The Dallas Cowboys got an extension done on Sunday for a player in their first window of eligibility. See, it is totally possible.
DaRon Bland will be a part of this defense for the foreseeable future thanks to the 4-year, $92M extension he got from the Cowboys, and it is obviously difficult to not tie anything the team does right now back to the trading of Micah Parsons. When you do something that massive, everything exists in its orbit for a while.
To the Cowboys’ credit, they said after trading Parsons that they would use the funds saved from not getting a deal done with him to take care of others. Bland has happened already, but there are others also in need of deals.
At the moment there are strong arguments for any of (or all!) Tyler Smith, George Pickens or Brandon Aubrey to get l