The NFL combine kicks off in a bit over a week and will give interested football fans a good chance to watch some of the top prospects in the 2026 NFL draft work out. And the names that have already dominated the headlines and comments here on BTB will dominate the coverage from the combine. But when some of the lesser-known names take the stage, you’ll be wondering who to keep an eye on.
Every year, in addition to 30 usually high-profile national draft-eligible players the [Cowboys](http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/dallas-cowboys) bring in for pre-draft visits, they also bring in roughly 50 draft-eligible local prospects who are usually less well known.
These visits by local prospects usually happen in early to mid April and are known as “Dallas Days”. A player is considered a local prospect if he went to high school or college in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area, he was born there or his parents live there. That DFW area is defined as stretching from Sanctuary in the West to Princeton in the East, and from Prosper in the North to Glenn Heights in the South. TCU, SMU, and North Texas are the three colleges in the area from which the Cowboys are allowed to invite prospects.
Here’s a map detailing the boundaries of the area from which prospects qualify for Dallas Day.
These “Dallas Days” have delivered their share of Cowboys players in the past, with the likes of Patrick Crayton, Bryan McCann, Lance Dunbar, Cole Beasley, Terrance Williams and more recently Connor Williams and DeMarvion Overshown all visiting the Cowboys during Dallas Day.
We don’t yet know which local prospects the Cowboys will invite this year, but we do know which [319 players are invited to the combine this year.](https://www.nfl.com/combine/tracker/participants/) And we also have a pretty good idea about which combine invitees would qualify as local prospects for the Cowboys. Here are the 21 local players we know of who’ll be attending the combine this year.
**PFF rank**
**Player Name**
**Position**
**College**
**Hometown**
14
Jordyn Tyson
WR
Arizona State
Allen, TX
40
Anthony Hill Jr.
LB
Texas
Denton, TX
45
Eli Stowers
TE
Vanderbilt
Denton, TX
99
Seth McGowan
RB
Kentucky
Mesquite, TX
111
Malik Muhammad
CB
Texas
Dallas, TX
115
Bud Clark
SAF
TCU
Alexandria, LA
147
Eric McAlister
WR
TCU
Azle, TX
164
Ar'maj Reed-Adams
G
Texas A&M
DeSoto, TX
212
J. Michael Sturdivant
WR
Florida
Highland Village, TX
234
Taylen Green
QB
Arkansas
Lewisville, TX
271
RJ Maryland
TE
SMU
Southlake, TX
318
Ahmaad Moses
SAF
SMU
Arlington, TX
353
Matthew Hibner
TE
SMU
Burke, VA
366
Kaleb Elarms-Orr
LB
TCU
Hayward, CA
368
Charles Demmings
CB
Stephen F. Austin
Mesquite, TX
405
Namdi Obiazor
LB
TCU
Eden Prairie, MN
\--
DJ Campbell
G
Texas
Arlington, TX
\--
Jordan Hudson
WR
SMU
Garland, TX
\--
Louis Moore
SAF
Indiana
Mesquite, TX
\--
Febechi Nwaiwu
G
Oklahoma
Coppell, TX
\--
DJ Rogers
TE
TCU
Little Rock, AR
The players are arranged according to how they rank on the PFF big board. The 21 names listed here are all I was able to find, but there may be others who are eligible for Dallas Day. In principle, the Cowboys could invite any of these players to Dallas Day and save a spot on their national invite list for another prospect.
While some of the names on the list will be familiar to Cowboys fans, others will have even hardcore draftniks scrambling for their draft manuals. But with this list in hand, you’ll know who to root for once the lesser known names take the stage at the combine - you never know, one of them might end up a Cowboy.
For those more in tune with the local football talent in the DFW-area, do any of these players stand out to you?
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