Former Cowboys CB Jourdan Lewis headed for Jaguars, becomes highest-paid nickel corner
Jourdan Lewis is headed to the Jaguars.
Jourdan Lewis is leaving the Dallas Cowboys.
Word broke on Monday, during the legal tampering window in its first hour, that he is headed to the Jacksonville Jaguars and will be the highest-paid nickel cornerback in the NFL.
In looking at all of the free agents to be on the Cowboys roster, the two that most fans wanted to see retained the most were Osa Odighizuwa and Jourdan Lewis. Dallas locked up the former last week before the franchise tag deadline but were unable to do so with Lewis. Money was, this is an assumption, likely an issue, especially with Lewis becoming the game’s highest-paid nickel corner. Jordan Schultz noted he is getting $30M over 3 years.
Lewis was one of the most veteran players on the Cowboys at this point as a third-round draft pick of the team in 2017. He has morphed over that time into one of the more reliable players of the last decade and has carved out quite a special spot in franchise history for himself.
The last few years have really seen Lewis prove how reliable and consistent he is, oftentimes at tasks that aren’t consistent themselves. He is the exact type of player you want on your team, on your defense and in your secondary in that he will do anything asked of him and to the highest possible level. He is this generation’s Orlando Scandrick in some sense.
It is difficult to watch him leave. He will be missed.
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