Trey Lance of the Cowboys: Remaining with the team till 2024 – CBS Sports Staff
To get a better look, the Cowboys will hold onto Trey Lance for an additional season.
To get a better look, the Cowboys will hold onto Trey Lance for an additional season.
According to Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News, Lance will receive his $4.25 million roster bonus from the Cowboys for the 2024 campaign.
Lance was traded by the 49ers late in training camp, and he never played a snap for the Cowboys in 2023. Dallas, though, is apparently confident in his progress and hasn’t thought about cutting him. It should come as no surprise that the team will not pick up Lance’s $22.4 million fifth-year option. In the best-case scenario, he will start 2024 as the backup quarterback for the Cowboys.
Four cornerbacks have formal meetings with Cowboys at NFL Combine – DallasCowboys.com, Nick Harris
Cowboys covering all the bases when it comes to the draft
The NFL Combine powers on in downtown Indianapolis as Thursday served as the opening day for on-field drills for defensive linemen and linebackers while also serving as the media availability day for defensive backs and tight ends.
The media sessions allowed for more clarity on where the Dallas Cowboys could be putting their focus this week at the combine, as four cornerbacks communicated to DallasCowboys.com about having formal meetings with the team this week: Clemson’s Nate Wiggins, Wake Forest’s Caelen Carson, Georgia’s Kamari Lassiter and Iowa State’s T.J. Tampa.
Wiggins, who is projected to go in the first round by draft experts, smiled when he recalled the conversation he had with the Cowboys staff as they discussed defensive schemes from his days at Clemson and his nutrition at 6-foot-2, 185 pounds.
Carson is a day two option at cornerback that also has a lengthy profile at 6-foot-0, 195 pounds. He said his conversation with defensive backs coach Al Harris stood out from the many meetings he’s had this week as they talked technique like he was “one of his players.”
Lassiter has drawn comparisons to Jourdan Lewis with his ability to play in the nickel, but his outside ability also has teams circling his name on draft boards. He is scheduled to have his formal meeting with the Cowboys on Thursday night.
Estimating NFL Free Agency Contracts for Star Running Backs in 2024 Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report is the one who didn’t receive a franchise tag.
Could Tony Pollard wind up in Philadelphia with Kellen Moore
In addition to producing 1,316 scrimmage yards and 1,005 yards of rushes, Pollard only averaged 4.0 yards per carry after surpassing 5.0 yards per rush in the previous two seasons. The Cowboys were only 20th as a team in yards per carry (4.1).
Pollard’s return to the Cowboys at a fair market value seems unlikely. The 26-year-old is obviously more useful in a committee role than as a lead back, and Dallas might choose a player with every-down skills given that Rico Dowdle is also set to become a free agency.
Nobody should be shocked if the Cowboys make a move for D’Andre Swift, Barkley, or Jacobs this offseason.
Pollard is expected to sign a one-year, $6.5 million contract. for free agency
McClay looking at ‘bigger bodies’ for Zimmer defense – DallasCowboys.com, Nick Harris
The defense will get bigger
Dallas Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay and various members of the coaching staff, scouting department and front office are entrenched in downtown Indianapolis this week to meet with players at the NFL Combine and see draft prospects test in a rigorous scouting environment in front of the 32 teams.
For McClay, it’s a week full of action that doesn’t stop from the moment he arrives in The Hoosier State to the time he departs, but the process allows him and his colleagues to get a better feel for who players are off the field as well as how they look in-person.
“As we begin this process, it’s a little different scheme,” McClay said. “We’re looking for big, athletic football players. Finding guys that have those little nuances that [Mike Zimmer] has. It’s been great for us to spend time with the coaches and hear them talk to players and communicate so we can get a better feel for what that is as well.”
“I think we’re probably going to look more so at those bigger bodies at the inside, stopping that. We’re always looking at linebackers. That’s a position that in free agency and in the draft that we’re going to have to look at because we want to add more players there.”
