Former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Andrew Booth has found his first job after being waived by Jerry Jones and Co. last August, landing with the UFL's Louisville Kings during the spring football league's recent free agent draft.
Booth was last season vying for a spot on the practice squad in the Metroplex, but he couldn't make the Dallas roster, which led to the Cowboys having the No. 30-ranked unit in total defense and allowing over 377 yards per game. Dallas, inexplicably, gave up 30 points in nearly half their games.
Booth couldn't make that team. He couldn't make any team. As he said before the season, though, the only thing he's looking to control is his own fate. Signing with a UFL squad is the best way to rectify a 2025 season spent on the sidelines.
Andrew Booth's 2024 Season, 2025 Preseason Necessitated UFL Rehab
"It doesn't [stress me]," Booth said last August about competition in the CB room, via dallascowboys.com. "I'm just going out there doing God's work, showing up. Like I said, I can be more diligent and have more intention in my craft, so no, I don't feed into it.
"It's me versus me."
Booth may have caused more harm than good for his cause by over-celebrating and pulling off a Deion Sanders-like maneuver afterwards. Playing for the franchise Sanders won the Super Bowl with in 1996, and against the last team Sanders played on before retiring, Booth made a scene, and he hasn't been seen since.
That's not why he's been gone. Well, unless Jerry Jones felt something about it. You never know with the patriarch of the Cowboys franchise.
It's unclear why the Minnesota Vikings chose not to run it back with the former second-rounder out of Clemson, or why the Cowboys didn't look his way after Trevon Diggs' departure, as they were low on bodies at the end of the season.
Either way, though, he's clearly not looking for his story to be written.
Booth had a 2024 season to forget and, outside of a pick-six, had a 2025 training camp and preseason that wasn't noteworthy enough for him to nab a roster spot. Showing little to prove he was a keeper, Booth needed another chance to prove himself.
He needs to treat Louisville like it's his last shot. It just may be if his 2026 spring is more of the same, but at a lower level.