Lately, Dallas Cowboys vast receiver CeeDee Lamb and quarterback Dak Prescott each publicly campaigned for Cowboys proprietor and common supervisor Jerry Jones to “please determine a approach” to pay vast receiver George Pickens “each greenback that he deserves.”
Pickens will spend the upcoming season enjoying for the Cowboys on the franchise tag price roughly $27.3M. Throughout an look on the FanDuel TV “Up & Adams” program, Jones despatched a powerful message to Pickens concerning the 25-year-old’s future.
Jerry Jones: George Pickens can earn an excellent greater contract from Cowboys
“He can come out right here and have the yr that he is gifted sufficient and mentally ready to have, and that contract [could] be lots greater than it will have been,” Jones said about Pickens.
The Cowboys acquired Pickens from the Pittsburgh Steelers within the spring of 2025, and he recorded 93 receptions for 1,429 yards and 9 touchdowns throughout his first season with Dallas. Nevertheless, a number of the red flags concerning Pickens’ character that hovered over him throughout his Pittsburgh tenure appeared to follow him to Dallas.
The notion exists that the Cowboys could not belief Pickens to stay on his greatest conduct and keep absolutely devoted to the trigger sufficient to ensure him a boatload of cash past the 2026 season. Whereas Cowboys govt vp Stephen Jones insisted earlier this week that the staff’s “final objective” is to lock Pickens down with a multiyear deal, some think Dallas is already ready to retain Pickens’ rights for 2027 by way of the franchise tag.
Jerry Jones needed to have a motivated George Pickens as a part of the 2026 Cowboys
Throughout the present section, Jerry Jones hinted that he hasn’t but determined whether or not to maintain the 2027 tag unattached for Pickens.
“On a private foundation,” Jerry Jones added, “contract, no contract, I have been as motivated within the pursuit of a contract as I’ve been after I received the contract. And so there’s a entire lot of human make-up that that pursuit of doing higher in order that it will likely be higher is a greater motivator.”
Briefly, Jerry Jones clearly needs Pickens to “answer all those questions” earlier than the Cowboys make a multiyear monetary dedication to the wideout.
