FRISCO, Texas – The Cowboys acquired vast receiver Jonathan Mingo by way of a commerce with the Carolina Panthers. Dallas is sending a 2025 fourth-round choose to Carolina for Mingo and a 2025 seventh-round choose.
The corresponding transfer is a launch of cornerback Andrew Sales space, who was acquired by way of commerce throughout this 12 months’s coaching camp in Oxnard.
Mingo was the 39th general choose within the 2023 NFL draft, and in 24 profession video games has caught 55 passes for 539 yards and has but to attain his first profession landing. The 6’2, 220 pound wideout offers the Cowboys a giant goal that also has two years remaining on his rookie contract after the 2024 season, and Mingo will get a contemporary begin to his profession in Dallas.
Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones talked about on his weekly 105.3 The Fan radio present this morning that the Cowboys would possible be buying a large receiver that they preferred popping out of school. Now, they have him.
“We will convey a receiver in additional than possible immediately that we actually have thought plenty of and wished to draft him,” Jones stated. “And so we’ll get an opportunity to get him.”
Mingo performed 4 seasons at Ole Miss, the place he caught 112 passes for 1,758 yards and 12 touchdowns, and acquired 2nd-team All-SEC honors in his senior season. On the mix in Indianapolis, Mingo ran a 4.46 second 40-yard sprint, tallied a 39.5″ vertical, and a ten’ 9″ broad bounce.
That is the second time in as a few years the Cowboys have traded a fourth-round choose for a younger, developmental addition to the roster as their fourth spherical choose final season went to San Francisco in alternate for Trey Lance. Lance has but to see the sector within the common season for the Cowboys, however that will change within the close to future with Dak Prescott possible headed to injured reserve, per Jones.
Jones made it very clear that the Cowboys are nonetheless wanting to construct this roster to win in 2024, echoing the sentiment after the loss to Atlanta on Sunday and once more this morning on 105.3 The Fan.
“We’re not promoting,” Jones stated. “We are going to make that case the place we’re shopping for and never promoting.”
The NFL’s commerce deadline is at 3 P.M. (CT) immediately.
