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Tyron Smith to retire from NFL after rejoining Cowboys on ceremonial deal – Todd Archer, ESPN

The Dallas Cowboys and Tyron Smith will get together for the left tackle to call it a career.

Nearly two months after Zack Martin retired, another Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman has decided to walk away from the game in eight-time Pro Bowl left tackle Tyron Smith.

Smith will sign a ceremonial deal with the Cowboys on Wednesday in order to retire with the team that took him No. 9 overall in the 2011 draft.

Smith played 12 of his 13 seasons with the Cowboys, ending his career with the New York Jets in 2024. He started all 171 career games he played and was named to the Pro Bowl from 2013-19 and 2021.

It is possible Martin and Smith could be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame when they are eligible for the first time in 2030.

Smith was a Day 1 starter who quickly established himself as one of the game’s best blindside blockers. He began his career by protecting Tony Romo and he ended it with Aaron Rodgers as his quarterback.

In 2011, Smith became the first offensive lineman selected in the first round by the Cowboys since 1981 when they took Howard Richards. In the next three years, the Cowboys selected Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick (2013) and Martin (2014) in the first round, forming one of the best offensive lines in the NFL.

Ashton Jeanty Details Meeting With Cowboys, Jerry Jones Ahead of NFL Draft – Eva Geitheim, SI.com

Ashton Jeanty discusses the Cowboys and the draft.

Jeanty acknowledged it would be “great” to play for the Cowboys, who hold the No. 12 pick in the upcoming draft.

“It would be great,” Jeanty said on the Up & Adams Show. “It would be a special opportunity, really to play for any team in the NFL would be great. Just the fact that I grew up here, a little different, but all opportunities, any team would be great.”

Jeanty also told Kay Adams about the meeting he had with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, sharing that they talked about Super Bowls during the meeting.

“It went well,” Jeanty told Adams. “We was just talking it up, talking football, talking about Super Bowls.”

Adams asked: Was he what you thought he’d be like? Like a larger than life cartoon character?”

“Oh yeah. For sure,” Jeanty responded. “I came in the room, he was holding this [boxing] championship belt and was just looking at it. I was like, ‘where is this gonna go?’”

NFL Draft: McMillan, Golden or Egbuka? Cowboys have crucial decision to make at wide receiver – Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Dallas could be zeroing in on wide receiver in round one, but which one will they take?

During the draft process, the Cowboys have put in extensive work on a large handful of receivers, including just about every name at the top of the draft. They hosted Texas’ Matthew Golden for an individual 30-visit on April 10 and Arizona’s Tetairoa McMillan for an individual 30-visit on April 11 in addition to hosting Missouri’s Luther Burden III and Ohio State’s Emeka Egbuka among others during their 30-visit weekend on April 4-5.

If every receiver still remains on the board when the Cowboys are on the clock with the No. 12 pick, it won’t be an easy decision for the war room to land on one player. Aside from Travis Hunter’s two-way ability, the Cowboys have hosted each of the top four receivers for visits in recent weeks in McMillan, Golden, Egbuka and Burden. Which one makes the most sense?

Tetairoa McMillan, Arizona

Why it would make sense: One of the freakiest vertical receivers in the draft class, McMillan could bring the athleticism that made him one of the top high school volleyball recruits in the country to the field to give Dallas a true possession threat at wide receiver that it hasn’t had since Dez Bryant. His size at 6-foot-5, 212 pounds could make 50/50 contested catches at the NFL level feel more like 80/20 situations for Dak Prescott. He would provide an immediate impact to the offense without overlapping CeeDee Lamb’s specialities in the receiving game.

Matthew Golden, Texas

Why it wouldn’t make sense: If you’re taking a receiver in the first round, you’re taking someone you know will provide immediate production. With Golden, he failed to post 1,000 receiving yards in any of his three collegiate seasons despite playing 16 games for Texas last season. When the moment is big, Golden shows up and provides clutch performances without question. But would Dallas have that same reliable presence on a random Sunday afternoon in, say, Carolina?

2025 NFL Draft: Cowboys address possibility of trading up, down – Patrik Walker, DallasCowboys.com

The Cowboys traded back in the first round last year and ended up winning the deal, landing Cooper Beebe and Tyler Guyton.

“I don’t necessarily see us moving up, the way the board’s coming together,” said executive vice president of player personnel Stephen Jones to 105.3FM the Fan on Tuesday.

Jones then leaned into the greater probability of an aforementioned potential move down to begin the Brian Schottenheimer roster era, but it sounds more likely the Cowboys stay put where they are and pull the trigger on a player they view as a future megastar. After all, they’ve got some experience with hitting big when they swing within the immediate post-top 10 window.

“[I] could see a situation where we’d move down,” said Jones. “But you also look at that pick, and we’ve had some good things happen to us just outside of the top 10 with DeMarcus Ware, Micah Parsons and Zack Martin — Hall of Fame-type players — that fall to you, and you just pick them. That very well could be the case in this draft.”

For reference, Ware, Parsons and Martin were selected 11th-overall, 12th-overall and 16th-overall, respectively, though the selection of Parsons was preceded by a trade down that sent the 10th-overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for the 12th-overall pick.

The Eagles selected Heisman Trophy winning receiver DeVonta Smith, the Cowboys grabbed Parsons after missing out on Jaycee Horn and Patrick Surtain, and the rest is history.

When they go on the clock this time around on Thursday, April 24, the Cowboys will have a shot at doing something special, but only they know what that’ll be; and not until the exact moment when they’re faced with making the decision.