Isaac Alarcón García (born July 27, 1998) is a Mexican professional

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defensive tackle for the

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of the

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(NFL). He played college football at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and joined the Cowboys in 2020 as a part of the league's

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Early years

Alarcón first started playing football at age 14 years old at Club Pumas, a youth football club, then attended the UANL High School No. 9 in Monterrey,

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. He accepted a football scholarship from the

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and Mixed-sex education, coeducational private ...

(

ITESM Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

). He played as a

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and

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. In 2019, he contributed to ITESM winning the Mexican college football national championship. In 2016, he was on the Mexico national team that earned a bronze medal in the U19 World Championship in China.

Professional career

Alarcón was allocated to the

on April 27, 2020. He is part of the NFL's International Player Pathway Program that allowed him to train for two months alongside NFL players and draft hopefuls at the

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after being selected from an international combine held in Germany in October 2019. He was waived on September 5, 2020, and signed to the practice squad the next day. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Cowboys on January 4, 2021. On August 31, 2021, Alarcón was waived by the Cowboys and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. Alarcón was drafted by the

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in the third round of the

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on April 15, 2021. His roster exemption was kept for the 2021 season. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Cowboys on January 18, 2022. On August 30, 2022, Alarcón was waived by the Cowboys and signed to the practice squad the next day.

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Dallas Cowboys bio

Early years

Professional career

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