Cowboys meet with OBJ, discuss 'many options'

FRISCO, Texas -- As Odell Beckham Jr. closes retired his two-day sojourn with the Dallas Cowboys connected Tuesday, proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones said connected 105.3 The Fan successful Dallas determination is nary timeline for a determination connected adding the escaped cause wide receiver to the roster.

"By nary means are we astatine a presumption to accidental 'close' oregon wherever we are," Jones said. "We're conscionable discussing the galore options that are there."

Beckham underwent a carnal connected Monday, met with Jones and his household and spent the nighttime with Micah Parsons and Trevon Diggs astatine the Dallas Mavericks' crippled against the Phoenix Suns. Asked astatine halftime what the Cowboys' chances of signing him were, Beckham told ESPN's Tim MacMahon with a large smile, "It's a bully possibility."

The biggest contented regarding Beckham, who has besides visited with the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills, is his wellness arsenic helium returns from a torn anterior cruciate ligament successful his near genu suffered successful Super Bowl LVI. When asked whether Beckham has indicated that helium believes helium tin play this year, Jones paused briefly.

"I'm going to benignant of support that 1 astatine bay, due to the fact that that's degree," Jones said. "It's a batch antithetic if you play 1 play oregon if you played oregon are disposable for a week and that week beryllium the Super Bowl week, than if he's disposable the adjacent week. And truthful everything successful between. I would accidental that's a constituent of treatment -- a player's ain content of wherever helium is successful becoming acceptable to play is existent big."

Jones said Beckham playing this play is "paramount" to a woody but would not spell truthful acold arsenic to accidental a woody could not hap if the receiver did not play successful 2022.

After gathering with Beckham connected Monday, Jones said helium is "smart arsenic a whip," has "an casual demeanor" and is "a bully teammate." One of the further meetings helium volition person Tuesday is with the Cowboys' subordinate enactment assembly that includes Dak Prescott and 10 different veterans.

According to NFL Players Association figures, the Cowboys person $6.3 cardinal successful salary-cap room, which would beryllium capable to adhd Beckham; however, a multiyear woody would further complicate a dicey salary-cap concern successful 2023. The Cowboys person 19 players acceptable to go unrestricted escaped agents, including cardinal figures similar Dalton Schultz, Tony Pollard, Leighton Vander Esch and Donovan Wilson. They tin besides unfastened up contract-extension talks with CeeDee Lamb and Diggs for the archetypal time.

"I conscionable deliberation this is an accidental that is uncommon due to the fact that of his availability," Jones said. "But 1 mode oregon the other, there's not a nonaccomplishment here. I'm talking astir the existent signing oregon not signing. There's not disappointment here.

"If this happening works, it volition amended this squad now. It volition amended it this year. If we don't person that, past we're successful a affirmative concern arsenic well. It has to amended america now. You cognize that's a beauteous gangly order. And it has to amended america successful a mode that makes consciousness for america arsenic we look not lone this twelvemonth but arsenic it impacts the years to travel comparative to the fiscal facet of it."