CeeDee Lamb has agreed a four-year, $136m contract extension with the Dallas Cowboys following long-running negotiations over the huge receiver’s future.
NFL Community reported that Lamb will obtain $100m in assured cash and a $38m signing bonus, together with his new deal making him the second-highest paid non-quarterback in NFL historical past.
Justin Jefferson made historical past earlier this offseason when the Minnesota Vikings star huge receiver agreed a four-year, $140m deal, incomes him $35m per 12 months.
Lamb quashed any doubts over his potential to rise as a No 1 weapon in Dallas final season when he made 135 catches for 1,749 yards, each single-season staff information, and 12 touchdowns.
It marked a 3rd successive 1,000 yards marketing campaign since he put up 935 yards as a rookie in 2020, Lamb having arrived because the seventeenth total pick of Oklahoma.
Lamb has been away from the staff since OTAs this summer season whereas trying to iron out a brand new deal, the method of which bumped into an ungainly snag when proprietor Jerry Jones advised reporters he didn’t have “any urgency to get it done” in the beginning of August.
Urgency or not, it’s performed. With the brand new deal the Cowboys tie down their star weapon forward of one other expectation-ridden season, one wherein head coach Mike McCarthy faces additional stress after January’s disappointing playoff exit to the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
Quarterback Dak Prescott additionally stays in wait of a brand new deal as he enters a contract 12 months, the no-trade clause in his present deal leaving him primed to hit free company in 2025.
Star move rusher Micah Parsons, who has 40.5 sacks over three seasons since getting into the NFL, is in the meantime due a pay-day of his personal. How a lot influence Lamb’s extension, and a possible Prescott extension, may need on that is still to be seen.
