{"id":461019,"date":"2026-02-08T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:59:08","slug":"report-cowboys-expected-to-franchise-tag-star-wr-george-pickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461019\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cowboys expected to franchise tag star WR George Pickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Jones has no plans of letting George Pickens leave Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are expected to place the franchise tag on the star receiver, ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2020288020877087221?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Saturday, effectively keeping him off the market.<\/p>\n<p>The tag can be applied between Feb. 17 and March 3, and would give Pickens $28 million guaranteed next season, <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/franchise-transition-and-rfa-tenders#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per<\/a> Over the Cap.<\/p>\n<p>Pickens is coming off the best season of his career, posting highs of 93 catches, 1,429 yards and nine touchdowns en route to being name to his first Pro Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas acquired the star wideout from Pittsburgh last off-season, and while the tag is just a one-year tender, Jones hopes to keep Pickens for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m talking to George all the time by virtue of my excitement for him,&#8221; Jones told the team&#8217;s website. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to getting things worked out so George can be a Cowboy a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott also hopes he can continue to throw to Pickens for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it must be done,&#8221; Prescott said at the Pro Bowl. &#8220;I think obviously from Jerry to everybody down understands that &#8230; We&#8217;ve got to find a way to keep him here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones has no plans of letting George Pickens leave Dallas. The Cowboys are expected to place the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-461019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}