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It is hard to see the Cowboys trading for Myles Garrett.
The only thing worse than the noise created by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is the noise created by the outside world. Whenever a big-name player is released or makes the news as a possible trade candidate, immediately the Cowboys are thrown into consideration. It doesn’t matter how unlikely the situation is, bring up Dallas and you have a story.
During Super Bowl week, one of the game’s best edge rushers, Myles Garrett, went public and requested a trade. And just like clockwork, Garrett was immediately a part of discussions that had him going to Dallas in a blockbuster trade. That’s the way it goes, we get it. Thinking about this longer than a few seconds makes this proposition unrealistic considering the Cowboys are likely months away from signing their own star edge rusher, Micah Parsons. Can we just please put this ember out before it starts smoking?
Nope.
Sadly, the Garrett goes to Dallas talks didn’t flame out. Quite the contrary. It started heating up as a couple of credible football sites decided to include this blockbuster trade in their most recent mock drafts. Last week, NFL.com did a mock draft that had the Cowboys trading for Garrett and then this week, PFF.com did the same thing. While their mocks contained different drafted players, the gist had the Cowboys giving up the 12th overall pick in this year’s draft plus next year’s first-rounder for Garrett.
While a move like this would do wonders for raising the hairs on the back of our necks in terms of excitement, there are so many factors that make this implausible.
Breaking, breaking, read all about it - the Dallas Cowboys are trying to save money by building through the draft. The Cowboys have a lot of money committed to Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and soon to Parsons. They also have players like Tyler Smith and DaRon Bland who are entering the fourth year of their rookie contracts and also will get pricy second contracts soon.
With a top-heavy payroll, the Cowboys must make the most of their draft resources to keep bringing in low-cost talent. They are not in the position to trade those resources. And to even consider taking this approach is a heavy deviation from how the Cowboys front office operates.
Two first-rounders is a lot of draft capital to give up, especially with one of them being the 12th overall pick in April’s draft. Since 2020, the Cowboys have landed three top-talent players with their first-round picks so handing over two of them is a heavy price for a team that is pretty good at drafting players on Day 1.
Draft picks aside, a deal like this would come with financial implications. For the Cowboys, it’s not that bad. They would get Garrett for two years for roughly $20 million a season. That’s a good price for a...
