A former Clemson running back is being waived ahead of this evening’s deadline for NFL roster cuts.

The Dallas Cowboys are waiving Phil Mafah, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Today at 6 p.m. marks the NFL’s cutdown deadline, where teams have to reduce their rosters from 90 to 53 players.

After being drafted by the Cowboys in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft (No. 239 overall pick), Mafah was placed on injured reserve last August due to a shoulder injury.

After being activated from IR, Mafah made his NFL debut in the final week of the 2025 NFL regular season and scored his first career NFL touchdown on a 1-yard rush in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ 34-17 loss to the New York Giants. Mafah finished that game with five carries for 18 yards and his score.

Mafah finished the 2026 NFL preseason with 13 carries for 61 rushing yards and one rushing touchdown.

A punishing workhorse running back, Mafah earned third-team All-ACC honors as a graduate senior in 2024, when he rushed 216 times for 1,115 yards with eight touchdowns and caught 21 passes for 103 yards over 14 games (all starts).

Mafah was hampered all year by a preseason shoulder injury but still recorded the 24th 1,000-yard rushing season in Clemson history, and his 1,115 yards ranked 14th in a season in school history. He posted 981 rushing yards and eight touchdowns over the Tigers’ first nine games of the season before being severely limited down the stretch.

A former four-star prospect from Grayson High School (Loganville, Ga.), Mafah finished his Clemson career with 561 carries for 2,887 yards and 28 touchdowns, as well as 58 receptions for 309 yards over 50 games (21 starts) from 2021-24.

He finished his career ranked ninth in Clemson history in career rushing yards and tied for 10th in career rushing touchdowns.