The Dallas Cowboys signed veteran offensive lineman Jason Peters to their practice squad Monday.
The move allows Peters, 40, to get into football shape.
Peters visited the Cowboys on Friday and was cleared medically.
The move is insurance should 21-year-old Tyler Smith struggle at left tackle, the position he moved to when Tyron Smith suffered a hamstring injury that will keep him out at least until December. Tyler Smith spent all of training camp competing for the job at left guard.
Peters, with 218 career NFL starts and 228 total games under his belt, could also serve as a mentor for the 2022 first-round pick at a critical position.
“Just trying to set the bar for the up and coming youth,” Peters said Monday, per the Dallas Morning News. “If you love the game and want to keep playing, I’m showing them you can do it. Instead of letting the league run you out I’m a living testimony of you can just keep going. Me and Tom [Brady], we setting the bar.”
Peters started 15 games for the Chicago Bears in 2021 after earning nine Pro Bowl selections in 16 seasons with the Buffalo Bills (2004-08) and Philadelphia Eagles (2009-20).
Undrafted out of Arkansas in 2004, Peters won a ring with the Eagles in Super Bowl LII and was named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 2010s.
Dallas released defensive end Mika Tafua from the practice squad to make room for Peters.
The Cowboys open the season at home Sept. 11 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
–Field Level Media
