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Cowboys star Leighton Vander Esch wears a wolf (yes, really) in Instagram photo

The “Wolf Howl” may be new, but Leighton Vander Esch has always been “The Wolf Hunter.”

The nicknake was given to him by teammates. And it fits, considering he’s a regular hunter of wolves in his home state of Idaho.

And now he has the pelt to prove it.

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My girls & my wolf hunter

A post shared by Maddy Tucker (@_madalynn02) on Dec 3, 2018 at 7:39pm PST

“I got so hyped when Leighton got the tackle and he did the wolf howl,” Ezekiel Elliott said after Thursday’s win over the Saints.