On a personal level, the Jones family loves Elliott and wants him to stick around. Dallas can not only pay Pollard with that money but also cover the first-year cap hit of a mid-round rookie running back. Needing about $10.1 million to fund a potential franchise tag for RB Tony Pollard, there’s a clear financial incentive to make Elliott a June-1st cut. It would need to be a significant one because the team has at least one major reason to want nearly every dollar they can get back from Zeke’s contract. There’s talk that Elliott is willing to take a pay cut to stay in Dallas. RB Ezekiel Elliott $4.86 million (pre-6/1) Even if the idea of a line with Tyron and Steele at the tackles and Tyler at left guard would be exciting, counting on Tyron to hold up his side of the plan is a liability Dallas can no longer afford. He can’t be trusted to get on the field anymore and eats up far too much of the team’s cap. While there’s still good reason to think Smith could be productive when healthy, those times are just too few and far between now.
But with Steele only a restricted free agent and likely returning, Dallas has a capable starting pair of tackles for at least next year.
Tyron might have more of a chance if there was greater concern about Terence Steele’s return. The fact that Tyler Smith appears ready to move forward as the permanent left tackle only further jeopardizes his elder. Who else, right? After another season with significant missed time and offering the most potential cap relief of any player on the roster, Smith’s future in Dallas is in doubt.
Who are the guys whose contracts and performance levels have them on or near the chopping block? We’ll look at what the Cowboys can save by either making the player an outright cut or designating them with the June-1st provision, which creates more space this year but defers some dead money to 2024. Somebody, and probably a few bodies, will lose their current job in the name of financial flexibility. But those same triggers were pulled a year ago and didn’t stop the Cowboys from releasing OT La’el Collins and practically giving away WR Amari Cooper for a combined $26 million in cap relief.Ĭurrently over the cap and with some significant work needed to improve, or even just maintain last year’s roster, Dallas will need more than what it can get from restructures. Dallas will assuredly do some restructuring on the contracts of QB Dak Prescott, G Zack Martin, and other fixtures on the roster. Granted, there are other ways to create cap space. Below are five of the most likely candidates to be salary cap casualties. They’ll need to make several moves to create spending room for the spring and summer, and some of these moves will likely be releasing current talent for cap relief. The Dallas Cowboys are heading into the 2023 offseason roughly $7 million over the salary cap.
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