Inside The Star
Doesn’t everyone just love getting the franchise tag placed on them? Well, that window opened tomorrow, and that marks pretty much the unofficial start to the 2025 football offseason.
Although it really does not start until March 12, at 3 P.M CT. Meaning any negotiated contracts or trades can be finalized and processed. Any free agent or trade discussions that begin after this point can be finalized immediately.
With that said, over the weekend we got some clarity of what and who the front office of the Dallas Cowboys may use it on, I am sure you can guess who that may be on the defensive side of the ball.
https://twitter.com/Marcus_Mosher/status/1893885250024964508 As of Sunday, the Cowboys have started negotiations with free agent defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa.
Odighizuwa is scheduled to become a free agent next month.
He had a career-high 4.5 sacks and 23 quarterback hits and will have a lot of teams call his agent!
“We have had negotiations with Osa,‘’ Jones told the Dallas Morning News. “I just think Osa is a really good football player. He’s an important piece.‘’
Now although he did not rule out using the tag on him, it seems very unlikely!
It would cost them $23.4 million for 2025, but the transition tag is a more palatable $18.9 million.
“It’s a tool,‘’ Jones said. “It’s something we haven’t ruled out using. We’ll just see how this week goes and how our visits [with his agent] go.‘’
With 22 players in Dallas set to hit free agency, and the Cowboys realistically will have to let some of them walk, they just can’t bring all of them back.
Guys like Rico Dowdle, Jourdan Lewis, DeMarcus Lawrence, Chauncey Golston and Eric Kendricks are just a few of the names that he may not see back at the Star in 2025.
https://twitter.com/clarencehilljr/status/1892624803938312694 Let’s also not forget Parsons is expected to command between $35 million and $40 million in his new deal, becoming the highest-paid non-QB in the league.
Dak Prescott enters this offseason with the biggest average salary in NFL history, clocking in at $60 million per season, while CeeDee Lamb is the second-highest paid WR of all time, at $34 million a season.
This offseason is going to filled with flips and turns, the only decently good news that the Dallas Cowboys have gotten lately is that of the salary cap increase.
Last week, the NFL informed teams that the 2025 salary cap will be between $277.5 million to $281.5 million, well ahead of last year’s figure of $255.4 million.
https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1892293601415119127 That should allow Dallas to at least think about doing something about all these pending free agents and maybe look to bring in a guy so they don’t have to hope a late-round pick hits this season.
Back to the main man of this post, Osa, he will be needed for Matt Eberflus running this defense.
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