One of the most important tenets of building out a roster is to know the store you're shopping at. NFL clubs need to nail their draft picks, guess right on scheme fits in big-money free agency and trade the right amount of capital when swinging deals. One of the unsung parts of talent acquisition though is knowing which aisles to walk down when looking for those red dot specials.
Most folks wouldn't consider the Las Vegas Raiders a factory for talent. Grabbing cast offs from there is often a fruitless exercise, and that can be viewed with the recen release of DE Charles Snowden, who was suspended for thiree games to start the season before training camp began. The team has since released him. But the Raiders do have one area of their team worth
paying attention to; the tight end position. On Thursday, the Dallas Cowboys grabbed a former member of that group to augment their own summer trials, claiming Zack Kuntz off of waivers.
The Cowboys claimed TE Zack Kuntz off waivers from Las Vegas and placed TE Princeton Fant (knee) on injured reserve.
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) August 6, 2026
Now make no mistake, Kuntz is an extreme long shot to latch on with Dallas. But the circumstances of moving Princeton Fant to IR after he tore his ACL, opened up a spot at the back end of the positional depth chart while the team works in Oxnard, CA.
And if a team is going to claim a released tight end, getting one from a team that employs one of the best TEs in football in Brock Bowers, plus former second-round pick Michael Mayer.
Kuntz isn't that, but replacing TE4 or TE5 on the depth chart with a player from a club that has a pretty good track record of picking the position makes a ton of sense.
Kuntz is actually a former seventh-round pick of the New York Jets, and played there for two seasons before moving on to the UFL and the DC Defenders. He spent some time with the Miami Dolphins this offseason before spending a week with the Raiders.
Now, he'll join his third team of the year and try to convince the Dallas coaching staff he has something they're missing.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Stack-stealing Cowboys look to find realize potential Raiders missed
