{"id":668276,"date":"2026-01-11T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668276\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:58:23","slug":"dallas-cowboys-have-former-players-on-11-of-14-nfl-playoff-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/668276\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys have former players on 11 of 14 NFL playoff teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The playoffs start this weekend, and while the Cowboys didn\u2019t make the tournament this season, a number of former Cowboys are playing for playoff teams this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Some of the obvious ones are recent departures like Trevon Diggs, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Rico Dowdle, but I thought there had to be more, so I looked up the rosters of the 14 playoff teams and scanned those rosters for familiar names. What I found were 20 players on playoff rosters that had been with the Cowboys at one time in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s an overview of which former Cowboys are playoff-bound while their former teammates in Dallas get to spend the next few weekends on the couch wondering about the coaching changes coming to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Note that this is just a result of a cursory glance at the team rosters, there may be more former Cowboys on the rosters than are listed in the table above. Obviously not all of these players are on the 53-man roster, though the names in bold are on the active rosters of their team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Perhaps some of these former Cowboys will influence how much you support the individual playoff teams this year. The good news: there is &#8211; and this remains a universal truth &#8211; no reason whatsoever to support the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The playoffs start this weekend, and while the Cowboys didn\u2019t make the tournament this season, a number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,438,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-668276","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-dallas-cowboys-roster","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115875408049452592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668276","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=668276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}