The NFL combine kicks off in a bit over a week and will give interested football fans a good chance to watch some of the top prospects in the 2026 NFL draft work out. And the names that have already dominated the headlines and comments here on BTB will dominate the coverage from the combine. But when some of the lesser-known names take the stage, you’ll be wondering who to keep an eye on.
Not anymore.
Every year, in addition to 30 usually high-profile national draft-eligible players the Cowboys bring in for pre-draft visits, they also bring in roughly 50 draft-eligible local prospects who are usually less well known.
These visits by local prospects usually happen in early to mid April and are known as “Dallas Days”. A player is considered a local prospect if he went to high school or college in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area, he was born there or his parents live there. That DFW area is defined as stretching from Sanctuary in the West to Princeton in the East, and from Prosper in the North to Glenn Heights in the South. TCU, SMU, and North Texas are the three colleges in the area from which the Cowboys are allowed to invite prospects.
Here’s a map detailing the boundaries of the area from which prospects qualify for Dallas Day.
These “Dallas Days” have delivered their share of Cowboys players in the past, with the likes of Patrick Crayton, Bryan McCann, Lance Dunbar, Cole Beasley, Terrance Williams and more recently Connor Williams and DeMarvion Overshown all visiting the Cowboys during Dallas Day.
We don’t yet know which local prospects the Cowboys will invite this year, but we do know which 319 players are invited to the combine this year. And we also have a pretty good idea about which combine invitees would qualify as local prospects for the Cowboys. Here are the 21 local players we know of who’ll be attending the combine this year.
| PFF rank | Player Name | Position | College | Hometown |
| 14 | Jordyn Tyson | WR | Arizona State | Allen, TX |
| 40 | Anthony Hill Jr. | LB | Texas | Denton, TX |