Dallas Cowboys Cut Blake Jarwin as He Fights Back from Hip Surgery

STILLWATER – Popular, but often injured, former Oklahoma State Cowboys and NFL free agent success story Blake Jarwin has been released by the Dallas Cowboys. Jarwin revealed a little over a week ago that he had surgery for an uncommon hip injury and the medical reports were that it would be a hard injury to come back from. Jarwin told Pokes Report that he was doing well and was confident that he would be back, but speculation was he would not be ready for the start of training camp and the beginning of the 2022 season with Dallas. The Cowboys as the league calendar starts waived Jarwin to create cap room.

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Dallas can save close to $3.8 million in cap space while carrying a charge of only $2 million for Jarwin’s contract. Jarwin qualifies for an injury settlement with the team, which will allow him to recoup some of his earnings. His second NFL contract signed two years ago was worth $22-million and $9.5-million of it was guaranteed. However, since that second contract which made Jarwin the apparent successor as the team’s premier tight end to Jason Whitten he has been often injured.

Jarwin tore his ACL in the season opener of 2020 in Los Angeles playing in the Rams new SoFi Stadium. He was done for the season in week one.

He was back in time for training camp for the 2021 season and played in the first seven games this past season with 10 receptions for 90-yards and a touchdown. In the eighth game against Minnesota he was nailed on a play and suffered the hip injury. The Cowboys put him on injured reserve on Oct. 31.

Injuries, unfortunately, got in the way. Jarwin tore his ACL just two quarters into the 2020 season, going down for the year in the first half of a Week 1 loss to the L.A. Rams – a harbinger of what was to come in an injury-ravaged season for the Cowboys.

Jarwin returned for the last game of the regular season and the playoff loss to San Francisco, but that hip injury is what sent him to surgery and now has him facing an uphill climb to get back to playing status.

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Jarwin witch a catch versus the New York Giants. 

The former Oklahoma State Cowboy and two-time All Big 12 player at Oklahoma State, Jarwin was undrafted in 2017, but signed immediately after the draft concluded by Dallas. The Cowboys saw something with him and kept him on the practice squad before putting him on the active roster to keep the Philadelphia Eagles from claiming him. For his NFL career, Jarwin played in 43 games and caught 70 passes for 780 yards and eight touchdowns.

Jarwin became known as a “Giants killer” as he had 11 receptions for 200-yards and five touchdowns all against New York.