CeeDee Lamb has agreed a four-year, $136m contract extension with the Dallas Cowboys following long-running negotiations over the vast receiver’s future.
NFL Community reported that Lamb will obtain $100m in assured cash and a $38m signing bonus, along 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 vast receiver agreed a four-year, $140m deal, incomes him $35m per 12 months.
Lamb quashed any doubts over his capability to rise as a No 1 weapon in Dallas final season when he made 135 catches for 1,749 yards, each single-season group data, 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 general pick of Oklahoma.
Lamb has been away from the group since OTAs this summer time whereas making an attempt to iron out a brand new deal, the method of which bumped into an ungainly snag when proprietor Jerry Jones informed reporters he didn’t have “any urgency to get it done” originally of August.
Urgency or not, it’s carried out. 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 go 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 impression Lamb’s extension, and a possible Prescott extension, might need on that is still to be seen.
