Cowboys trade 2nd DT in an hour, send former 1st-round pick to Titans
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The Dallas Cowboys have been busy creating salary cap space to make room for their new additions. The team was compliant with the $301.2 million league-wide salary cap at the start of the new league year earlier in the day, but they weren't able to complete all of their previously announced agreements with free agents.
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More space was created when the Cowboys sent DT Osa Odighizuwa to the San Francisco 49ers, but they continued to create more and from the same position group. Dallas also traded Solomon Thomas, the No. 3 overall pick from the 2017 draft, sending him to reunite with DL coach Aaron Whitecotton in Tennessee.
Another trade: Dallas is sending DL Solomon Thomas and a 7th-round pick to the Titans in exchange for another 7th-round pick.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 11, 2026
Picks 218 and 225.
The move is basically a salary dump, with the club clearly prepared to release Thomas rather than keep him. Instead, the team moves up seven spots in the seventh round, going from No. 225 to No. 218.
Thomas was set to count $3.22 million against the cap, with $2.5 million in salary and bonuses. The latter number goes with him to Tennessee and counts as cap savings for the Cowboys, with $750,000 left in dead money.
Dallas signed Thomas to a two-year deal last year under one-year DC Matt Eberflus, with Whitecotton coaching the defensive line. Whitecotton interviewed for the DC gig, but lost out to Parker, and then was allowed to go join Robert Saleh, his former head coach with the Jets who is now the HC for the Titans.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Cowboys trade DT Thomas to Titans for cap relief, lowly 1.6 TVC points