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Dallas Cowboys urged to trade for explosive WR before NFL Draft – Randy Gurzi, Sports Illustrated
Blockbuster trade moves are what people are dreaming about.
The Dallas Cowboys have made several additions this offseason but they still have a strong need at wide receiver.
As good as CeeDee Lamb has been, the Cowboys don’t have a consistent No. 2 wide receiver. With a subpar NFL free agency class, the expectation is that they could look to the upcoming NFL Draft to fill the void.
There’s another option as well, which would be adding someone through a trade and Ian Valentino of The 33rd Team has a big name in mind. Valentino brought up four trade ideas he would like to see before the draft, and has Dallas trading for Tyreek Hill.
Hill has voiced frustration in the direction the Miami Dolphins are headed, which has his name being floated as a trade piece. Valentino says the Cowboys could land him without using their first round pick, allowing them to still add a game-changing running back.
”After a decade of avoiding free agency splurges, Jerry Jones can drop a hammer by making such a gutsy investment into Hill. It shouldn’t cost him a first-round pick, either, meaning he can add a star tailback and Hill. Dallas would surely need to extend Hill’s contract to ease his future cap hits, but the Cowboys finally have the cap flexibility to not stress it.” — Valentino, The 33rd Team
Such a move would be a splash and could be enough to put Dallas back into the contender conversation. It’s just difficult seeing Jerry and Stephen Jones suddenly throwing caution to the wind and going for the home run.
Mailbag: Trade Parsons for top draft pick? – Mickey Spagnola & Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys.com
Though it shouldn’t seriously be considered, here is another trade hypothetical.
Okay guys, I have been sending in questions for years but have never had one answered. So I want your opinion on my draft idea. I love Micah Parsons, but I don’t think the Cowboys can pay three players at the top of their positions. My idea is to trade Parsons to the Titans for the No. 1 pick and keep our pick at 12, take Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter and then see what falls to 12. Imagine the salary cap upside. Am I crazy here? – Michael Mortensen/ Tampa, FL
Mickey: You are not crazy and applaud thinking outside the box. But I don’t think your scenario is realistic. The Titans are not going to give up the first pick in the draft for just Micah Parsons. Plus, he’s in the final year of his contract, and his cap hit of a guaranteed $24 million would far exceed what the Titans would have to pay the first pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.
You are going to have to sweeten that deal with at least 2025 and 2026 first round picks. And the Titans would probably ask for more since they would also need to renegotiate that final year of his contract. Hey, but at least you got your question answered.
Tommy: Well, they are going to spend the money, they just haven’t yet. I think that salary cap room was made available so that the Cowboys can do what they’ve done for years: Take care of their own. Think about the players that have extensions coming up in the near future: Micah Parsons, Tyler Smith, DaRon Bland. They needed the space to be able to fit those contracts in, and those restructures help them be able to afford that. Plus, you add in the Osa Odighizuwa deal as well as the other additions they’ve made in free agency, and they’re able to have the flexibility to spend how they’re wanting to spent, although it may not be the big money splashes that some may be hoping for.
What’s next for Trey Lance? CFL’s Roughriders reportedly add former 49ers, Cowboys QB to 2025 negotiation list – Cody Benjamin, CBS Sports
The former Cowboys QB may be heading to another professional football league.
Four years after he was the No. 3 overall pick in the NFL Draft, Trey Lance is without a team, drawing little interest as a free agent this offseason. An opportunity awaits the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback across the border, however, as the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders added Lance to their negotiation list this week, according to TSN.
The move gives the Roughriders exclusive rights to negotiate a prospective contract with Lance, provided the former North Dakota State standout is interested. CFL teams are permitted to name up to 45 players to the negotiating list, and each of those players are eligible to negotiate a contract as long as they aren’t currently under contract with another team or league. In Lance’s case, as a free agent, he could sign with the Roughriders immediately, if he so desired.
Last seen as the Dallas Cowboys’ No. 3 quarterback, Lance does have family ties to the Roughriders. His father, Carlton, once played one season as a cornerback for Saskatchewan, earning CFL All-Rookie honors.
Trey Lance, meanwhile, has gone from potential face of the 49ers to afterthought backup in his young NFL career. San Francisco traded up to select him in 2021, tabbing him the successor to Jimmy Garoppolo, but injuries limited the Minnesota native to eight games over his first two seasons. He was then traded to the Cowboys after Brock Purdy’s emergence as the 49ers’ unlikely starter, spending the last two years behind both Dak Prescott and Cooper Rush in Dallas, where he appeared in just four total games.
Cowboys slide in ESPN’s post-free agency NFL Power Rankings – Ali Jawad, Cowboys Wire
It may not come as a surprise, but Dallas’ free agency ranking isn’t the best.
Unlike last offseason, the Dallas Cowboys were much busier during the 2025 NFL Free Agency period. As it stands, Dallas has welcomed 10 new faces to its team, eight of which were signed, while the other two were acquired via trade. The Cowboys elected to go with short-term value, with eight different players agreeing to contracts of two years or less, while five of the overall acquisitions were former first-round selections.
Despite being more active in the open market, the Cowboys, ranked 18th in ESPN’s way-to-early power rankings in February, dropped three spots to 21st in the recent Post-Free Agency Rankings. The decline can be attributed to several factors, including insufficient financial investment in roster upgrades and a loss of key players as veterans DeMarcus Lawrence, Jourdan Lewis, and Brandin Cooks moved to other teams.
While the Cowboys’ free agency approach was a bit quieter compared to other teams, one player who gained attention as an under-the-radar move by ESPN Cowboys reporter Todd Archer was DT Solomon Thomas. The veteran was the only external signing to receive a contract beyond one year, agreeing to a two-year deal for $6 million earlier this month.
The Cowboys did not lay out a big financial investment in Thomas (just $3 million guaranteed), yet he can fill a number of roles in Matt Eberflus’ defense and in the locker room. He played for new defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton with the Jets, so he can help teach what the new position coach wants. He has also been productive with 8.5 sacks over the past two seasons.
Mainly, Thomas’ experience will be a plus for a defense that lost some leadership in free agency and potentially needed a fresh voice anyway – Todd Archer
A former 2017 first-round pick, Thomas, who is entering his ninth season, has played for three teams over his first eight years: the San Francisco 49ers, the Las Vegas Raiders, and most recently, the New York Jets, where, as Archer noted, he played for new Cowboys’ defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton.
