Dallas Cowboys 2025 NFL intersaison forecast: the extension of Micah Parsons is looming with high issues

2024 season: 7-10, third of NFC East, missed qualifiers

Preview: Welcome to another successful off -season in Dallas. While 2024 presented extensions with fanfare and at the end of the end for Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb, 2025 is the off -season of Micah Parsons.

Parsons approaches the fifth year option of his recruit contract and due to an extension that could make him the best paid defender in football. He will earn 24 million dollars in 2025 on his fifth year option after an average of $ 4.3 million per year during the first four years of his recruit contract. His annual salary via an extension – if you are drawn up – will eclipse your previous income. Nick Bosa is the best paid defender in the NFL with an average annual salary of $ 34 million. Think of this neighborhood.

The cowboys did not conclude agreements with the latest prescott and LAMB offset before the training camp. They would probably like to settle the future of Parsons earlier this offseason. But these challenges alongside rotation plates in Dallas, it is not known how long an agreement will take. Do not make it a risk of poaching the franchise label in 2026.

Key -free agents

RG Zack Martin
Dt OSA ODIGHIZUWA
LB Eric Kendricks
Edge Demarcus Lawrence
Edge Chauncey Golston
RB Rico Dowdle
Wr Brandin Cooks
Wr Kavontae Turpin (limited)
QB Cooper Rush
QB Trey Lance
CB Jourdan Lewis

Who is in / out: Kendricks brought enormous value in 2024 as a cowboys leader for signing as a free agent on a one -year contract of $ 3 million. With Doubt, Demarvion Overshown, the 2025 season, it is an attractive option for Dallas to re-signate.

Odighizuwa is one of the rare light points on a defensive line which should also be a goal of off -season. That cowboys can afford to keep it is another question. Lawrence was a pillar of Dallas’s defense, but will be difficult to keep at 32 for cowboys short of ceiling.

On the offensive line, Martin eternal time probably ends in Dallas. He is should consider retiring After the ankle surgery at the end of the season at 34 if he does not test the free agents market. Dowdle emerged as lead and an option to lead the rear field again in 2025. Although the project can offer a better route for Dallas.

Executive vice-president Stephen Jones has identified Golston and Lewis as players, Cowboys would like to keep in addition to Dowdle and Ogizuwa.

Key needs for free agent

Offensive line
Defensive line (Run Stoppers)
Wide receiver
Back

Why the holes? Running the ball and stopping the race are the foundations of a successful football. The cowboys were unable to do so in 2024 (27th in the ground yards, 29th rogates on the soil authorized), hence their fall from the East of the East of the NFC to the playoffs. These are priorities 1 and 1a this offseason. This means upgrades to the two lines and the ball carrier.

After that, Dallas needs outdoor help in the game of passes in front of the All-Pro Ceedee lamb in 2023. The cooks could disappear, and neither he, Jalen Tolbert nor Kavontae Turpin are options Good faith n ° 2 of the NFL.

Do they have the money?

Cowboys cost approximately $ 2 million compared to the wage ceiling, which ranks 10 below in the NFL in terms of hood space, according to Spotrac. Dallas has several maneuvers at stake and should restructure Prescott and Lamb offers to create more space. But look forward to another off -season by Jerry and Stephen Jones crying for salary caps.

Notable potential cuts

RT Terence Steele
Dt Mazi Smith

Why they might have left: Steele is not part of the solution for cowboys offensive line problems. Per pro football focus, he ranks among the worst in the league entry into the blocking of passes and its rivals First round recruit bench Tyler Guyton For the biggest disappointment on the Dallas offensive line. Steele approaches the third year of an extension of $ 86.8 million over five years and could provide moderate ceiling relief if it is released.

Smith is a great reason for Dallas’ struggles against the race. First round points in 2023, Smith did not meet expectations to have All-Pro on the rise. In 20 games in two seasons, he has only seven plated for the loss and two bags. For pffIt ranks 275th on 279 defensive plated classified since its entry into the league. Given the investment in the first round and its relatively low hit ($ 3.6 million), Dallas can give it another look for a third season. But don’t be surprised if they cut their losses.

Draft choice

1st round: n ° 12
2nd round: n ° 44
3rd round: n ° 76
5th round
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6th round
6th round (compensatory)
7th round (chefs)

Good draft adjustment

Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State

Why him? The death of the ball carrier in the first round is overestimated. Cowboys fans will claim Jeanty if it is available at No. 12, and for a good reason. When he is in good health, Christian McCaffrey denounced the 49ers offensive since his arrival in San Francisco. No one criticizes the selection of Jahmyr Gibbs by Detroit in this same machine at N ° 12 in 2023.

Jeanty has the type of increase to be the same type of difference for a deductible that desperately needs it in the back field. A finalist of the Heisman trophy, Jeanty threatened the harcipitation record for Barry Sanders’s NCAA of Barry Sanders while making an average of 7 yards per race and totaling 30 affected. And the cowboys are always more marketable when they have a star totaling the ball. How could Jerry Jones resist?

Ceedee Lamb is such a dynamic player, we look at a return of 101, 1 194, Yard, a 6-TD return and mumble “out of year”. It will be better in 2025. But Dallas needs impact objectives after the lamb; No one else in this offense even arrived at 615 yards by receiving. A sewing target, a slot machine, an outdoor field stretcher – Dallas should have all types of receivers on its list of intersaison races. –Scott Pianowski