The Dallas Cowboys person concerns aft Odell Beckham Jr.'s carnal that his betterment from a torn near ACL successful the Super Bowl has not progressed capable to guarantee helium would play earlier mid-January, a root tells ESPN's Ed Werder.
There is simply a anticipation that signing Beckham, who is closing retired his two-day sojourn with the Cowboys connected Tuesday, would person nary payment until the 2023 season, the root added.
Beckham underwent a carnal connected Monday, met with Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones and his family, 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."
Jones remained noncommittal during an quality connected 105.3 The Fan successful Dallas connected Tuesday, but did accidental that Beckham playing this play is "paramount" to a woody perchance getting done without ruling it retired altogether.
"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," said Jones. "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."
Beckham, who has besides visited with the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills, is expected to conscionable Tuesday with 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 added. "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."
ESPN's Todd Archer contributed to this report
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