You can put all the drama to bed. For now, at least. It was reported on Wednesday afternoon that George Pickens has officially signed the franchise tag that the Dallas Cowboys placed on him earlier this offseason. The value of it is just south of $28M for this season.
There has been some, um, fanfare around this situation for the better part of a week. In case you were unaware here is what happened over the last seven days:
It has been about six full days since all of that dust settled and there was still no reported signing of the tag despite the Cowboys beginning voluntary workouts on Monday. This wasn’t quite the case of idle hands, but people were starting to wonder what was going on.
We can put all of that to rest, though. Some might offer that that this could be a precursor to Pickens getting traded now that he is formally under contract. The Cowboys have said that they have no interest in doing this.