FRISCO, Texas — Perrion Winfrey is a redemption story powerful enough to bring Brian Schottenheimer and the Dallas Cowboys' front office to tears, literally. The young defensive lineman was added to the roster in mid-June for what would amount to a tryout at training camp in Oxnard.

Winfrey went on to be a bright spot in camp and throughout the preseason, but that doesn't always equate to surviving final cuts in late August, and the former fourth-round pick knows that all too well — to the point he thought he was being sent to waivers on Tuesday.

Only, he wasn't, and what happened next was enough to tug at anyone's heart strings.

"We brought Perrion Winfrey in, and he assumed he was being cut," said head coach Brian Schotteheimer. "And so he walked in and sat down in my office, and [vi

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