Malik Hooker and Damontae Kazee won’t be the only two safeties visiting the Cowboys. ESPN’s Todd Archer reports (via Twitter) that Dallas will also be hosting defensive back Jayron Kearse. Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News tweets that the auditions will take place tomorrow.
The 2016 seventh-round pick had spent the first four seasons of his career with the Vikings, missing only a pair of regular season games over that span. He ultimately started five of his 62 games for the organization, compiling 79 tackles, 0.5 sacks, eight passes defended, and one interception.
Kearse signed a one-year, $2.75MM deal with the Lions last offseason. He was later suspended for the first three games of the 2020 campaign for violating the substance-abuse policy, and he ultimately saw time in 11 games (seven starts) for his new squad, compiling a career-high 59 tackles. He was waived by the Lions late in the season and spent the rest of the season on the Ravens practice squad.
Now, the 27-year-old will have an opportunity to catch on with the Cowboys. Watkins notes that the Cowboys interest in Kearse, Hooker, and Kazee (along with the signing of Keanu Neal) doesn’t mean the team is done with Donovan Wilson, who started 10 games for the Cowboys last season. Rather, the team’s just looking to improve their defensive backs corps.
He was in a car with a stolen hand gun back in his MN days here…..should work well in the big D. Can’t remember if he was the driver…………..but they flew off a closed freeway into a construction zone at about 3 am.
Yes, he was the driver, and yes, he failed the field sobriety test, but I don’t know where you got the “flew off of closed freeway into a construction zone” bit. He drove around a barricade onto a closed portion of a highway, he didn’t fly off of it.
There have been questions about his maturity since he was accused of not giving much effort on the field his last (junior) year at Clemson. He seemed to have developed to the point where he could challenge for a starting job after his first three years with Minnesota, somewhere else if not there, but all he could get was a one-year prove-it deal with Detroit, and for some reason he couldn’t finish out the season. Don’t know if he left not wanting to be back like he tweeted he didn’t want to return to the Vikings.