Last season, the Dallas Cowboys made a trade for Carolina Panthers receiver Jonathan Mingo and parted ways with a fourth-round pick, which Cowboys Nation at the time was scratching their heads at the move.
He started one game in his eight last season and posted just five receptions for 46 yards, but that was with Cooper Rush. Now, he has a chance to play with Dak Prescott, but an injury meant he was on the sidelines for the first part of the season.
And now comes perhaps the most Dallas news possible.
Ahead of the Arizona Cardinals game on Monday night, the Cowboys' inactives list dropped, and Mingo is a healthy scratch. Roughly a year after he was acquired via trade, Mingo has yet to really get a chance.
The Mingo trade was seen as a dart throw to see if the Cowboys could get something out of him, but it is a dart that Dallas, for reasons best known by itself, has yet to throw.
Why? Your guess is as good as mine.
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Mingo another failed Cowboys trade?
Right now, it is hard to call it a "fail" because Mingo hasn't been given a chance to show what he can do with Prescott. The other failed trade was Trey Lance, who it took a lot just to get the quarterback on the field in the regular season last year.
That is two dart throws that the Cowboys seemingly wanted to keep wrapped in cotton wool, and as far as Mingo is concerned, the fact that he is a healthy scratch against the Cardinals speaks volumes either about Mingo as a player in Schottenheimer's system, or the fact that Dallas isn't sold on what he can do on the field.
Either way, the Mingo trade was a dart throw to see if he could bring something to the offense, but here we are, a year later, and that dart is yet to be thrown.
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