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The Dallas Cowboys and Tyron Smith will get together for the left tackle to call it a career.
Nearly two months after Zack Martin retired, another Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman has decided to walk away from the game in eight-time Pro Bowl left tackle Tyron Smith.
Smith will sign a ceremonial deal with the Cowboys on Wednesday in order to retire with the team that took him No. 9 overall in the 2011 draft.
Smith played 12 of his 13 seasons with the Cowboys, ending his career with the New York Jets in 2024. He started all 171 career games he played and was named to the Pro Bowl from 2013-19 and 2021.
It is possible Martin and Smith could be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame when they are eligible for the first time in 2030.
Smith was a Day 1 starter who quickly established himself as one of the game’s best blindside blockers. He began his career by protecting Tony Romo and he ended it with Aaron Rodgers as his quarterback.
In 2011, Smith became the first offensive lineman selected in the first round by the Cowboys since 1981 when they took Howard Richards. In the next three years, the Cowboys selected Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick (2013) and Martin (2014) in the first round, forming one of the best offensive lines in the NFL.
Ashton Jeanty discusses the Cowboys and the draft.
Jeanty acknowledged it would be “great” to play for the Cowboys, who hold the No. 12 pick in the upcoming draft.
“It would be great,” Jeanty said on the Up & Adams Show. “It would be a special opportunity, really to play for any team in the NFL would be great. Just the fact that I grew up here, a little different, but all opportunities, any team would be great.”
Jeanty also told Kay Adams about the meeting he had with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, sharing that they talked about Super Bowls during the meeting.
“It went well,” Jeanty told Adams. “We was just talking it up, talking football, talking about Super Bowls.”
Adams asked: Was he what you thought he’d be like? Like a larger than life cartoon character?”
“Oh yeah. For sure,” Jeanty responded. “I came in the room, he was holding this [boxing] championship belt and was just looking at it. I was like, ‘where is this gonna go?’”
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