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Cowboys Trade Future Picks for Maxx Crosby, Host Rio Game

7/29/2026

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Cowboys Trade Picks

Jerry Jones said the Cowboys will give up future draft picks to acquire defensive end Maxx Crosby.
He added the team did not walk away, understood Crosby’s injury, and discussed a substantive deal with another NFL owner on Monday.
After a 2025 defense that allowed 30.1 points per game, Dallas drafted safety Caleb Downs, added Malachi Lawrence, Rashan Gary and Dee Winters, and will mortgage future picks for defensive talent.

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Cowboys Brazil Game

Dallas will host a week-3 game against the Baltimore Ravens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the NFL’s first regular-season contest there.
The franchise’s championship drought now spans 30 years, since its Super Bowl XXX win after the 1995 season.
Defensive coordinator Christian Parker, hired from the Philadelphia Eagles, leads a staff in which nine of eleven defensive coaches were replaced.

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Historical Context

The NFL’s first regular-season game abroad on October 2 2005, when the Arizona Cardinals beat the San Francisco 49ers before 103,467 fans at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, marked the league’s shift from preseason American Bowls to a global schedule. Commissioner Roger Goodell later institutionalized yearly International Series games, a model echoed today as the Cowboys trade for Maxx Crosby and schedule a week-3 game in Rio.

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Cowboys Trade Picks

Jerry Jones said the Cowboys will give up future draft picks to acquire defensive end Maxx Crosby.
He added the team did not walk away, understood Crosby’s injury, and discussed a substantive deal with another NFL owner on Monday.
After a 2025 defense that allowed 30.1 points per game, Dallas drafted safety Caleb Downs, added Malachi Lawrence, Rashan Gary and Dee Winters, and will mortgage future picks for defensive talent.

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