Cowboys restructure CeeDee Lamb deal and clear significant salary cap space
The Cowboys created $20M in salary cap space on Tuesday.
Next week is significant in the NFL as the legal tampering window will open and free agency will begin. The heavy assumption has been that neither of these things will impact the Dallas Cowboys all too much.
This is the case because the Cowboys have notoriously sat out of free agency (at least the early parts of it) for several years now. While that may still wind up being the case, the Cowboys are acting with some serious levels of proactivity right now.
On Tuesday afternoon the team locked down a new deal for defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa. What was significant about this was that they got it done without having to go the route of placing the franchise tag on him as some sort of placeholder, a move they have made in the past with other players.
Shortly after that it was reported that the Cowboys restructured CeeDee Lamb’s contract to create $20M in salary cap space.
The Cowboys have restructured the contract of Pro Bowl wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, creating $20 million of salary-cap space, according to sources.
— Todd Archer (@toddarcher) March 4, 2025
The Lamb restructure was anticipated. What is significant about it happening is that the restructure, a move that impacts Lamb in no way and is team-driven for this exact purpose, took place a week before all of the free agency activity. It does not necessarily mean that the Cowboys are going to go on some spending spree, but in the past we have seen them delay even these kinds of basic decisions until points where they could not provide as much opportunity to do this, that and the other.
Needless to say all of this feels a bit shocking to Cowboys fans as we have grown to expect the worst on some level, but perhaps the front office is serious about doing things a little bit differently.
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