{"id":639945,"date":"2026-05-13T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:03:08","slug":"report-george-pickens-not-present-for-cowboys-voluntary-offseason-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639945\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: George Pickens not present for Cowboys&#8217; voluntary offseason work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-george-pickens-signs-franchise-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed his franchise tag<\/a> on April 29, and executive vice president Stephen Jones said soon after <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/stephen-jones-our-expectation-is-that-george-pickens-will-be-here-and-working\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the team expected<\/a> Pickens to show up for voluntary work.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was the first team workout for the Cowboys since Pickens signed the one-year, $27.3 million deal, and Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Pickens was not present.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is mandatory until June 16, so he can stay away until then without being fined.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys announced they will not negotiate a long-term deal with Pickens this offseason, and Jones has repeatedly said the team has \u201czero interest\u201d in trading Pickens.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys traded for Pickens a year ago, and he led the team in targets (137), catches (93), yards (1,429) and touchdowns (eight) in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens signed his franchise tag on April 29, and executive vice president Stephen Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-639945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}