(Editor’s Note: Time to check the mail! The DallasCowboys.com staff writers answer your questions here in ‘Mailbag’ presented by Miller Lite.)<\/p>\n
I don’t understand all the one-year contracts. It seems to me they set the stage for the Cowboys being in the same place again this time next year. I get it in the case of older or injured players looking for a prove it contract, but why not sign someone like Cobie Durant, who is coming off his rookie contract, to a multi-year deal if you’re convinced he can help your team? \u2013 Russell White\/New Smyrna Beach, FL<\/p>\n
Nick: These guys like to bet on themselves, too. Trust me, if the Cowboys could’ve signed Cobie Durant for a two-year, $10 million deal, they probably would’ve. But Durant doesn’t want that because deep down he probably believes he’s still got one more chance for a big contract. So it’s important for him to come to Dallas, play well and parlay that into something a little more long-term. If Durant signs anything longer than a one-year deal at this point in his career, he’ll probably never have the shot for another big contract.<\/p>\n
Look back to last year, the Cowboys signed a few players to 1-year deals. Most notably was Javonte Williams, who was looking to prove himself as well. That certainly happened and he now got paid $8 million per season on a three-year deal. That worked for Javonte. But the Cowboys also signed Miles Sanders, Dante Fowler, Payton Turner, Israel Mukuamu, Rob Jones, Jack Sanborn and C.J. Goodwin to 1-year deals as well. It doesn’t appear as if any of those guys will be back with the Cowboys next year. So sometimes the 1-year deal can be just as beneficial to the team as the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Editor’s Note: Time to check the mail! The DallasCowboys.com staff writers answer your questions here in ‘Mailbag’ presented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1090,3486,3487,6349],"class_list":["post-224208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-mailbag","tag-news-nick-eatman","tag-news-patrik-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224208","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=224208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}