News: Mesmerizing speed could force Jon'Vea Johnson onto Cowboys roster

I admire the fact that Jon'Vea Johnson came to town and practiced 3 months in advance beforehand.

That's how good players become great ones. It'd be exciting to have a game changer at our disposal.

From the sound of things, he's also established a good rapport with Sanjay Lal and QB Dak Prescott.
 
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As the article mentions, the WR corps is crowded with potential talent. Making the squad this season will be no walk at the park with 12 WRs competing for 6 spots. With Cooper, Cobb, Gallup, Wilson, Hurns having the inside track to make the team, that doesn't leave much opportunity for the others.
 
It's hard not to overhype prospects, but it feels like there could be a huge overturn at WR from 4-6.

Guys like Austin, Brown and Hurns aren't locks by any means. May have the inside track now, but it feels like they'll have to bring their A game in TC to secure a spot.
 
JoeKing said:
As the article mentions, the WR corps is crowded with potential talent. Making the squad this season will be no walk at the park with 12 WRs competing for 6 spots. With Cooper, Cobb, Gallup, Wilson, Hurns having the inside track to make the team, that doesn't leave much opportunity for the others.
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Cooper, Cobb and Gallup are only locks. Hopefully young speed can fill the rest of the position out.
 
I don't see Hurns making this team. He wouldn't be higher than the 4th WR and his contract is too high for that kind of player. He could be easily replaced by a younger guy with upside and a much smaller contract. It sucks he had that injury last year but apparently he is healthy now and can try and catch on with another team.
 
We can talk all day about young WRs ( other than Cobb, Gallup and Coop ) speed, hands or whatever, but at the end day, the only ones that will make the team will be the ones Dak trust the most. As one young WR recently tweeted his position coach reminded him, all talent in the world means nothing if you don't master where you suppose to be on any given play. Other words focus on the technical and mental game, the rest will come.
 
CowboysRule said:
I don't see Hurns making this team. He wouldn't be higher than the 4th WR and his contract is too high for that kind of player. He could be easily replaced by a younger guy with upside and a much smaller contract. It sucks he had that injury last year but apparently he is healthy now and can try and catch on with another team.
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I agree
Love the kid but too expensive to be a 4th WR
Special teams is gonna be a factor in who makes the bottom of the roster since unless they can help on ST it’s gonna be hard to be active
 
conner01 said:
I agree
Love the kid but too expensive to be a 4th WR
Special teams is gonna be a factor in who makes the bottom of the roster since unless they can help on ST it’s gonna be hard to be active
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Agree but they may try and stash him on IR with a return destination. He could be good value/insurance against regular-season injury to one of top 3 guys.
 
CowboysRule said:
I don't see Hurns making this team. He wouldn't be higher than the 4th WR and his contract is too high for that kind of player. He could be easily replaced by a younger guy with upside and a much smaller contract. It sucks he had that injury last year but apparently he is healthy now and can try and catch on with another team.
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His contract is already accounted for. His salary won’t be the reason why he gets cut. It will be his play on the field.
 
rocyaice said:
His contract is already accounted for. His salary won’t be the reason why he gets cut. It will be his play on the field.
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Actually, this makes sense......I was thinking if they weren't serious about giving him a legit chance, some sort injury settlement would have already been worked out.
 
Bullflop said:
I admire the fact that Jon'Vea Johnson came to town and practiced 3 months in advance beforehand.

That's how good players become great ones. It'd be exciting to have a game changer at our disposal.

From the sound of things, he's also established a good rapport with Sanjay Lal and QB Dak Prescott.
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Real i triqing guy.
Just to clear things up though; he trained 3 months leading up to the draft like almost every other player entering the draft. He happened to train in the Dallas area.
Seems like a good kid though!
 
Well maybe we see him in a ps game. Players like this could make the ps worth watching.
 
The only reason Hurns makes the team is because the coaching staff values him as a locker room presence. Other than that he is not that good. Progress stopper.

I love our top 3 WRs. We can afford to take a chance on a guy like Johnson.
 
CowboysRule said:
What does this mean?
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I'm saying we are fine salary cap wise. At this point in the season.......letting him go for salary cap reasons means nothing. He only has one year left on his deal. As of right now he offers insurance in case Gallup or Cooper or even Cobb gets hurt since he can play all wide out spots.
 
Bullflop said:
I admire the fact that Jon'Vea Johnson came to town and practiced 3 months in advance beforehand.

That's how good players become great ones. It'd be exciting to have a game changer at our disposal.

From the sound of things, he's also established a good rapport with Sanjay Lal and QB Dak Prescott.
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he is an UDFA, has a long learning curve. will be able to use his speed from time to time to run deep routes...being an NFL WR is not easy and outside of some elite ones, its a 3 year journey before it clicks for most......but his ticket needs to be on special teams. he has to play great special teams and maybe run some of the jet sweeps and a few trick plays that Austin runs.....
 
If they keep Austin, Johnson is basically redundant.

There is no need to use two roster spots on two burners that are bottom of the rotation WRs unless they are both clearly two of the best 6 WRs we have.
 
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