Jerry Jones had a busy weekend before the Cowboys ever kicked off in Indianapolis.
According to Cowboys insider Clarence Hill Jr., the owner and general manager crossed paths with Kanye West, who now performs as Ye, during Ye’s show at AT&T Stadium on Saturday night. Hill posted on X: “Jerry Jones met with Kanye West before the show tonight @ATTStadium,”
The timing fits neatly around a strange stretch for Dallas. The Cowboys landed in Indianapolis at 3-5 after a 33-30 overtime loss to Arizona, with the Tuesday trade deadline hanging over everything.
Their next stop is Lucas Oil Stadium, where they’ll face the Colts, who are 2-6, at 1 p.m. ET on FOX.
Ye’s appearance at AT&T Stadium was a notable one on its own. It was the first concert of his career at the Cowboys’ home stadium and part of his 2026 stadium tour tied to the album “Bully.”
West’s public football lean has generally pointed toward Chicago, not Dallas. The Chicago native has long been seen as a Bears supporter, and his NFL connections have mostly come through stadium bookings rather than any formal tie to a team. There’s no public record of West discussing the Cowboys at length, and nothing showing a previous connection to Jones beyond the AT&T Stadium date.
While that unusual scene played out in Arlington, Jones was also making his case for patience on the roster front. He appeared Friday on 105.3 The Fan’s K&C Masterpiece and dismissed the idea that a loss in Indianapolis would automatically push Dallas toward selling.
“I really believe that we have a team that the work we’ve done over certainly the last 18 months or the last year in this year has real potential to play better than it’s playing now,” Jones said. “And so my situation, I’m not talking about Indianapolis.
I’m not talking about any other team. I’m talking about our situation.”
Jones said another wave of major moves would ignore how much the roster has already changed.
“Our situation, because of the amount and the commitment and the changes that we have made, it’s not, in my mind, the smart thing to do to make big adjustments,” Jones said. “So I’d be a lot more likely to be adding to this direction than taking away from it.”
The caution makes sense based on the draft capital Dallas has already moved around. The Cowboys have four picks in the 2027 draft and already dealt a 2028 second-rounder to Pittsburgh for Joey Porter Jr. on Oct.
- A week earlier, Jones said a deal “would have to be a dynamic situation for us to give up picks.”
The deadline arrives at 3 p.m. CT Tuesday, two days after the Colts game. For now, the Cowboys owner spent the weekend in Indianapolis with his stadium’s newest headliner not far away.
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