{"id":37937,"date":"2025-11-18T23:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37937"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:33:53","slug":"breaking-cowboys-cut-ties-with-former-17-game-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=37937","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING : Cowboys Cut Ties With Former 17-Game Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2173775824-e1763506277653.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2173775824-e1763506277653.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2173775824-e1763506277653.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2173775824-e1763506277653.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys Cut Ties With Former 17-Game Starter\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys are continuing to shake up their defense in whatever ways they possibly can \u2014 trades, bringing back players from injuries or, now, even cutting lose former starters.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys parted ways with former 17-game starter and inside linebacker Damone Clark on Tuesday, November 18, just one day after a 33-16 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday Night Football in which the defense looked competent for the first time this season, and with Clark out of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Clark was one of 3 players released by the Cowboys on November 18 along with center Wesley French and tight end John Stephens.<\/p>\n<p>Clark was in his fifth season with the Cowboys, who drafted him in the fifth round (No. 176 overall) out of LSU in the 2022 NFL draft. He started 26 games in his time in Dallas, including all 17 regular-season games in 2023, when he had a career high 109 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas head coach Brian Schottenheimer sent Clark away with an encouraging message, which was probably cold comfort for the 25-year-old free agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him your career is just getting started,\u201d Schottenheimer told Joseph Hoyt of The Dallas Morning News. \u201cSometimes change is good. I really believe that. It\u2019s not bull (expletive) \u2026 he means a lot to me and this gives Damone a chance to find a new home.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>LB Additions Market Corrected Clark<\/h2>\n<p>The Cowboys had the 31st ranked defense in the NFL headed into Week 11 and you could make an argument that no position group on the entire roster was worse than inside linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>All of that changed over the last few weeks, which ultimately led to Clark getting his walking papers.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Cowboys traded a 2026 seventh round pick to the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for inside linebacker Logan Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA deal for Dallas: Cowboys are finalizing a trade to acquire Bengals MLB\u00a0Logan Wilson, sources tell me and Todd Archer,\u201d\u00a0ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter\u00a0wrote on his official X account on November 4. \u201cEarlier Monday, Jerry Jones told Stephen A. Smith that the Cowboys have made a trade ahead of Tuesday\u2019s NFL deadline. It is expected to be for Wilson, for whom the Bengals have been seeking a sixth-round pick. Wilson signed four-year $36 million extension in July 2023 that still has two years remaining on it after this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, the Cowboys brought heralded inside linebacker DeMarvion Overshown off of injured reserve ahead of schedule. Overshown, who missed his entire rookie season in 2023 with a torn ACL, had a breakout season in 2024 before tearing his ACL, MCL and PCL in Week 14 against the Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>Overshown wasn\u2019t expected back until a Thanksgiving Day game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Instead he was on the field for the win over the Raiders, making 1 TFL loss in a limited amount of snaps.<\/p>\n<p>With Kenneth Murray Jr., rookie Shemar James and Marist Liufau essentially a 3-headed inside linebacker at the third spot along Overshown and Wilson, the Cowboys now, suddenly, seem like they\u2019re on solid ground.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, don\u2019t be surprised to see James take Murray\u2019s spot as the starter alongside Wilson and Overshown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys have released linebacker and former 17-game starter Damone Clark after several moves at his position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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