Dwayne Harris's Departure Helped Whitehead Choose Dallas

Pretty much ever since Lucky Whitehead signed with the Dallas Cowboys in early May, as an undrafted free agent out of Florida Atlantic, he’s been billed as a strong candidate to take over as the team’s return man--a replacement for Dwayne Harris, who left for a five-year deal with the New York Giants this offseason.

As it turns out, the departure of Harris and the knowledge that the Cowboys would need a return man in his absence helped influence Whitehead’s decision to come to Dallas.

“I knew who he was,” Whitehead said this week, per the Dallas Morning News. “I’d seen a few games so I knew I had a decent opportunity.”

Whitehead has been among the players fielding punts in OTAs, and he’ll get a chance to return kicks as well. On offense, he’s been working out of the slot, another role that Harris filled while he was here.

“He has done a nice job playing a couple of different spots,” head coach Jason Garrett said of Whitehead.