Durant arrives in Frisco as a proven starter with a postseason resume that few players at his position can match from the 2025 season.
What Durant did in Los Angeles
Selected by the Rams in the fourth round of the 2022 NFL Draft out of South Carolina State, Durant played in 61 career games with Los Angeles, starting 39 of them. He finished his time there with 141 total tackles, 26 pass breakups and seven interceptions, two of which he returned for touchdowns. In his rookie season alone, his 151 interception return yards led the entire NFL.
His 2025 regular season was among his strongest. Durant played all 17 games, started 15 and tied career highs with 40 tackles and three interceptions, including a pick-six in a Week 12 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The playoffs elevated him further. Durant recorded three interceptions during the Rams’ postseason run, the most by any single player in the NFL during the 2025 postseason. Two of those came in a divisional round win over the Chicago Bears, with another added in the wild card round against the Carolina Panthers. He finished his career postseason record with four interceptions across six games.
His departure from Los Angeles came after the Rams remade their cornerback room entirely, trading for Trent McDuffie and signing his former Kansas City Chiefs teammate Jaylen Watson at the start of free agency. Durant was not pushed out so much as the team moved in a different direction around him.
Why the Cowboys needed him
Dallas enters the offseason with real uncertainty at cornerback. DaRon Bland, the team’s most experienced option at the position, is recovering from foot surgery and his availability for the start of the season remains a question. Second-year cornerback Shavon Revel missed the first nine games of 2025 while recovering from a torn ACL suffered during his college career at East Carolina. The Cowboys needed proven depth, and Durant provides exactly that.
At 5 feet 11 inches and 182 pounds, Durant has experience both on the outside and in the nickel slot, giving new defensive coordinator Christian Parker options in how he deploys the secondary. Parker outlined his priorities for the cornerback position at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, emphasizing physical and mental toughness as the foundation for everything else. Durant’s willingness to tackle and his track record of bouncing back from difficult moments in coverage fit that description.
Durant now joins a cornerback room that includes Bland, Revel, Caelen Carson and Trikwese Bridges. Among that group, only Bland has more experience in the NFL than Durant.
What comes next for Dallas
The Cowboys have been active throughout this free agency period. They previously signed safety Jalen Thompson to a three-year, $33 million deal and added pass rusher Rashan Gary via trade with the Green Bay Packers. Thompson brings his own versatility to the secondary and can shift into the nickel role when needed, giving Parker further flexibility in his defensive alignments.
Dallas still holds the 12th and 20th picks in the first round of the upcoming draft and has not ruled out adding another cornerback on day one. The team met with several cornerback prospects at the combine and is expected to bring candidates to The Star in Frisco for pre-draft visits as the evaluation process continues.
Durant is not the final piece of this secondary. He is, for now, the most experienced one available.
