blue<br \/>\nMiles Sanders<br \/>\nPhil Mafah<\/p>\n<p>Jake Ferguson<br \/>\nLuke Schoonmaker<br \/>\nBrevyn Spann-Ford<\/p>\n<p>CeeDee Lamb<br \/>\nGeorge Pickens<br \/>\nJalen Tolbert<br \/>\nKaVonte Turpin<br \/>\nRyan Flournoy<\/p>\n<p>Micah Parsons<br \/>\nDante Fowler<br \/>\nMarshawn Kneeland<br \/>\nDonovan Ezeiruaku<br \/>\nJames Houston<br \/>\nSam Williams<\/p>\n<p>Osa Odighizuwa<br \/>\nSolomon Thomas<br \/>\nMazi Smith<br \/>\nJay Toia<br \/>\nPerrion Winfrey<\/p>\n<p>Marist Liufau<br \/>\nJack Sanborn<br \/>\nKenneth Murray<br \/>\nDamone Clark<br \/>\nShemar James<\/p>\n<p>Trevon Diggs<br \/>\nDaRon Bland<br \/>\nKaiir Elam<br \/>\nAndrew Booth<br \/>\nZion Childress<br \/>\nCaelen Carson<\/p>\n<p>Malik Hooker<br \/>\nDonovan Wilson<br \/>\nJuanyeh Thomas<br \/>\nMarkquese Bell<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Aubrey<br \/>\nBryan Anger<br \/>\nTrent Sieg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 The entire NFL is one huge step closer to kicking off the 2025 regular season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,57669,7,417,420,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-319928","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-dalvsphi-2025","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-news-all-news","15":"tag-news-patrik-walker","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115097084234351174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319928","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=319928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}