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Dallas Cowboys sign The Belldozer

Super Bowl champ inks new deal with America's Team

John E. Hoover

Blake Bell won a Super Bowl in Kansas City. Now he hopes he’s found a home in Dallas.

Bell, the popular former Oklahoma quarterback who became the Belldozer and then moved to tight end, signed a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys on Wednesday, the team announced.

The 6-foot-6, 252-pound Bell has played with four NFL teams in his short career so far and was famously on the field as a blocker for three of the Chiefs’ first four touchdowns in Super Bowl 54.

The former 5-start quarterback at Bishop Carroll High School in Wichita caught eight passes for 67 yards in the 2019 regular season, in which he made seven starts, then added his first career touchdown in the Chiefs’ playoff victory over the Houston Texans, and caught 9-yard catch against the 49ers in the Super Bowl. 

In his five-year career, Bell has 38 receptions for 424 yards.

Dallas recently signed former Oklahoma State tight end Blake Jarwin to a four-year, $24 million extension after all-time receptions leader Jason Witten left in free agency for the Las Vegas Raiders.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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