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Report: Cowboys expected to make Al Harris assistant head coach

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Most Cowboys fans feel the team has shown up embarrassingly late to the free agency party, watching almost ten players walk out the door while adding just one outsider and re-signing four of their own.

But as it turns out, the club may still be tweaking their 2024 coaching staff.

Defensive backs coach Al Harris is expected to be promoted, with an addition of assistant head coach being tacked on to his current title. That news comes courtesy of NFL insider Josina Anderson of CBS Sports, who cited a source in a Sunday night tweet.

Harris joined the Cowboys staff in 2020, reuniting with Mike McCarthy, who had coached him during his playing days in Green Bay. Harris has been a rising star within the coaching ranks, thanks in large part to blockbuster seasons from cornerbacks Trevon Diggs in 2022 and DaRon Bland in 2023.

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The 49-year-old Harris interviewed for the Cowboys’ defensive coordinator role after the departure of Dan Quinn. Quinn then showed interest in possibly hiring Harris away to join his new staff in Washington, but the Cowboys blocked the Commanders’ interview request, electing instead to retain Harris as part of new DC Mike Zimmer’s staff.

Now it appears that a significant bump in title is coming Harris’s way as a show of what he means to the organization.

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