Jason Witten

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is still tight with his former tight end. The billionaire businessman — worth a reported $8.9 billion — was spotted partying with former player Jason Witten over the weekend at Miami’s Prime 112 to celebrate the retired pro’s 39th birthday. A spy tells us the...

Four years ago today, the Cowboys inked Jason Witten to a brand new deal to take him through the 2021 season. The contract was set to cover four years, but the tight end wound up playing just one year on that pact and two more Dallas years in total — with a retirement sandwiched in between.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Rick Gosselin spent 20 years as the NFL columnist for the Dallas Morning News, including 20 offseasons studying and researching prospects for the NFL draft. He didn’t watch any tape – he was a writer, not a scout – but he talked to the men who did watch tape. He built a network of NFL general managers, head coaches, personnel directors, scouts and assistant coaches from all 32 teams who would share with him their analyses of players. Gosselin used their insights to build his own draft board, Top 100 board and mock drafts. For 10 consecutive years he had the best Top 100 board in the country (2001-10), according to the Huddle Report, and three times he produced the best mock draft. This NFL offseason he’ll dig into his scouting reports and discover what NFL talent evaluators were saying about players coming out of college. Next up is recently retired tight end Jason Witten, who spent 16 of his 17 NFL seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. Here are some of the comments on Witten from 14 talent evaluators leading up to his 2003 NFL draft:

AUSTIN — Sam Ehlinger had no clue someone was about to drop in on his interview. And he definitely didn’t expect the interloper to be a trophy-toting Dallas Cowboys legend. A few days ago, recently re-retired NFL tight end Jason Witten crashed an interview to present Ehlinger with the former's...

AUSTIN — Sam Ehlinger had no clue someone was about to drop in on his interview. And he certainly didn’t expect the interloper to be a trophy-toting Dallas Cowboys legend. A few days ago, recently re-retired NFL tight end Jason Witten crashed an interview to present Ehlinger with his eponymous collegiate man of the year award. The former Texas quarterback (2017-20) was one of three finalists for the honor, along with Alabama running back Najee Harris and Notre Dame defensive lineman Daeline Hayes.

Former Texas Football quarterback Sam Ehlinger was named the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday night. The event, which was based in Dallas, was streamed on the award's website and honored its three finalists, including RB Najee Harris of Alabama and DL Daelin Hayes of Notre Dame.

1 Jason Witten — Re: “He really is going home — Witten to coach at Liberty Christian where his kids attend,” by David Moore, Tuesday SportsDay column. Jason Witten is, and always has been, the epitome of what a professional athlete should be: a “class act,” a model citizen and, perhaps the best of all, a true role model to young athletes who aspire to make a career of professional sports. Retiring as a Dallas Cowboy is the way it should be even though it is with only a one-day contract to make it legal.

When news of Jason Witten’s re-retirement broke, it was understood that the future Hall-of-Fame tight end subsequently would waste no time transitioning into coaching. The former longtime Dallas Cowboys great officially was named the new head coach of Liberty Christian, a well-regarded high school in Texas. Witten’s hiring was announced by the program via Twitter Monday.

It’s been an eventful couple of years for Jason Witten. He spent the 2018 season in the Monday Night Football broadcast booth, the 2019 season with the Cowboys and the 2020 season with the Las Vegas Raiders. But now that he’s retired, Witten is taking a new path in his...

FRISCO, Texas - Former Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten has been named head football coach at Liberty Christian in Argyle, Texas. Witten passed on several NFL and major college football opportunities as an assistant coach to opt to coach at the school his children attend. He joins former Los Angeles Chargers and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers, who retired after a 17-year career, in moving from the NFL to high school. Rivers will coach at St. Michael Catholic in Fairhope, Alabama.

Last week, we learned Jason Witten would sign a one-day contract with Dallas Cowboys so he can retire as part of the team he was on for so long. Today, Liberty Christian School in Argyle, Texas announced that he has also agreed to be their head coach of football. No word on when he will start, but his children have apparently attended the Denton County institution.

Call him Coach Witten now ... Jason Witten has accepted a job offer to be a head coach for a high school football team in Texas -- just a few days after he officially retired from the NFL. Liberty Christian School in Argyle announced Monday the 38-year-old ex-Dallas Cowboys superstar...

The first time former Dallas Cowboys tight end and future Hall of Fame honoree Jason Witten retired from football, he went into a lucrative, high-visibility job as part of the Monday Night Football broadcast team. That rather infamously did not go so well. He came out of retirement, spent a year back with the Cowboys, signed for a very desultory season with the Las Vegas Raiders, and then retired again. This time he is opting to go into the coaching ranks. But rather than trying to vault right to the top of things, like he did with his broadcasting venture, he is starting on a much lower rung by taking the head coaching job at his children’s school, Liberty Christian High School in Argyle, a suburb of Dallas.

When tight end Jason Witten retired last week he was described as “a future Hall of Famer...” which he will be. But he was also described as a “first-ballot” Hall of Famer … which he may not be. And should not. That’s not because Witten isn’t Canton worthy. He is....