{"id":17974,"date":"2025-01-10T01:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2025-01-10T01:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:53:05","slug":"breaking-news-cowboys-set-to-shake-things-up-trade-draft-picks-for-1300-yard-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=17974","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Cowboys Set to Shake Things Up: Trade Draft Picks for 1,300-Yard Superstar?.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2187752264-e1736349734434.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2187752264-e1736349734434.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2187752264-e1736349734434.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2187752264-e1736349734434.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys potential trade target Breece Hall\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" data-img-load-time=\"868\" data-dom-ready-time=\"981\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Cowboys potential trade target Breece Hall<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When it comes to offseason drama, the\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0have already had a decent share. The contract extension that needs to happen with\u00a0Micah Parsons\u2014sooner rather than later\u2014will be the big news, while the move on coach Mike McCarthy is the most pressing. But there\u2019s still the matter of filling out the roster, and coming off of last season\u2019s disaster, that\u2019s going to prove difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, last year\u2019s disappointment started in March, when the Cowboys\u2014unwilling to move quickly on contracts for\u00a0CeeDee Lamb\u00a0and\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0that could have given the team financial flexibility\u2014did virtually nothing in free agency or on the trade market.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that the team has learned a lesson. That\u2019s difficult when your GM is also your owner who happens to be an octogenarian with an inability to catch up with the modern\u00a0NFL. But if you\u2019re a Cowboys fan, what can you do but hope?<\/p>\n<p>One area in which the Cowboys clearly could use some depth is the running game, which they botched last year. They will need to re-sign\u00a0Rico Dowdle\u00a0after a solid season, but they need depth there, too. One star-caliber player who could be had in a trade stands out:\u00a0Breece Hall\u00a0of the Jets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Would Trade 2 Picks<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s the play at the NFL contract-expert website Spotrac, where managing editor Mike Ginnitti has a potential deal for Hall all laid out. Hall is only 23, a former second-round pick whose role in New York has fluctuated.<\/p>\n<p>He had 876 yards on 209 carries last season, an average of 4.2 yards per carry. He was an excellent receiver out of the backfield, too, catching 57 passes for 483 yards, giving him 1,359 yards from scrimmage,\u00a016th in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on Spotrac, Ginnitti predicted the following deal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jets trade RB Breece Hall to the Dallas Cowboys in exchange for a 3rd &amp; 6th round pick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He explained: \u201cFrom A-Z, the Jets organization appears to be at a crossroads, setting up an opportunity for rostered players nearing next contract negotiations to be poached.<\/p>\n<p>Running back appears to be one of the deeper positions on this Jets roster, setting them up to float Hall in trade discussions this March as they look to bulk up on draft picks for the pending rebuild. Hall\u2019s deal contains 2 years, $3.4M remaining, none of which is guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Breece Hall Makes No Sense in a Rebuild<\/h2>\n<p>Now, that is good value for the Cowboys, because Hall has the potential to step in and start for the Cowboys, and could make for a solid 1-2 punch alongside Dowdle, who rushed for 1,079 yards this season. The Cowboys would erode their 2024 draft, though, having already traded away their fourth-rounder for Jonathan Mingo.<\/p>\n<p>The question would be, why would the Jets trade a young back like Hall? Ginnitti took that up in a recent episode of \u201cThe Spotrac Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe other big name here is Breece Hall. This is not clickbait by any regards. We have absolutely no idea how aggressively big the Jets offseason is going to get in terms of ripping it down or the Rodgers drama\u2014which is already starting to rear its ugly head. If the plan is to go back in the draft and start this thing over, now you\u2019ve got to look yourself in the mirror if you\u2019re Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall and some of these players that are extension eligible. Kind of found themselves in reduced roles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou pick up the phone and you make a call to whoever the GM is going to be in February and say, \u2018What\u2019s the deal with Breece? Is there an offer out there?\u2019 It\u2019s not like there is not a backup plan. This is a team that has been drafting running backs pretty exclusively, pretty annually.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys potential trade target Breece Hall When it comes to offseason drama, the\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0have already had a decent share. 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