The Cowboys now have four centers on the club after adding a former first-round pick to the practice squad.
Another former first-round draft pick has joined the Cowboys in the locker room.
Billy Price, a center, has been added by Dallas to the practice squad. Prior to the game in Arizona in Week 3, C.J. Goodwin was elevated to the active roster, leaving a void that Price’s arrival addresses.
Price, who turns 29 in October, was chosen by the Bengals with the 21st overall choice in the 2018 draft out of Ohio State. The 6-foot-4-inch former Rimington Award winner was dealt to the Giants in 2021 after making 42 game appearances in three seasons with Cincinnati. He then hopped from Las Vegas to Arizona in the previous season and, this past summer, New Orleans.
Following a 28-16 setback in which the offensive line saw several replacements, including at center, Dallas signed him. Due to a hamstring injury, Brock Hoffman replaced starting player Tyler Biadasz in the lineup on Sunday. This was Hoffman’s third and only gameday promotion from the practice squad. To be active this season, he has to be added to the active roster.
Price becomes the team’s practice squad center, along with Sean Harlow. In 2023, Harlow will have two more gameday altitudes.
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The Cowboys’ first 53-man roster, released on August 29, had just one center. In less than a month, the club finds itself with four of them.
This development may indicate something about the extent of Biadasz’s ailment or Hoffman and/or Harlow’s long-term goals. However, it’s a scenario worth keeping an eye on.
The story first surfaced on Cowboys Wire.
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The Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor (RoH) celebrates past players, coaches, and team officials who have made exceptional achievements to the Dallas Cowboys football organization. It was formerly located around Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas, and is presently located around AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Ring of Honor, according to Jerry Jones in 1993, “stands for the men who built this franchise and had it called America’s team”[1]
Tex Schramm was the creator of the Ring of Honor, and it was inaugurated on November 23, 1975, Bob Lilly Day in Dallas. During halftime, the team revealed Lilly’s name and jersey number (74), beneath the press box, and celebrated the first-ever Cowboys reunion on that day. Wearing his Cowboy jersey once again, Lilly (who had retired from the NFL in July 1975 after 14 years) accepted the accolade and many other presents, which included a vehicle, a gun, and a hunting dog, with grace. Lilly was the inaugural recipient. Cowboys owner Clint Murchison, general manager/president Tex Schramm, and head coach Tom Landry were all in attendance. Lilly has the honor of being the first inductee and returning to present each new participant in the RoH.
