Cowboys BREAKING: Antonio Callaway Cut Following Arrest, New WR Signed
FRISCO - In what is surely not entirely a coincidence, the Dallas Cowboys wasted no time in a move following his weekend arrest as they have released Antonio Callaway and signed another wide receiver, Tyron Johnson, to the 90-man roster.
As we reported earlier on Monday here inside The Star in Frisco, the Cowboys hosted five street free agents for workouts. Johnson, we will presume, emerged at the winner of that job search. (ESPN now notes that Johnson topped a group including receivers N'Keal Harry and Lynn Bowden, plus QBs Jacob Eason and Bryce Perkins, and DBs Jordan Miller and Thakarius Keyes.)
The much-traveled Johnson, who was undrafted out of Oklahoma State, is 6-1 and 193 and in 22 career NFL games has 23 catches for 422 yards and three touchdowns. Most of that came in 2020 with the Chargers. Johnson, 27, has run a 4.36 40.
Callaway had a warrant out for his arrest before Florida police encountered him this weekend and arrested him in Miami for driving with a suspended license. … though it seems in this particular incident he was a passenger in a car that was pulled over … which nevertheless led to his arrest.
This adds to an already lengthy list of off-the-field issues for Callaway since he was drafted by Cleveland in 2018.
During his time with the Browns, Callaway was suspended in 2018 for four games due to a violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy. He was also issued a citation in Ohio for a suspended license in the same year.
He was then suspended an additional 10 games for a second failed drug test in 2019, only to have another four games tacked on for further substance violations.
Callaway signed with the Cowboys in 2022 to compete on the team's practice squad. He signed a futures contract with the organization in January and as part of a deep Dallas wideouts room led by CeeDee Lamb, Brandin Cooks and Michael Gallup was considered a long shot to make the roster. The Cowboys, despite the attention paid to ideas like the signing of DeAndre Hopkins (which is not Dallas' present plan), are actually simply "churning the bottom'' of the 90-man roster. And Callaway is no longer involved in a positive way in that "churn.''
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