There’s just a little over three weeks before the first NFL Sunday of the 2024 regular season. First, teams need to wrap up their preseason, including the upcoming Week 2 slate.
That lineup of pro football action includes the Dallas Cowboys playing on the road against 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett and a Cleveland Browns defense that surrendered the fewest total yards per game (270.2) since the 2014 “Legion of Boom” Seattle Seahawks defense allowed 267.1 10 years ago.
Naturally, Dallas would like to face that ferocious unit with its top offensive playmaker in wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, a 2023 All-Pro who led the NFL in catches (135), ranked second in the league in receiving yards (1,749) and third in receiving touchdowns (12). His 135 catches and 1,749 receiving yards broke both of Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Irvin’s single-season Cowboys records in those metrics. However, the 25-year-old wide receiver hasn’t attended a single second of the Cowboys’ offseason program, including training camp, as he has been holding out for a new contract prior to the 2024 season, the final year of his rookie contract.
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said he didn’t have a “sense of urgency” to rush to get Lamb’s deal done with only a few weeks until the start of the regular season about a week ago, but it appears he may have changed his stance on that.
Dallas’ front office and Lamb’s representation spoke on the phone on Thursday prior to the team’s departure to Las Vegas for their second preseason game in an effort to get a deal, according to The Dallas Morning News. Per the Dallas Morning News’ reporting, the Cowboys offered Lamb “slightly under $33 million per season.”
That number would slot Lamb in as the second-highest-paid receiver in the NFL on an average per year salary basis, just ahead of Eagles wideout A.J. Brown ($32 million APY) and just…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-08-17 14:39:20
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