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Cowboys defensive tackle Quinnen Williams looks on before a game against the Commanders last season. AP Photo\/Daniel Kucin Jr.<\/p>\nCowboys defensive lineman Quinnen Williams could be on the verge of a huge payday.<\/p>\n
The former Jet, acquired by Dallas through a trade in 2025, still has two years left on a four-year, $96 million deal, but \u201che\u2019s at the top\u201d of Jerry Jones\u2019 contract talk list.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys gave up a haul for Williams \u2014 a 2026 second-round pick, a 2027 first-round pick and defensive tackle Mazi Smith \u2014 and want him to stick around for longer than 2 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n
Cowboys defensive tackle Quinnen Williams looks on before a game against the Commanders last season. AP Photo\/Daniel Kucin Jr.<\/p>\n
Williams, who spent over six years with the Jets after they selected him with the No. 3 pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, hopes for the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely want to be here for the long haul,\u201d Williams said during a news conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\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
Winning is certainly possible for the Cowboys this year, largely because of an impressive defensive line.<\/p>\n
Williams and Kenny Clark make for one of the best defensive tackle units in the league, while guys like DeMarvion Overshown and Donovan Ezeiruaku have shown ability to get after the passer.<\/p>\n
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Quinnen Williams speaks to the media at OTA before the Jets\u2019 2025 season. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n
In seven games with the Cowboys last season, Williams had 21 tackles, 1 1\/2 assists, and one interception.<\/p>\n
While winning is possible without a new contract, the trend of defensive tackles getting huge deals this offseason will surely help Williams\u2019 negotiations. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones noted Tuesday that the club has interest in beginning negoations during training camp. <\/p>\n
Most notably, Jalen Carter recently signed a four-year, $152 million extension with the Eagles and Jeffery Simmons a three-year, $105.8 million deal with the Titans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just phenomenal to see the impact that my position, defensive tackle, is making,\u201d Williams said. \u201cYou always see the teams that\u2019re in the Super Bowl have D-tackles with Seattle, the Eagles and Kansas City in a few years. Those guys have been very effective and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defensive tackles such as the Buccaneers\u2019 Vita Vea and the Bengals\u2019 Dexter Lawrence II have also set precedents of demanding a trade when a desired number is not shown.<\/p>\n
While the two years left on Williams\u2019 contract lower his leverage, it is a possibility Jones and the Cowboys will at least think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys defensive lineman Quinnen Williams could be on the verge of a huge payday. The former Jet, acquired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103,80,20433,154],"class_list":["post-391679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-nfl","tag-quinnen-williams","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391679","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=391679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}