{"id":26621,"date":"2025-06-23T23:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=26621"},"modified":"2025-06-23T23:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:12:40","slug":"breaking-3-cowboys-players-facing-a-make-or-break-season-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=26621","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : 3 Cowboys players facing a make or break season in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-aQMaeJiXfbZmdSu5lWRGswQh5RNSMnLbvw&amp;s\" alt=\"Dallas Cowboys players facing a make or break seasons in 2025 - Blogging  The Boys\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"iczDP0\">Nearly every NFL player reaches a crossroad at some point in their career. The Dallas Cowboys have several players who have reached that juncture and are facing a make or break 2025 season with the organization. Below are the ones we believe have the most to prove this year one way or another.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"bIMObI\" \/>\n<h3 id=\"qQR56r\"><strong>DT Mazi Smith<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p id=\"RUlxQ2\">Anyone else surprised to see Mazi Smith make this list? Probably not. Sadly, Dallas&#8217; 2023 first-round pick as of yet hasn&#8217;t lived up to his draft status. Playing for different defensive coordinators in each of his first two seasons with the Cowboys probably didn&#8217;t help his development, which puts into question how he&#8217;ll perform with his third DC in three years (Matt Eberflus). If he doesn&#8217;t take a significant jump during his ever important Year 3, he could be playing elsewhere as soon as next season.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"MbV5Yh\" \/>\n<h3 id=\"jqlpFB\"><strong>TE Luke Schoonmaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p id=\"5C7sNB\">With Jake Ferguson entering the final year of his contract and with Brevyn Spann-Ford possibly pushing for the TE2 job, Luke Schoonmaker&#8217;s future with the Cowboys currently stands on shaky ground. While he&#8217;s shown flashes of starting material, he&#8217;s lacked consistency. Because of that, he could need a big 2025 season to stick around. If Ferguson is retained, he remains buried on the depth chart. But, if Ferguson exits in free agency, he could be competing with Spann-Ford and another draft pick for the TE1 job.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"onDf19\" \/>\n<h3 id=\"YQZjRk\"><strong>CB Trevon Diggs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p id=\"PhXAr0\">Unless Trevon Diggs has a huge bounce-back season in 2025 he could be playing elsewhere next season. Injuries and regression over the past couple years could make him a salary-cap casualty after the completion of the 2025 season. The Cowboys can save more than $12.25 million by releasing him in the offseason and carry a dead cap hit of just under $6 million. They could also designate him a post-June 1 release and save $15.5 million and spread the dead cap over the 2026 and 2027 seasons at just under $3 million per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which five Cowboys do you think are facing a critical season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-cowboys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING : 3 Cowboys players facing a make or break season in 2025 - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=26621\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING : 3 Cowboys players facing a make or break season in 2025 - 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