Cowboys acquire Dee Winters in trade with 49ers

FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys entered Day 2 of the 2026 NFL Draft with out a second-round decide, however they weren’t keen to sit down round and wait to go onto the clock with the 92nd-overall decide in the third spherical, so that they struck a trade with the San Francisco 49ers to acquire linebacker Dee Winters.

Winters helps the Cowboys examine off the field at linebacker, one thing they have been attempting to do for the reason that begin of free company, and marks the second trade with the 49ers in solely a matter of weeks — the primary being to ship defensive deal with Osa Odighizuwa to Santa Clara in alternate for the aforementioned third-round decide.

The 49ers obtained the 152nd-overall decide (Fifth-round in 2026) in alternate for Winters.

Winters, 25, is a former sixth-round decide of the 49ers in 2023, incomes the nod after being named a First-team All-Big 12 expertise for TCU in 2022. Playing at TCU for everything of his collegiate profession gave the Cowboys additional entry to scouting him all through and in the pre-draft course of, and the trade brings Winters residence — a Brenham, Texas native who attended Burton High School in South Texas.

He joins one other Texas native, DeMarvion Overshown, alongside with Shemar James in attempting to reverse the course of the LB room in 2026, with Christian Parker on the helm as defensive coordinator and Scott Symons teaching up the linebackers immediately as their place coach.