BREAKING: Cowboys make SNEAKY Signing... MAJOR Injury updates | Dallas Cowboys news

We have some breaking news. The Dallas Cowboys have just made a sneaky signing. And of course, we have some major injury updates alongside that. Now, they're reportedly making a signing that almost nobody has noticed. And it tells you exactly how thin things have gotten in the running back room. Two days after Tyler Goodson hurt his knee and is now expected to miss some time, a running back the Saints cut loose is now reportedly on his way to Dallas. So who is he? Why did Dallas want him? And does he change things on Sunday? Well, it was Sunday in Indianapolis when Tyler Goodson was having really the best game of his Cowboys career. He had 12 runs for 77 yards, a career high in the 27-23 win over the Colts. Now, Javante Williams was also having a great game, 101 yards on 20 carries and a one-yard touchdown late in the fourth. But then the knee. Goodson went down in just the second quarter after seven carries for 44 yards, came back, and then finished the game. Schottenheimer said Monday that Goodson will miss multiple weeks and an ESPN source says ACL and MCL sprains, not tears though. Now that matters because Goodson was the guy behind Williams and behind him, there's almost nobody. To see why this backfield matters, look at what the Cowboys have been doing on the ground the last three weeks. At Philadelphia, they won at 38-21. Williams had a career high 155 yards on 25 carries and a touchdown. Then they lost to the Cardinals 33-30 in overtime, and the game was tied 30-30 at the end of regulation. In Indianapolis, a 27-23 win, 179 combined rushing yards, and 508 total yards of offense. That's what makes Goodson's knee a bigger deal than normal backups injury. Dallas is winning by running the ball, and he was the second option in that plan. Williams is the engine. Since he joined Dallas last year in 2025, he has 20 rushing touchdowns. Only he and Ezekiel Elliott have reached 20 rushing touchdowns in their first 25 games with the Cowboys. And he also has a rushing touchdown in seven straight road games, tied with Tony Dorsett in 1977 and 1978 for the longest such streak in team history. So the question isn't whether Williams is good. It's what happens to him if there's nobody to take a breath behind him. Here's the context. Since 1999, the Cowboys have had 16 games with 150 or more rushing yards by one player. Williams, 155 against the Eagles, is 10th on that list. And his 1,201 rushing yards last season was 7th among the Cowboys' 32 seasons with at least 600 rushing yards since 1999. So Dallas isn't a team that just happened to run well. It built an identity around him, and now the guy behind him is out. And the market maybe is showing that because on Kalshi, the Cowboys are at 34% to beat the 49ers this Sunday. Now Kalshi is today's sponsor and on Kalshi you are trading directly against other users, not the house like a traditional sports book. You're buying yes or no contracts in the outcome of events, sports, and. So here's the room as it stands. Williams, who has 629 rushing yards in the regular season, Goodson has 163, and the third back on that depth chart, Hunter Lipke, who's truthfully a fullback, he has 16 yards. After Williams, the only other running back on the active roster is a fullback. Now, they do have guys on the practice squad, Israel Abukanda and Jayshon Corbin. Now, quickly, if you want more Cowboys news this fast right in front of you, hit the like button and help us beat our best likes this month, which currently sits at 324. And Jerry Jones saw it. On Tuesday, he said he anticipated adding a running back from the free agent market today. And it wasn't a trade, obviously. That's gone and passed. It was a free agent. So who's the name and who'd they sign? Well, first, what exactly is Dallas losing in the need to sign? Well, Goodson has 163 rushing yards in seven games with the Cowboys this season. 4.1 yards to carry, and he became the clear RB2 over the past couple weeks behind Williams. It wasn't a star turn. It was steady, reliable work, and it let Javante rest a little bit. Now you compare that with the 2.8 yards of carry that Miller had in New Orleans, Keiondre Miller that is, a little bit of a difference. Now the gap is the whole story. Keiondre Miller is replacing the role of Tyler Goodson in a way, but he's not going to replace the production. And Goodson isn't the only cowboy who got bad news. Tight end Jake Ferguson also had a knee injury, and Schottenheimer said both he and Goodson will miss multiple weeks. Before the Colts game, the official report listed Turpin out with ribs, Lawrence out with an ankle, and Pickens questionable with a hamstring. Obviously, Goodson wasn't on that list. That knee injury happened inside the game. And Schottenheimer said afterwards, a