Jason Peters undergoing physicals with Cowboys, to sit down with Jerry Jones
There may be a significant bit of business happening Friday at The Star in Frisco to close out out a very busy work week for the Cowboys.
Free agent tackle Jason Peters, the All-Pro who spent most of his NFL career as a rival with the Philadelphia Eagles, is in the building. According to team owner Jerry Jones, Peters is in the process of interviews and medical checks that could culminate in the Cowboys signing the 40-year-old Texas native to a contract to provide valuable depth to the club’s dangerously thin offensive line.
“He’s here getting physicals,” Jones confirmed late Friday morning on a radio call-in with 105.3 The Fan. “I’ll meet with him in just a few minutes. We’ll sit down and see how he’s doing, how his physicals have been, and go from there.”
Undrafted coming out of Arkansas in 2004 as a tight end, Peters was first signed by the Buffalo Bills and converted to the offensive line. By 2007, he had earned the first of an eventual nine Pro Bowl nods at left tackle.
He won a Super Bowl with the Eagles over 12 seasons in Philadelphia, but spent 2021 with Chicago, starting 15 games for the Bears on a one-year deal.
Even after turning 40 in January, the 328-pound Arkansas alum still has plenty of skills left and would provide more than just veteran locker room leadership to a Cowboys O-line very much in flux after the injury to left tackle Tyron Smith late in training camp.
The club is optimistic that Smith will be able to return from a hamstring tear and avulsion fracture of the knee, but it likely would not be until December at the earliest. Tulsa rookie Tyler Smith was the Cowboys’ first-round draft pick in April and slated to be the left tackle of the future, but he spent all of camp working at left guard.
If he suits up this season, Peters will be the league’s second-oldest player, behind 45-year-old Tom Brady.
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