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The Dallas Cowboys continue to address their defensive line on Wednesday. According to Josina Anderson, the club has agreed to terms with free agent DT Linval Joseph.
Joseph, 35, is a 6-foot-4, 329-pound nose tackle who is signing on for his 15th NFL season. An original second-round pick of the New York Giants in 2010, Joseph has played for five different clubs before this and spend last season playing seven games for the Buffalo Bills.
He has 676 career tackles and 26.5 career sacks as a run-stuffing one-technique. Joseph spent six seasons with Mike Zimmer in Minnesota, where he made two Pro Bowls (2016, 2017). He will rotate with second-year player Mazi Smith as the Cowboys continue to look to transform their run defense to improve a weakness from last season.
Joseph will look to quickly ramp up with the club now that training camp is over and preparation for the regular season opener will begin in earnest following the final preseason game of the season.
The Cowboys will travel back from Oxnard, CA and host the Los Angeles Chargers – a team Joseph played two seasons for – on Saturday to close out the exhibition schedule.
Dallas is 1-1 so far in the preseason, losing to the Los Angeles Rams on a last-second touchdown drive, 13-12, and taking down the Las Vegas Raiders, 27-12 this past Saturday.
The club has been on the west coast since the end of July and had a fire break out on the next-to-last day, requiring multiple players to be relocated and putting.a weird bow on the team’s summer.