This Cowboys star is not actively pursuing an extension with team

Lamb was drafted in 2020, one yr earlier than Parsons. The previous is on the books for $17.99M in 2024 on his fifth-year possibility, however Parsons will little doubt have his possibility picked up this spring. 

That transfer will maintain him in place by means of the 2025 marketing campaign. In consequence, Lamb represents a extra urgent order of enterprise for Dallas.

Parsons acknowledged as a lot throughout a recent appearance on NFL Community’s Tremendous Bowl Stay. In consequence, he’s not aggressively pursuing an extension, one which is able to seemingly put him at or close to the highest of the pecking order amongst edge rushers. 

Lamb, too, won’t come low cost on his second contract; he has publicly acknowledged a need to become the NFL’s highest-paid receiver.

Lamb posted single-season franchise information for each receptions (135) and yards (1,749) in 2023, scoring a career-high 14 whole touchdowns alongside the way in which. The 24-year-old earned a first-team All-Professional nod together with a 3rd profession Professional Bowl invite in consequence, and he may command an AAV at or close to Tyreek Hill‘s market-setting $30M on his subsequent pact. 

Negotiations on that entrance will seemingly take priority over talks with Parsons, although the latter is amenable to hammering out a deal within the close to future.

“In the event that they’re prepared to speak a few deal and get a deal achieved, I’ll be tremendous excited,” Parsons mentioned. “ I’m able to be [with the] Cowboys for all times, that is the staff I needed to be with, that is the staff I wish to win a championship with.”

Parsons has racked up 40.5 sacks in his three seasons with the Cowboys, posting at the very least 13 in every marketing campaign. That consistency has earned the previous Defensive Rookie of the 12 months a variety of accolades (three whole All-Professional honors, three Professional Bowl nods) and upped his market worth. 

A brand new Parsons contract won’t kick in till 2026, by which period the sting market might have seen additional progress from what has already taken place. Nick Bosa acquired the league’s largest deal for a non-quarterback in September, inking a $34M-per-year 49ers extension with $122.5M assured.

Parsons will little doubt be aiming for a pact related or bigger in worth to Bosa’s when the time involves work out a mega-extension. That point will seemingly not come this offseason, although, or at the very least not till the Prescott and Lamb conditions achieve extra readability. 

In any case, developments on the Parsons entrance might be value monitoring given his significance to Dallas’ protection.