Former Cowboys DT Osa Odighizuwa has 'picture on a dartboard' for this 2026 rivalry game

Osa Odighizuwa has yet to set foot on the field as a member of the 49ers, but he's already looking ahead to the next time he'll walk through the tunnel of AT&T Stadium... while wearing enemy colors. The 27-year-old defensive tackle, traded to San Francisco during the offseason after five years in Dallas, admitted this week that when the NFL schedule was released, the game pitting his new team against his former one got extra attention.

He stopped just short, though, of calling it an actual revenge game. "I mean, speaking to the rivalry, bro, this is a game that, for a long time, it's the game that you've got a picture on a dartboard and you're throwing the knife at the picture," Odighizuwa said on The Richard Sherman Podcast . Notably, Odighizuwa didn't even identify the Cowboys by name or specifically call out the Week 10 matchup, set to be played in the late-afternoon timeslot on Sunday, Nov.

15. He didn't have to; Sherman and Odighizuwa both knew exactly which game he was referencing. Osa Odighizuwa says he has the Cowboys game circled on the 49ers schedule: “Speaking to the rivalry, this is a game that for a long time, it’s the game that you got a picture on a dart board and you’re throwing the knife at the picture and now I just take down the picture and I… pic.

twitter. com/NqrBvL8r3I — Coach Yac 🗣 (@Coach_Yac) May 19, 2026 "Now I just take down the picture and I put up the other picture," Odighizuwa continued. "I'm just on the other side of it, but the energy is exactly the same.