The Cowboys acted boldly last off-season. In an effort to save money, they dispatched Amari Cooper to Cleveland for a fifth-round pick (which would become OT Matt Waletzko) and they allowed Cedrick Wilson to go to Miami without much of a fight.
Dallas re-signed the injured Michael Gallup to a five-year, $57,500,000 contract and then signed free agent receiver James Washington to a very modest 1-year, $1,035,000 deal.
Gallup’s $11,500,000 average annual salary was almost half of what Cooper was signed for and Washington’s $1,035,000 tag was $6 million cheaper than Wilson’s deal in Miami. Both replacements represented big savings for the Cowboys.
But with Gallup’s recovery likely to bleed into the 2022 season, Dallas was prepared to start the new season without three of their top four receivers from a season before. Replacing all of that production would be no small task.
The Cowboys likely knew as much, which is why they scouted multiple receivers with their first pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.
They may not be able to cleanly replace Cooper and Wilson’s production but perhaps Washington and a rookie combined with improvement from CeeDee Lamb and a speedy recovery from Gallup would come close.
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