Much To Do … With Clock Ticking

FRISCO, Texas – June already!

Another OTA on Thursday. A couple more next week. A three-day minicamp the week after that. And don’t look now, by then the Cowboys will be five weeks from the start of training camp.

And how the questions facing the Cowboys continue to mount, those needing answers before that 9/11 Sunday night season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Who is the backup left offensive tackle, backup right offensive tackle, er, if someone can handle both, the swing tackle?

Who is the starting left guard? Will it be first-round draft choice Tyler Smith, or might Connor McGovern, the former third-round pick, step up, possibly pushing Smith into one of the above roles?

Who is the backup center behind Tyler Biadasz? Matt Farniok? Maybe McGovern if not starting at left guard, thus manning the all-important game-day role as backup center/guard?

Can Jalen Tolbert earn the third receiver job behind CeeDee Lamb and James Washington? Or might that spot – until Michael Gallup is ready to go like sometime in October – become a rotational position by situation?

Since don’t think the Cowboys can be serious about not providing some kicking competition for free-agent rookie Jonathan Garibay, just who might that be? And see where Detroit waived Aldrick Rojas, the veteran who has kicked for five teams over the past five seasons, hitting on 57 of 62 field goals during his three years with the Giants (2017-19), an 82.7 percent conversion rate, but just 86 of 94 extra points.

Can last year’s third-round pick Chauncey Golston successfully make the conversion from defensive end to defensive tackle, where the Cowboys currently are looking at that possible alternative? Or at least of playing a dual role?

Certainly, the Cowboys, and probably not until at the earliest the start of training camp, must find out if Jabril Cox is ready for that third linebacker role. Or might Luke Gifford or sixth-round pick Devin Harper earn that role?

And there seems to be a logjam at the…