{"id":765494,"date":"2026-02-20T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765494\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:43:20","slug":"cowboys-waive-lb-after-missing-nfl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765494\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Waive LB After Missing NFL Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> made another offseason move after missing the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nfl\/nfl-playoff-picture-afc-nfc-playoff-seedings-after-week-14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL playoffs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Team reporter Patrik Walker posted that linebacker Logan Wilson has been waived. Now, this move will benefit the Cowboys in salary cap space, with a saving of $6.5M.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson arrived in Dallas last November after a trade from the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nfl\/cincinnati-bengals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>. The Bengals selected him 65th overall in the 2020 draft, and he grew into a key defender. He posted four straight 100-tackle seasons from 2021 through 2024 and totaled 11 career interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, his role shifted. Cincinnati moved toward younger players, and Wilson later joined Dallas. Across 15 games with both teams, he recorded 70 tackles and five passes defensed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys made another offseason move after missing the NFL playoffs. Team reporter Patrik Walker posted that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-765494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116105381061753124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765494","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=765494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}