Cowboys free agent: Donovan Wilson returning to staff on 3-year, $24M deal

The Dallas Cowboys are conserving certainly one of their most essential free brokers.

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  RJ Ochoa
  
• on March 14, 2023 9:36 am

The Dallas Cowboys are on the board.

As we strategy (when it comes to the timing of this writing) the 24 hour mark of authorized tampering within the NFL, the Cowboys have already seen two gamers discover new properties elsewhere. Connor McGovern is headed to the Buffalo Bills and Luke Gifford is headed to the Tennessee Titans. In case you did not know we are tracking all free agency things for you right here.

Whereas the Cowboys have but to herald an exterior free agent, they’ve at all times been about prioritizing their very own. This was evident lately once they positioned the franchise tag on Tony Pollard, however Pollard is now not the one participant locked in for extra time at The Star.

On Tuesday morning, we acquired the information that security Donovan Wilson is returning to the Cowboys on a three-year deal value as much as $24M. In line with NFL Community, the primary two years are totally assured at $13.5M.

This can be a massive win for the Cowboys. Retaining Wilson has felt unlikely for all the offseason given his stellar play this previous season the place he led the staff in tackles and was the tone-setter for the protection.

It was final offseason when the Cowboys surprisingly stored each Jayron Kearse and Malik Hooker in free company which can also be partly why conserving Wilson round felt so unlikely. We aren’t lengthy faraway from the Cowboys approaching the security place in a slightly cavalier means, and now right here we’re with them handing out three second contracts to the place in back-to-back offseasons.

The Cowboys protection has been an enormous cause for the staff’s success over the past two seasons and Donovan Wilson is an enormous cause for that. It’s incredible to see him sticking round.

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