The Dallas Cowboys have a long-term deal in place with offensive lineman Tyler Smith. It is massive.
The deal is reportedly worth $24M per year, in terms of the extension, for Smith. All told it is a 4-year
extension worth $96M with $81.2M guaranteed.
Todd France and Athletes First are the same team who the Cowboys went against in the Dak Prescott negotiations. That deal, the most recent one at least, went down the final minute of the eleventh hour. Unlike with Prescott, unlike with a lot of players recently, the Cowboys are taking take of Tyler Smith early.
Smith, the team’s 2022 first-round pick, is only one game into his fourth season with the franchise. He became eligible for an extension at the beginning of the offseason and the Cowboys appeared motivated to get a deal done with him throughout it, and particularly so once they traded away Micah Parsons.
Nobody wants to make everything about Parsons, but the reality is that everything the Cowboys do for a while will be tied to that trade contextually. Since sending Parsons to the Green Bay Packers the Cowboys have negotiated long-term deals with DaRon Bland, Hunter Luepke and now Tyler Smith. They have also expressed interest in bringing in a player like Jadeveon Clowney. We have said this before, but things do feel a bit different.
As it all relates to Tyler Smith, this is a no-brainer decision. He has been one of the very best guards in the NFL since first stepping into it, even though he played so much left tackle his rookie year, and now he is with the Cowboys for the foreseeable future.
