{"id":391306,"date":"2026-07-30T00:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:14:13","slug":"quinnen-williams-wants-to-be-in-dallas-for-the-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391306\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinnen Williams wants to be in Dallas &#8220;for the long haul&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboys gave up two high draft picks to get Quinnen Williams from the Jets. The defensive lineman still has two years left on the four-year, $96 million deal he signed in 2019, but the Cowboys didn\u2019t give up what they gave up for 2 1\/2 seasons of Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Tuesday that the team wants to begin contract extension talks with Williams\u2019 representation during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s at the top of our list,\u201d Jones said. <\/p>\n<p>After 6 1\/2 seasons in New York, Williams has found a home in Dallas. He would like nothing better than to make it his final stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/quinnen-williams-extension-talks-cowboys-winning-22365695.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">definitely want to be here<\/a> for the long haul,\u201d Williams said Wednesday, via Joseph Hoyt of the Dallas Morning News. \u201cI definitely would love being here for the long haul, but I want to win, and that\u2019s really the only thing I\u2019m focused on is winning and getting this defense into the groove where we can win football games for this team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His price likely went up after Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter recently signed a four-year, $152 million deal following Jeffery Simmons\u2019 three-year, $105.8 million extension with the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool to see the guys get paid,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>Williams didn\u2019t know that the Cowboys had preliminary talks with his agent this offseason. He reiterated that he is focused only on helping the Cowboys win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys gave up two high draft picks to get Quinnen Williams from the Jets. The defensive lineman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-391306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391306","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=391306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}