2:08 AM ET
Todd ArcherESPN Staff Writer
- Covered NFL since 1997, Cowboys since 2003
- Previously covered Bengals and Dolphins
- Lives successful Dallas country with his woman and 2 children
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Let the Odell Beckham Jr. ticker commence.
The escaped cause wide receiver volition sojourn the Dallas Cowboys, his 3rd squad successful the past week, connected Monday and Tuesday astatine The Star successful Frisco, Texas, wherever helium volition acquisition a carnal and conscionable with ownership, coaches and players. He is scheduled to conscionable with the team's enactment council, a radical of 11 Cowboys players from varying presumption groups, connected Tuesday.
"I usually would accidental that anytime you tin make an affirmative commitment, a belief, I deliberation that's bully stuff, yes," proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones said. "In a concern that has a batch of science to it, I deliberation that's the case. I don't deliberation it's indispensable for america to person occurrence with this squad and successful the playoffs, but it would beryllium a positive. I privation this to work. I privation it to work. But that means I'm going to beryllium trying to marque it work. So I'm going to beryllium looking for reasons to do, not reasons not to do."
The archetypal portion of the sojourn is to cheque connected Beckham's health. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament successful his near genu successful Super Bowl LVI. While helium is believed to beryllium healthy, helium has not worked retired for either the New York Giants oregon Buffalo Bills. Jones would not get into what the Cowboys would inquire of Beckham.
"We privation to surely spot thing that gives america each accidental to person a large twelvemonth this twelvemonth with him," Jones said.
The adjacent portion would beryllium to enactment retired a contract. According to NFLPA figures, the Cowboys person $6.3 cardinal successful salary-cap space. They tin ever make much country by restructuring contracts if needed. Making a multiyear woody enactment would beryllium tricky. While the 2023 wage headdress fig has not been set, the Cowboys person $213 cardinal already committed to 41 players nether contract, according to Roster Management.
The Cowboys person 19 players acceptable to go unrestricted escaped agents erstwhile the play ends, including Tony Pollard, Dalton Schultz, Leighton Vander Esch and Donovan Wilson.
"We cognize wherever we are against adjacent year's headdress and the adjacent year's cap," enforcement vice president Stephen Jones said. "It's conscionable figuring retired wherever helium fits."
If helium fits contractually, past it's figuring retired however helium fits connected the offense.
In the past six weeks, the Cowboys discourtesy has been among the NFL's best, scoring 28 touchdowns. CeeDee Lamb has had 2 100-yard games successful the past month, and had 4 catches for 86 yards and a touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts connected Sunday night. Michael Gallup had his archetypal two-touchdowns crippled of the play Sunday, and 3 Cowboys moving backs scored touchdowns against the Colts: Pollard, Ezekiel Elliott and Malik Davis.
Why should Beckham articulation the Cowboys?
"I mean we're winning, look astatine us," Lamb said. I mean enactment yourself successful this discourtesy and benignant of envision it. We're distributing the shot precise good and I'm definite arsenic hellhole helium would emotion it. I'm sure."
The past big-time wide receiver the Cowboys added in-season was Amari Cooper successful a commercialized with the Raiders successful 2018. Cooper had six touchdowns and 2 games with astatine slightest 180 yards receiving aft joining Dallas.
Dak Prescott believes getting up to velocity would not beryllium an contented for Beckham and the Cowboys.
"When you're making a commercialized for a feline similar that, you cognize however talented helium is and they really expedite that by however talented they are successful creating space, being precise decisive successful their assemblage language," Prescott said. "And past conscionable for us, it's conscionable astir communicating with each other."
The Cowboys person not been shy astir wanting to adhd Beckham.
"We're trying to beryllium arsenic large arsenic we tin beryllium successful each aspect," Prescott said. "And evidently getting precocious into the twelvemonth with what we've got coming up conscionable successful our schedule, past evidently making a tally astatine the Super Bowl, you privation to marque definite you person arsenic galore weapons arsenic you can. You privation to marque definite afloat loaded successful each absorption and conscionable readying for the future."
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