{"id":50725,"date":"2022-08-20T02:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/of-course-its-likely-ezekiel-elliotts-last-year-in-dallas\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T02:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:56:36","slug":"of-course-its-likely-ezekiel-elliotts-last-year-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/of-course-its-likely-ezekiel-elliotts-last-year-in-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Of course it’s likely Ezekiel Elliott’s last year in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve noticed in recent days a smattering of reports regarding the possibility that running back Ezekiel Elliott is embarking on his final year with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

Of course he is.<\/p>\n

Elliott remains on the roster at a fully-guaranteed salary of $12.4 million only because the structure of the deal, negotiated in 2019 during a holdout, resulted in the 2022 salary becoming fully-guaranteed in 2021. If that payment hadn’t been guaranteed a year before 2022, the Cowboys wouldn’t have paid it.<\/p>\n

Starting next year, Elliott’s contract enters the non-guaranteed season. Surely, the Cowboys won’t want to pay him another $10 million in 2023. Unless he agrees to re-do his deal, he’ll undoubtedly be gone.<\/p>\n

It’s not news. It’s not a surprise. It’s obvious. It’s a function of the market at the position.<\/p>\n

Tony Pollard makes less than $1 million this year. Comes next year, the Cowboys likely will be more willing to pay Pollard than Elliott.<\/p>\n

Or maybe the Cowboys will simply draft someone else, like they did after they wished DeMarco Murray well after he set a franchise single-season rushing record in 2014 and, following the 2015 season, drafted Elliott.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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Getty Images We’ve noticed in recent days a smattering of reports regarding the possibility that running back Ezekiel Elliott is embarking on his final year with the Cowboys. Of course he is. Elliott remains on the roster at a fully-guaranteed salary of $12.4 million only because the structure of the deal, negotiated …<\/p>\n

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