DeMarcus Ware racked up quite a few accolades during his 12-year NFL career, many of those coming with the Dallas Cowboys.
The former star linebacker is set to add another achievement to that list Sunday.
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DeMarcus Ware To Enter Ring of Honor
Ware will be inducted into the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor at halftime of Sunday’s game between Dallas (4-2) and the Los Angeles Rams (3-4), the team announced Wednesday. The game is set to kick off at noon CDT at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones surprised Ware when he announced the decision to induct him into the Ring of Honor back in August at Ford Center in front of a crowd gathered for a season kickoff event. The announcement came later in the same month that Ware was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
“This is the second time he’s surprised me,” Ware said when the decision was announced.
“The first time when you told me I was going into the (Pro Football) Hall of Fame. And secondly, for me getting into your Hall of Fame. That means so much to me. Yes, Canton was great, but this is my home and my dad (Jones) that I played for. I did enough.”
Ware spent nine of his 12 professional seasons in Dallas and will become the franchise’s 23rd inductee into the exclusive Ring of Honor. He will be the first new member of the group since Gil Brandt’s 2018 induction and the first former player to join since Darren Woodson’s addition in 2015.
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Ware will be the 20th player inducted into the Ring, but just the sixth player drafted by Jones since he bought the Cowboys in 1989. The franchise took Ware 11th overall in the 2005 NFL Draft.
“You guys understand how seriously I take this Ring of Honor,” Jones said after he announced the decision. “It’s not a cavalier thing for me, at all. I recognize the fact it’s a committee of one that makes this happen.
“As a player, for him to have distinguished himself, I’d like to think when you go into the Ring of Honor, that’s not where it stops for the Dallas Cowboys organization. It goes forward for there. He’s absolutely what I had in mind when I talk about the Ring of Honor.”
The Hall of Famer was named a Pro Bowler in seven of his nine seasons in Dallas, excluding his first and last years with the franchise. Ware took home AP first-team All-Pro honors four times during that span. He is the Cowboys’ all-time sack leader and was also a Pro Bowler twice in the final three seasons of his career with the Denver Broncos.
Ware finished his NFL career with 657 total tackles (505 solo), 229 QB hits, 171 tackles for a loss, and 138.5 sacks — the league’s ninth-highest career sack tally. He started 140 of the 141 games he played in a Cowboys uniform and retired from the NFL in 2017.