The Dallas Cowboys made a couple of big moves at the NFL trade deadline, acquiring linebacker Logan Wilson from the Cincinnati Bengals and snatching defensive tackle Quinnen Williams from the New York Jets.
The Williams acquisition was definitely the bigger of the two, but it created somewhat of a logjam along the interior of the Cowboys’ defensive line.
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Now, Dallas has Williams, Kenny Clark and Osa Odighizuwa up the middle, which means that one of them will ultimately be short on playing time for the rest of 2025 and heading into 2026.
Is it possible the Cowboys could open things up with another trade?
Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon thinks so, suggesting that Dallas moves Odighizuwa during the offseason.
“It remains to be seen how the Cowboys will utilize Odighizuwa alongside Quinnen Williams as well as preseason acquisition Kenny Clark, but the fact is they could be positioned to leverage that newfound interior depth to improve elsewhere this offseason,” Gagnon wrote. “You’d think they’d be more likely to move on from Odighizuwa, whose play has dropped off in 2025.”
Odighizuwa had been one of the most underrated defensive tackles in football over the first four years of his career, and it led to the former third-round pick bagging a four-year, $80 million contract with the Cowboys this past offseason.
However, Odighizuwa’s production has fallen off considerably in 2025. He has managed 25 tackles and one sack through nine games while posting a 60.4 overall grade at Pro Football Focus, his lowest mark since his rookie campaign.
The UCLA product is still just 27 years old, though, so he would definitely have some value on the trade market, although his fat contract coupled with his dip in productivity could make him rather difficult to move.
Odighizuwa is played in 61 percent of Dallas’ defensive snaps in 2025, and while that is still the second-most of his career, it is down quite a bit from the 78 percent he tallied last season.
We’ll see if the Cowboys ultimately decide to make a move at defensive tackle during the offseason.
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