Weeks after buying and selling an enormous piece of their protection, the Cowboys are maintaining one among their different gamers within the trenches for the lengthy haul.
Offensive lineman Tyler Smith inked a four-year, $96 million extension with Dallas to change into the highest-paid guard in NFL historical past, in line with a number of reviews.
Trey Smith of the Chiefs had beforehand signed the biggest guard contract ($94 million) earlier this summer time.
NFL Network reported that the brand new deal for Smith, 24, comes with $81.2 million in assured cash.
Smith was a first-round select of Tulsa within the 2021 NFL Draft and has since blossomed right into a two-time Professional Bowler (2023, 2024) to shore up the Cowboys' offensive line.
Final season, he earned a 76 cross blocking grade on Professional Soccer Focus, which ranked him because the Twenty second-best guard out of 136 gamers on the place.
Since buying and selling All-Professional edge rusher Micah Parsons to the Packers days earlier than Week 1, the Cowboys have been lively in maintaining different items of their core.
Dallas and cornerback DaRon Bland agreed to a four-year, $92 million contract extension to maintain a key piece of their cross protection. Days later, the Cowboys handed fullback Hunter Luepke a two-year extension that can permit him to make as much as $7.5 million.
On Friday, owner Jerry Jones joined 105.3 The Fan to additional clarify his rationale for buying and selling Parsons to 2 first-round picks and defensive deal with Kenny Clark.
“I see an allocation. I see extra of an allocation right here,” Jones mentioned. “Versus Herschel Walker, which was to mainly get draft picks and was mainly a recognition that we'd compete on one other day, this was not that. This was a really aware commerce to get three, 4, 5, six gamers for one.
