{"id":177757,"date":"2026-02-24T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:15:22","slug":"dallas-cowboys-george-pickens-likely-to-be-franchise-tagged-per-stephen-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/177757\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys George Pickens likely to be franchise tagged per Stephen Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Cowboys are likely going to place the franchise tag on wide receiver George Pickens. Stephen Jones offered this bit of news from the NFL combine on Monday, and it hardly comes as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The window for NFL teams to place the franchise tag on players opened last week and officially closes on March 3rd. If the Cowboys want to keep Pickens around and don\u2019t have a long-term deal in place by then, well, obviously it makes sense to tag Pickens to at the very least buy time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As far as wide receivers are concerned, the franchise tag value is expected to come in around $28M once things are official and set in stone. That is south of the $30M APY that Pickens\u2019 representation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2026\/02\/22\/dallas-cowboys-george-pickens-contract-offseason-program-franchise-tag-stephen-jones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> hoped to get when he first joined the team, but it stands to reason that he would clear that on a hypothetical new deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It goes without saying that this is the biggest story going on with the Cowboys at the moment. Until Pickens has officially been tagged or has a new deal, it is going to be a thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brandon Aubrey is a thing too, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sunday evening brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloggingtheboys.com\/dallas-cowboys-free-agency\/197795\/brandon-aubrey-contract-negotiations-restricted-free-agency-tender-details\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> that the Cowboys are prepared to place a tender, whether a first- or second-round type, on Aubrey to protect themselves ahead of free agency should they not have a deal in place between now and then (this is a common theme).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys are likely going to place the franchise tag on wide receiver George Pickens. Stephen Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,26780,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-177757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-free-agency","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}