Cowboys Add a Running Back: Former Saint Kendre Miller Is Signing in Frisco as Tyler Goodson Misses Weeks
Dallas made no trade on deadline day, but it did make the one move Jerry Jones promised on Tuesday morning: former Saints running back Kendre Miller — a TCU product coming home to the Metroplex — is signing with the Cowboys, according to a Tuesday-evening report, with Tyler Goodson set to miss several weeks on a knee injury.
FRISCO — The Cowboys' deadline day ended the way their owner said it would on Tuesday morning: no trade, one signing. Dallas is signing former New Orleans Saints running back Kendre Miller, NFL insider Jordan Schultz reported Tuesday, in a move EssentiallySports detailed in full. Miller visited the Cowboys' facility on November 10 after the Saints released him the previous week. The club had not announced the signing in any source read overnight, and this desk carries it as reported until it does.
The need was a headcount problem. Tyler Goodson hurt his knee in the second quarter of Sunday's 27–23 win at Indianapolis — he returned after halftime, but head coach Brian Schottenheimer said Monday he will miss multiple weeks, and the expectation reported Tuesday is several weeks. That left starter Javonte Williams and Hunter Luepke as the only running backs on the active roster, with Israel Abanikanda and Jashaun Corbin on the practice squad. Jones, on his weekly 105.3 The Fan appearance, said the addition would likely come through free agency rather than a trade — and, for once on a deadline day in Frisco, the quiet version was the true one.
Miller arrives with a modest 2026 line and a familiar address. In six games for New Orleans this season he carried 57 times for 159 yards and two touchdowns, caught nine of 13 targets for 37 yards, and totaled 196 yards from scrimmage with two fumbles. He is also a homecoming: Miller played his college football at TCU, in Fort Worth, before the Saints drafted him — a Metroplex return that costs Dallas nothing in draft capital at the position where it could least afford a thin room.
The week's other roster move ran the opposite direction: Dallas released cornerback Reddy Steward from the practice squad on Tuesday. Steward had been elevated three times this season, started two games and recorded 11 tackles. The Cowboys (4–5) host the San Francisco 49ers (7–1) on Sunday at AT&T Stadium (3:25 p.m. CT, FOX), with one designated-to-return slot left for the regular season and a running-back room that, as of Tuesday night, has a new name in it.
