said on 105.3 The Fan<\/a> that what the Steelers were initially asking for was more than the Cowboys were willing to give up, but they eventually got the Steelers to lower the price to a 2027 sixth-round pick and 2028 second-round pick.<\/p>\n\u201cEarly on the price was a little hefty for us, then it got to a point where we could deal with it,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n
Jones said the Cowboys know there\u2019s a chance Porter will leave in free agency after this season, but they think if he does, they\u2019ll get a 2028 compensatory pick that largely makes up for losing the 2028 second-round pick.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to have that trade make sense if Joey left after this year,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThat\u2019s why the 2 in \u201928 matches up with a compensatory pick. If he did leave we\u2019d probably get a 3 or a 4 for him and get that back for Joey in \u201928 when that 2 is in place. So it made a lot of sense. It protected us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if Porter proves to be only a rental for the rest of this season before going elsewhere, Jones thinks the price was right, once the Steelers lowered it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys Executive V.P. Stephen Jones says the team spent significant time negotiating a trade with the Steelers for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-868777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868777","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=868777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}