how he feels<\/a> about this football team, this locker room and what we\u2019re building here,\u201d Schottenheimer said, via Patrik Walker of the team website. \u201cI\u2019m not surprised to see him. The OTAs in the offseason program is voluntary, and this is the one part of it that\u2019s mandatory, and he\u2019s not the only player that hasn\u2019t been at camps around the league.<\/p>\n\u201cBut I think he just shows his commitment to the guys in that locker room and helping us win a Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cowboys, though, will not risk a soft tissue injury \u2014 or worse \u2014 with a player who has not been around for the offseason program. So, Pickens\u2019 absence in team drills was expected. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf we needed him to practice today, he could,\u201d Schottenheimer said, via Abby Jones of DLLS Sports. \u201cHe\u2019s going to do some things, but just as we close out minicamp, you know, and off-season program, there\u2019s no need for him to have to do the team stuff. He\u2019s going to get plenty of stuff with individual and the mock stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pickens, 25, earned his first Pro Bowl in his first season in Dallas in 2025, making 93 receptions for 1,429 yards and nine touchdowns.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys are not negotiating a long-term deal with Pickens, so he will play on the one-year tag of $27.3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Pickens is at his first offseason practice Tuesday, but he won\u2019t participate in team drills at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-708176","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\/708176","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=708176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}