When the Cowboys sent a 2006 third-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick to the Steelers for receiver George Pickens and a 2027 sixth-round pick, Dallas inherited the final year of Pickens’s rookie deal, at a salary of $3.656 million.

They’re getting great value for the investment, for far.

Pickens has six touchdowns in the last five games. He caught nine passes for 168 yards and a touchdown during Sunday’s loss to the Panthers. He has a pair of 100-yard games in the three contests that CeeDee Lamb has missed with a high ankle sprain.

Pickens is earning his next contract, one game at a time. Appearing Tuesday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones was asked whether the team is open to starting talks with Pickens on an extension.

“We are always looking at what w

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