FRISCO, Texas – The Cowboys have agreed to terms on their first trade of the 2025 offseason, sending a 2025 fifth-round pick (170th overall) and a 2026 seventh-round pick for to the Buffalo Bills for cornerback Kaiir Elam and a 2025 sixth-round pick.
Elam, 24, has spent the past three seasons in Buffalo and started 12 games for the Bills.
In 2024, Elam played in 13 games and started in four, tallying 26 total tackles, two tackles for loss, and two pass deflections.
The year before, Elam missed most of the regular season with an ankle injury but played in three regular season games and both of Buffalo's playoff games.
His rookie season was the best of his NFL career statistically to this point, starting in 6 games and racking up 41 tackles, six pass deflections and three interceptions. His first career interception came in Week 5 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and his first career playoff interception came against the Miami Dolphins in the wildcard round.
Elam was selected with the 23rd overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft to the Bills out of Florida, where he was named to the SEC All-Freshman team in 2019 and earned second-team All-SEC honors in 2020.
The Elam family is a familiar one in Dallas, as Kaiir's father, Abram, played safety for the Cowboys in 2006 and 2011. Abram played a total of eight seasons in the league for five different teams.
With Elam's addition, the Cowboys have now added three first round picks to their roster thus far in the 2025 offseason. Dallas agreed to terms with former Jets defensive tackle Solomon Thomas, the third overall pick in 2017, and former New Orleans Saints defensive end Payton Turner, the 28th overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft.
The Cowboys get a much-needed body at the cornerback position after Jourdan Lewis agreed to terms with the Jacksonville Jaguars and a lot of banged up players in the room, and Elam gets a fresh start looking to prove himself in Dallas.
