As the Dallas Cowboys training camp nears its conclusion in Oxnard, everything about CeeDee Lamb has stayed mostly unchanged from the camp’s inception.
The Cowboys have not yet given their wide receiver a contract extension on the eve of the team’s second preseason game. In fairness, Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons are also ineligible for extensions and do not currently have any.
Jerry Jones’s remarks in the public last week regarding urgency—both the initial one and the one in which he took it back—have generated a lot of discussion about Lamb’s predicament. Other wide receivers in the NFL, such as Ja’Marr Chase of Cincinnati and Brandon Aiyuk of San Francisco
It is unclear whether there is indeed a conclusion to all of this. However, on Friday, The Dallas Morning News published an article that contained some real statistics. The DMN claims that the Cowboys are paying Lamb less than $33 million annually.
According to a person with knowledge of the negotiations who spoke to The Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys are giving the receiver just under $33 million a season.
It is unknown what Lamb is trying to find.
With an average salary of about $33 million each season, he would be the second-highest wide receiver in the NFL, behind Justin Jefferson of the Vikings ($35 million). Additionally, it moves Lamb ahead of A.J. Brown of the Eagles ($32 million per season).
Jefferson inked the biggest non-quarterback contract in June, securing a four-year, $140 million contract with a $110 million guarantee.
For a non-quarterback, Lamb is not aiming for the biggest contract possible.
During the team’s inaugural news conference on July 27, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones stated that was what Lamb desired. However, Jones also stated that Lamb had responded to Jones, stating such was not the case.
It is interesting to note that he had to get in touch with Lamb to clarify that this was not the case after Stephen Jones made a public statement regarding something that Lamb desired. Was Stephen making a sincere error there? posing for the cameras in the media? Although it is evident that we do not know, if it was truly deliberate, it hardly seems like a good idea to publicly mislead people about something like this. We are unsure if it was or was not for the record.
Is there really a significant difference between Justin Jefferson’s $2 million annual salary and what is being made in Minnesota? That must not be the case. That would be such a small matter if it were.
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