When guard Ronald Leary signed his restricted free agent tender with the Cowboys this week, we noted that having a contract in place meant the Cowboys could trade Leary during the draft.
Given Leary’s experience as a starter in Dallas before La’el Collins moved past him on the depth chart, it seemed like a realistic possibility that a team or teams would be in contact with the Cowboys. Executive vice president Stephen Jones said that was the case on Thursday night.
“We’ve had calls on him, yeah,” Jones said, via the team’s website. “If we needed to do something today, we could have.”
Jones said that Leary would “obviously” like to go somewhere that offers him a chance at a starting job, something that doesn’t exist in Dallas with Collins and Zach Martin locked into the first team, and that the Cowboys are open to making a move “if we got what we thought was fair” in return.