Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens didn\u2019t attend the early phases of the team\u2019s offseason workouts and he didn\u2019t change course for the team\u2019s first week of OTAs. <\/p>\n
Head coach Brian Schottenheimer confirmed that Pickens has not been in attendance during a Thursday press conference. Schottenheimer said that communication has been good with the wideout while stressing that all of the work at this stage is voluntary. <\/p>\n
The Cowboys will have a mandatory minicamp starting on June 16 and Schottenheimer said Pickens\u2019s plans for those workouts have not been part of their conversations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t discussed that, but I expect he\u2019ll be here,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cI think he\u2019s in a good spot, but I know he\u2019s handling his business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pickens has signed his franchise tag, so he will be subject to fines if he does not report to the minicamp. The Cowboys have said that they will not be negotiating with Pickens about a long-term deal before the July deadline to sign one and that they have no interest in trading him, so it looks like he will play out the year under the tag before resuming the push for a multi-year pact after the 2026 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens didn\u2019t attend the early phases of the team\u2019s offseason workouts and he didn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-684438","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\/684438","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=684438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}