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Cowboys guard gets the big bucks from Dallas.
FRISCO, Texas — Anyone wondering who would be next in line to land a contract extension from the Dallas Cowboys in 2025, Pro Bowl tight end Jake Ferguson and All-Pro cornerback DaRon Bland both being secured on new deals this summer, probably had All-Pro left guard Tyler Smith someone on their radar. If so, nail meet hammer head, because Smith has agreed to terms on, and officially signed, a record-setting four-year contract extension worth up to $96 million with $81.2 million that secures him through the 2030 season.It’s a negotiation that began early in training camp, and the deal arrives several weeks after the Kansas City Chiefs awarded offensive lineman Trey Smith with a four-year, $94 million extension with $70 million guaranteed, and one year after the Philadelphia Eagles paid Landon Dickerson by way of a four-year extension worth $84 million with $50 million in guaranteed money.
Having exercised the fifth-year option on Smith for 2026, worth a fully-guaranteed $21.27 million, the Cowboys escaped that hefty cap hit and instead set themselves up for cap savings over the next couple seasons — approximately $1.2 million and $16.1 million in 2025 and 2026, respectively. Smith entered the league as the Cowboys’ first-round pick, 24th-overall, out of Tulsa in 2022, and though the selection was met with much chagrin from outside of the building, he has quickly entered the conversation as one of the best guards in all of football.
His rookie season also saw him play offensive tackle due to injury at the position, and he excelled there as well, en route to being named to the PFWA All-Rookie Team, but given how elite he’s been at guard, the Cowboys have routinely refused to flex him back outside over the past two seasons — instead spending a first-round pick to select Tyler Guyton out of Oklahoma in 2024.
Before sending Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, Dallas was looking to move him to the Big Apple.
Before Micah Parsons was traded to the Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones offered him to the New York Jets. Appearing on 880 ESPN New York with Gary Myers, Jones indicated he sought to trade Parsons in a package for Quinnen Williams, but the Jets turned it down because they “didn’t have the resources to entertain conversation.”Jones called it a “prerequisite” for any trade involving Parsons was the Cowboys would receive a “significant, dominant” player to line up on the interior of the defensive line.
Myers received confirmation from Jones that he was seeking a package of Williams and at least one first-round draft pick, potentially two, from the Jets. The deal that Jones laid out during his conversation with Myers is exactly what...