lot of these guys, they play on adrenaline. And this is a guy who has been on an incredible run over the last two weeks. But let's go to the signing. Keiondre Miller, a third-round pick from the Saints in 2023, 71st overall out of Texas Christian University right here in Fort Worth. This season in New Orleans, he had 57 carries for 159 yards in six games. It's 2.8 yards a carry with two touchdowns and two fumbles. The Saints waived him last Saturday, and Kellen Moore called it purely a numbers decision in terms of how the position had developed. Now, he went through waivers, and nobody ended up claiming him. Now, Haver reported that he became the odd man out after Travis A. Chan returned from injury. And outside that 20-carry game at the Giants, he had only 46 touches in the other five. So a team that wins by running the ball just added a back the Saints stopped using. So what is Dallas getting? Well, it's a 6-foot, 220-pound back who carried it 20 times against the Giants in week number six, and that, of course, being his biggest game. He also is a back who tore his ACL in 2025, so he knows exactly what the road looks like for any injury. What he adds is a body with NFL carries. What he doesn't add is an upgrade on Goodson. But Miller wasn't always a waiver name. Remember, he was a third-round pick. And at TCU in 2022, he ran for 1,399 yards and 17 touchdowns, which is what got him picked 71st overall by the Saints in 2023. Then, of course, the injuries came towards ACL in Week 7 of 2025 and played just seven games that season for 193 yards and one touchdown. So this is a back that has real draft pedigree who hasn't been able to be healthy or consistent since. It's a gamble, but it's a cheap one. Now, of course, this was deadline day, and Jerry Jones, he didn't promise anything big. In fact, he told 105.3 The Fan, don't count it out, a lot of things can happen on the last day, but I don't look for us to make a significant trade today, and obviously, they didn't. And then he said he anticipated adding a running back from free agency. It's a very Cowboys way to handle a problem, not a splash, just an extra body in the building here. Now the part that matters most is going to be this Sunday when the 49ers come to town as they'll take on the Dallas Cowboys at 425 p.m. Eastern time at AT&T Stadium with, of course, some new names for the 49ers, including making a trade today for Keenan Allen. Now on cash, the market has San Francisco at 66% and Dallas at 34%. That's a market telling you the Cowboys are underdogs at home, and that's before Goodson was officially out. If Dallas wants to keep the ground game going, it can't just be Williams. Somebody has to take the other 10 to 12 carries, which is what Goodson had, 12 carries against the Colts. That's a real workload, and Miller or someone else is going to have to absorb it. So here's what I'm watching between now and Sunday. First, whether Miller is going to be elevated, I mean, he's a practice squad signing, or whether it's going to be a move for Israel Abakananda, or if they're going to put up maybe even Jay Sean Corbin. The second will be who handles the third down and passing situations. Miller had nine catches for 37 yards in New Orleans, so he's not a pass catching back. Third is whether Dallas leans on Williams the way it did in Philadelphia when he carried it 25 times. Because the Cowboys have gone 2-1 in the last three games with a 17-point win in Philadelphia, a three-point overtime loss they should have won, and then a 4.1 in Indianapolis. That is a team that is one play either way from a very different record, which is why every carry matters right now. And it's why a quiet practice squad signing on a Tuesday deserves more attention than what it's getting. Now, if Williams stays healthy, Dallas is going to be fine. If he doesn't, the signings stop becoming a footnote for everybody. Of course, that's obviously the catch. He has a practice squad deal, not a spot on the 53-man roster, so no contract terms have been revealed just yet. It's cheap insurance. A practice squad player can be elevated for a game. So Dallas can add a back for a game without burning a roster spot, and they've got three in the practice squad now. Williams had 629 rushing yards this season. Miller had 159 with the Saints, and Sunday is the 49ers at home, 4:25 Eastern. So Williams is about to get every carry he can handle. Miller isn't the headline. Goodson's knee probably is. The move is telling you that Dallas, it doesn't trust the room behind Williams and they don't feel that Israel Abukana Dyer or Jayshon Corbin is enough. So let me know, will Keandre Miller get a carry on Sunday versus the 49ers back in his college state? Yes or no, comment it down below. And for now, guys, we'll keep you updated with every move the Cowboys make. Peace out.