Cowboys kicking competition: Dallas native signed for 2022 following roller-coaster season from Greg Zuerlein

Greg Zuerlein acquitted himself well in his one and only postseason game with the Dallas Cowboys — admittedly so — making his only field goal attempt and both of his extra point tries. But the fact the latter is a big deal is evidence of his roller-coaster 2021 season, one that became a mixed bag of successes and untimely failures, and several of his failures helped cost the Cowboys wins as they attempted to chase down the No. 1 seed in the NFC. 

As they begin work on figuring out how to become better for 2022, they’ve now added some competition at kicker — expected to sign a homegrown talent in Chris Naggar to a futures deal, a source confirms to CBS Sports. The news was initially delivered via Twitter by Naggar’s agent, Nathan Shackelford of HC Sports Agency in Dallas, and the official league transaction is expected to land before the end of the week.

Naggar joins the Cowboys being no stranger to the Dallas area, a native of the very same city where AT&T Stadium is housed — Arlington, Texas. After making a name for himself at Arlington High School, he went on to enroll at the University of Texas before finishing his collegiate career at Southern Methodist University in the heart of…