{"id":26906,"date":"2025-07-28T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26906\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:03:07","slug":"jake-ferguson-ex-wisconsin-player-signs-cowboys-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26906\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Ferguson, ex-Wisconsin player, signs Cowboys contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/85343476007-gpg-packers-training-camp-day-1-072325-618-ttm.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Packers&#8217; Xavier McKinney wants to elevate game after All-Pro season<\/p>\n<p>Safety Xavier McKinney had a historic season in his first year with the Green Bay Packers but plans to continually grow his game.<\/p>\n<p>Former University of Wisconsin star Jake Ferguson has gotten a big payday, signing a four-year extension with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" data-autotag=\"7af2161d-a8dd-41a5-87e2-32eb5b028473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/cowboys-sign-jake-ferguson-to-four-year-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the team announced July 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new deal is worth $52 million and includes a $12 million signing bonus, with $30 million in guaranteed money. Ferguson&#8217;s pact will make him the highest-paid tight end in the franchise&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s money, but it doesn&#8217;t change things,&#8221; Ferguson said. &#8220;I still have to get out there and prove, and work my tail off. \u2026 I don&#8217;t wanna be anywhere else. It&#8217;s a privilege to wear this star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cowboys TE Jake Ferguson on signing a new contract: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be anywhere else. It\u2019s a privilege to wear this star. \u2026 I know what I\u2019m capable of and I know what I want to do this year. That doesn\u2019t change if there\u2019s a $100 million or zero.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BKs2BRRIml\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BKs2BRRIml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Machota (@jonmachota) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmachota\/status\/1949584245749661792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was a fourth-round pick in the 2022 draft. In three seasons with the Cowboys, he has 149 catches for 1,429 yards over 47 games. However, last season, none of his 59 receptions were touchdowns and he missed three games due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson caught five of his seven career touchdowns in 2023, when he finished with 761 yards receiving and 71 catches.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers&#8217; Xavier McKinney wants to elevate game after All-Pro season Safety Xavier McKinney had a historic season in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[620,634,64,63,707,4762,163,6167,1234,26139,596,1910,19982,44,593,323,451,439,85,635],"class_list":["post-26906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-ferguson","tag-football","tag-jake","tag-jake-ferguson","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}