Cowboys Predicted to Make $20 Million Contract Changes for Two Stars

To satisfy the salary cap, the Dallas Cowboys will have to make a lot of roster adjustments. Dallas has assembled a formidable roster, but keeping it together is challenging.

Jerry Jones, the owner, is fortunate to have options. ESPN reporter Todd Archer, who reported that the Cowboys are already preparing to restructure the contracts of guard Zack Martin and corner Trevon Diggs, went over some of those options.

“Zack Martin, an All-Pro guard, and Trevon Diggs, a cornerback who is returning from an ACL tear, have contracts that the Cowboys already plan to restructure, which could net them about $20 million in cap space,” Archer wrote on January 24. “They are also able to rework Terence Steele’s right tackle contract. Although they wouldn’t add that room until June, they can designate wide receiver Michael Gallup as a post-June 1 cut and gain $9.5 million.

The news that Gallup will be cut started circulating even before the 2023 season got underway. However, reorganizing Martin and Diggs’ agreement provides an alternative means of raising capital, and $20 million would be beneficial. As of right now, the Cowboys are expected to open the 2024 league season $11.5 million over the salary cap.

Martin and Diggs’ Current Deals

Diggs and Martin are in quite different positions, as evidenced by the fact that Spotrac has all the data for their current contract. While Martin is approaching the last year of a two-year contract, Diggs is beginning the second year of a five-year agreement.

Martin is sc

heduled to receive a salary of $18 million in 2024, having been granted a two-year contract in 2023. In order to lessen the impact of the cap, that salary has previously been granted with vacant years. But there’s more money to be made by transforming that base salary.

In the meantime, Diggs will get paid $11 million in 2024. He doesn’t have any void years or restructurings built in, so the Cowboys can divide the money in a few different ways.

Dallas has demonstrated in previous years how eager they are to reorganize. In light of Archer’s assessment, the timing of these next restructurings seems to be a matter of when rather than if.

Cowboys May Still Lose Key Players

It will be challenging even if Dallas can free up funds and possibly make fresh moves with the money. It’s not like the Cowboys are just conserving money; they have to pay wide receiver CeeDee Lamb a lot of money this offseason.

This might require veteran corner Stephon Gilmore to look for new housing. This spring, Gilmore will become a free agent; given his caliber of play, paying him might not be an option. At least, Mike D’Abate, an analyst for Sports Illustrated, believes that.

On January 21, D’Abate reported, “Dallas is entering the new league year with the intent of clearing cap space.” “[DaRon] Bland’s rise and his far more agreeable $1.06 million cap figure suggest that keeping Gilmore with the Cowboys may be eventually too costly.

Although it would be great to have Gilmore back, the Cowboys do have strength at CB in Diggs and Bland. While Gilmore leaving the Cowboys in 2024 is a possibility, don’t fully rule him out as one.

Journalist Evan Reier covers the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys for Heavy.com. He worked as a managing editor for Outsider and covered sports for the Montana Standard in the past.

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