{"id":21487,"date":"2025-01-23T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T07:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2025-01-23T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T07:20:17","slug":"breaking-news-cowboys-predicted-to-cut-ties-with-21-million-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21487","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Cowboys Predicted to Cut Ties With $21 Million Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article__header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"l-article__meta\">\n<div class=\"l-article__meta-item l-article__meta-item--dates\">\n<ul class=\"c-meta c-meta--post c-meta--list c-meta--dates\">\n<li class=\"c-meta__item c-meta__item--updated\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__content\">\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<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-2191128990-e1737566788656.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-2191128990-e1737566788656.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2191128990-e1737566788656.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2191128990-e1737566788656.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys S Donovan Wilson\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" data-img-load-time=\"1180\" data-dom-ready-time=\"5821\" \/><\/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 S Donovan Wilson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0have a number of issues in front of them this offseason, starting with the hiring of a new coach to replace Mike McCarthy. But there will be personnel issues aplenty, too, and with a payroll that is already well over the salary cap, the Cowboys will need to axe some players as well as restructure some deals to have room to be able to pursue free agents.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, after the way last year\u2019s offseason unfolded, there is little cause for hope around Dallas\u2019 ability to get creative with current contracts and bring in free agents. But, supposing this team could, potentially, operate like a standard franchise that wants to compete for championships, clearing out cap space should be high on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Again, they can restructure some current deals and push salary into the future. Even if they do, though, there are players who will have to be let go to create space and allow for younger, cheaper players to take over. And one of those is safety\u00a0Donovan Wilson,\u00a0who has been with the Cowboys for six seasons and is heading into the final year of a\u00a0three-year, $21 million deal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Could Save Money With Donovan Wilson Cut<\/h2>\n<p>At the Cowboys analysis site,\u00a0Blogging the Boys, they\u2019ve pegged Wilson as the team\u2019s most likely cap casualty this offseason. They\u2019ve identified Terence Steele, too, but the Cowboys have more depth in the defensive backfield to replace Wilson than they do to replace Steele.<\/p>\n<p id=\"GsTVtF\">As the site noted: \u201cWilson is now the veteran at risk of not being retained.<\/p>\n<p id=\"SkzjjW\">\u201cWith one year left on his contract, Wilson is scheduled to count $8.65 million against Dallas\u2019 2025 salary cap. The Cowboys can get back $5.35 million if they make him an outright cut or $7 million with a June 1st designation. It\u2019s put Wilson in a neck-and-neck race with\u00a0OT Terence Steele for the team\u2019s most likely cap casualty\u00a0this offseason. But while Steele has some mitigating factors given the team\u2019s overall landscape at offensive tackle, Wilson doesn\u2019t have the same traction at safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are likely to keep\u00a0Juanyeh Thomas\u00a0on a cost-effective deal at safety, and play him alongside\u00a0Malik Hooker. The Cowboys would need to add some depth, but could probably do so for less than what they\u2019d pay Wilson, who has started 47 games in the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys S Donovan Wilson The\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0have a number of issues in front of them this offseason, starting with the hiring of a new coach to replace Mike&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS : Cowboys Predicted to Cut Ties With $21 Million Starter - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21487\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS : Cowboys Predicted to Cut Ties With $21 Million Starter - 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