The Dallas Cowboys were the last team in the NFL to sign an external free agent and when they did they seem to have opened the floodgates. Not even an hour after news came of the team adding wide receiver James Washington, it was reported that they have landed yet another.
It always made sense that the Cowboys were going to add players at their own pace and that when they did they would do so at positions of need to protect themselves ahead of the draft. That is how they have chosen to operate for a long time now.