Plus, an emerging rookie and another offensive lineman injury?
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb makes an over the shoulder catch as he’s defended by cornerback DaRon Bland during a training camp practice in Oxnard, California, July 31, 2025.isn’t a fan of seven-on-seven drills.
Personal experience taught him that long before he became the head coach of He admitted that he wasn’t the best college quarterback — a claim that his 38 career passes would back up. But when it came to seven-on-seven? That he excelled in. “It’s such an easy drill,” Schottenheimer said. “You’re like, ‘Oh, he’s open, he’s open, nobody’s open, but nobody’s rushing.’ It’s just not realistic. It’s not the way the game is played.” Which is why Schottenheimer would rather stick to team drills when it comes to practice. He’s backed that up in the first seven team practices. On Thursday, for the eighth practice, he unveiled a new wrinkle. Because as much as he dislikes non-team drills, he loves competition, and one-on-ones supply plenty of it.Not only did the Cowboys do one-on-ones on Thursday, but they scripted the matchups specifically so they could see how each player responds to being matched up with another. Down with the lineman, rookie Tyler Booker got matched up with veteran defensive lineman Solomon Thomas, while rookie edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku took on veteran Terence Steele. Elsewhere,took on DaRon Bland in a battle of the team’s best receiver vs. the team’s best available corner.The receivers, for the most part, did well against the corners. Jonathan Mingo, acquired from the Panthers last year for a fourth-round pick, was a standout. He had a deep contested catch so good that he celebrated by picking the football up and throwing it left-handed over 50 yards in the other direction. Prescott said he didn’t know Mingo could throw like that. One thing he did know, however, was Mingo’s strength at the point of the catch. Prescott was very complimentary after practice of the work Mingo has done to get to this point.Another standout in one-on-ones was corner Isreal Mukuamu, who had a pass breakup in coverage of Jalen Tolbert and forced rookie Traeshon Holden out of bounds on a catch — even if the offensive side didn’t agree with the call.“We want to see certain guys against certain guys,” Schottenheimer said. “Why? Because there’s going to be a winner and a loser.”That meant that Brock Hoffman, as he did last season, had to step into a starting guard spot. This time on the left side. He also had to miss at least one play after he got into a scuffle with a Cowboys defender. That meant that T.J. Bass had to slide in and play with the starters next to left tackle Nate Thomas, who is in place of Tyler Guyton. One good injury note: Terence Steele said that his ankle is fine after he missed a couple of practices earlier in camp with a sprain.Cowboys defensive lineman Jay Toia, a seventh-round pick out of UCLA, is making a strong impression early. So much so that he’s started working with the starting defense extensively. Schottenheimer talked about the pad level Toia has displayed early on and the difficulty he’s provided center Cooper Beebe with his strength.With Toia moving up, that means there’s been less snaps with the starters for former first-round pick Mazi Smith, who played often with the second team defense on Thursday. The Cowboys want to have a rotation on the defensive line. Right now, it looks like Toia is playing himself into a bigger chunk of it.I thought Thursday was the best day for both of the Cowboys’ quarterbacks. Dak Prescott had multiple red zone touchdown connections with George Pickens. Joe Milton threw three touchdown passes in the same period in the back of the end zone: two to Jalen Cropper and one to undrafted rookie Traeshon Holden, who has had back-to-back good practices. Perhaps the best thing we saw from Prescott: the race he had with CeeDee Lamb. Prescott said on Thursday that he wants to run more now so that he doesn’t have to worry about starting to run in the middle of the season, as he did last season.Cowboys corner Trevon Diggs has been doing more and more rehabilitation work as training camp has gone on. On Thursday, he caught a pass on the field away from team drills and took off down the sideline before he fell down in the end zone. He took off his helmet and left the field before returning in non-workout clothes.Miles Sanders missed practice with a knee bruise. It took a while, but rookie Jaydon Blue received snaps with the starting offense for the second straight practice. Early on, it was mostly Javonte Williams and Hunter Luepke playing running back with the first team. It was Heroes Appreciation Day at practice. The Cowboys shook the hands of military personnel and first responders who lined up on the sideline after practice.Trey Lance tosses 2 TD passes, leading the Chargers over the Lions in Hall of Fame gameJoseph covers the Dallas Cowboys for The Dallas Morning News. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 2016, Joseph interned at The News before working for The Ames Tribune and KOIN-TV in Portland. He returned to The News in Nov. 2018 and spent five years here before he left to cover the Cowboys for Lone Star Live and DLLS Sports.
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