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Any Cowboys’ player that emerges is great for the team, but some players are more helpful than others.
With more and more football activities ramping up, the time is coming for us to start identifying some of our training camp crushes. Yes, we want all players on the Dallas Cowboys to work out, but it’s inevitable that we migrate to our favorites and start buying tickets to the hype train.
There can be several reasons that we take a particular interest in a player. Perhaps it was a draft prospect we once touted, and we are now looking to confirm some priors. Maybe a player attended our favorite college. Or, perhaps we just like the dude.
While there are a slew of reasons that drive our rooting interest, one element that is often overlooked is low-cost player control. If you ever find yourself torn between which players you’d like to see make the roster or have a breakout season, it’s always more beneficial for the Cowboys if that player has more years left on their contract, preferably at a cheaper cost. Using this as a guideline, here is how it should help us answer the following roster battle questions.
The great thing about having a one-two punch like CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens is that it takes a lot of pressure off of so many other guys who we might have seen as a potential WR2 a few weeks ago. Now, we’re just hoping one other player emerges as the team’s third wide-receiving option. And the choices are plentiful.
And while you might already have you’re favorite picked out, the most ideal candidate is...
Why Turpin? Because he just signed a three-year extension this offseason, meaning he’s sticking around through 2027. You could also make a case for last year’s sixth-round pick, Ryan Flournoy, as he also has three years left on his deal. Turpin is still the better choice because he’s also an All-Pro returner.
If you’re a Jalen Tolbert fan, it would be great to see him do well, but the timing would stink because he’ll enter free agency next offseason. Parris Campbell is also an unfavorable choice since he’s only on a one-year deal. Jonathan Mingo or Jalen Brooks have two years left on their rookie deals, so one of them emerging would be okay, but still not as advantageous as Turpin or Flournoy.
We should add that any undrafted free agent would come with up to four years of player control (counting the year they’re a restricted free agent), so any rookie, drafted or undrafted, will always be most desirable should they breakout.
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