Michael Trigg #1 of the Baylor Bears worked out with Cowboys coach Lunda Wells.
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Michael Trigg #1 of the Baylor Bears worked out with Cowboys coach Lunda Wells.
The Dallas Cowboys, to be clear, do not necessarily need a tight end. Of all the spots on the depth chart where the team appears to most have itself covered, tight end is probably at the top of the list. Jake Ferguson remains a top-end starter, coming off a season with 82 catches for 600 yards, and eight touchdowns. He returned to the Pro Bowl after a down 2024, proving the Cowboys wise in giving him a four-year, $52 million deal before last season.
After Ferguson, the Cowboys are still giving some leeway to 2023 second-round pick Luke Schoonmaker, and have underutilized Brevyn Spann-Ford behind him. Dallas re-signed Princeton Fant last week, giving them a solid special teams piece and an emergency tight end for the roster. It’s a pretty full boat in the tight-end room at The Star.
Still, one of the more intriguing prospects at the position in this year’s draft, Baylor’s Michael Trigg, worked out on Sunday at his Pro Day in Waco. And as the Dallas Morning News’ Joseph Hoyt reported, it was notable that Cowboys position coach Lunda Wells was the one putting Trigg through his paces.
Michael Trigg Works His Pro Day With Cowboys’ Lunda Wells
Trigg is not a top-shelf prospect. But he has some remarkable measurements that could cause his stock to nudge upward. As of now, he is considered a fringe Day 2/early Day 3 prospect–which is a sneaky-good spot for the Cowboys to consider him. The Cowboys have two first-rounders in 2026, No. 12 and No. 20, and do not have a second-rounder. But they’ve got No. 92 in the third round and No. 112 in the fourth round.
That’s probably Trigg’s neighborhood. The NFL.com four-round mock draft has Trigg going to the Saints in the fourth round at No. 136 and Pro Football Focus lists Trigg as the No. 106 prospect on its Big Board. PFF has Trigg as the No. 5 tight end in this class.
The Cowboys also have three fifth-round picks that they could use if Trigg slips, or they could package them and trade up.
Coach Lunda Wells of the Cowboys
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Michael Trigg’s ‘Go-Go Gadget Arms’
The measurements that surely caught the eyes of the Cowboys and other NFL teams at Trigg’s pro day were his hand size (10.5 inches) and his arm length (34.25 inches). Trigg brings new meaning to the notion of “catch radius.”
Trigg’s wingspan was even more impressive. Hoyt wrote: “The real standout measurement, however, was the go-go-gadget like wingspan Trigg showed at the combine. He had a longer than 7-foot wingspan. That placed him in the 99th percentile among tight end prospects since 2011.”
Baylor is Trigg’s third school. He began his collegiate career so long ago that his first team was USC in the Pac 12, when that conference still existed. He spent two years at Ole Miss, before finally getting his chance at Baylor, catching 80 passes in the past two seasons.
Cowboys Left Impression
Even if the Cowboys do not wind up looking to the tight end room for an upgrade, Trigg figures to be one to watch. And Wells left an impression on him.
“He’s very funny; a very personable guy,” Trigg said of Wells, via the Morning News. “He pretty much followed me the whole way around, critiquing everything I was doing, but I like stuff like that, so it was pretty good.”