Dez Bryant Says Cowboys Are ‘Rebuilding’ Amid Free Agency Inactivity

The former Dallas wide receiver thinks the team is looking to the future.

The Dallas Cowboys are one of the few teams in the NFL that haven’t made a single signing since free agency negotiations started this week and they’ve faced a gauntlet of criticism. Despite being one of the better teams in the NFL over the past several years and coming off yet another playoff appearance, former Cowboys star wide receiver Dez Bryant thinks Dallas is looking toward the future and not the present. 

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“I love my boys and I’m going to go on record and say it,” he said Tuesday on X ( formerly Twitter). “It’s not enough in this draft to give up what you gave up and expect to win this upcoming year. These past 2-3yrs was the cowboys best chance to play in the big game I think they are rebuilding in my opinion.”

I love my boys and I’m going to go on record and say it

It’s not enough in this draft to give up what you gave up and expect to win this upcoming year

These past 2-3yrs was the cowboys best chance to play in the big game

I think they are rebuilding in my opinion https://t.co/U4GfLs2k4M

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) March 12, 2024

The Cowboys have made it a habit of entering the playoffs with high expectations after a successful regular season only to fall short every single time. Dallas has finished the regular season with a 12–5 record for three straight years but has only advanced past the wild-card round once. The former powerhouse hasn’t appeared in a conference championship game since its Super Bowl run after the ’95 season.  

If Bryant is accurate and Dallas really is looking to rebuild instead of aggressively get better to chase a Super Bowl in 2025, NFL fans would surely never let the franchise live down wasting all the talent it already has on its roster.