According to multiple sources, the Cowboys have reworked Zack Martin’s contract and increased the salary cap.
FRISCO, Texas – The Dallas Cowboys have reworked the contract of All-Pro right guard Zack Martin to open this year’s salary cap space and potentially allowing them to spread a salary cap hit between the 2025 and 2026 seasons should 2024 be their final year with the organization, according to multiple sources.
Zack Martin, de los Dallas de Cowboys. Mitchell Leff/Getty Images
Martin’s contract was set to expire after this season, but he had three voidable years until 2027. The Cowboys gained about $13 million in space for 2024 by reworking their deal, which puts them below the $255 million cap before the start of the league year, which starts next week.
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Without the non-voidable additional years in the contract, the dead money on his deal if he had not played for the Cowboys after this season it would have been close to $25 million. Before redoing Martin’s contract, the Cowboys They were looking for around $60 million. in dead money against the 2025 cap with the expiring contracts of Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, Brandin Cooks and Dak Prescott. A possible release of Michael Gallup could add more than $8 million in dead money to the cap next year.
From 2017 to 2023, dead money accounted for between 8% and 18.2% of the Cowboys’ salary cap, according to data from the Roster Management System. With a projected 2025 cap of $270 million, that dead money figure could be between 22% and 37%, making it difficult for them to retain or add players.
Last summer, the Cowboys gave Martin an $8.5 million raise in 2023 and 2024 after he sat out part of training camp, going from $27.5 million to $36 million guaranteed. The agreement made Martin the Third highest-paid shooting guard in the NFL behind Atlanta’s Chris Lindstrom and Quenton Nelson. of Indianapolis, who reset the market at $20.5 million and $20 million, respectively.
In 2023, Martin started 15 games, missing one game due to an ankle injury and another due to illness, and He was named to the Pro Bowl for the ninth time in 10 years and All-Pro for the seventh time.. Martín will turn 34 years old in November. Only Hall of Famers Bob Lilly (11), Larry Allen (10) and Mel Renfro (10), plus 11-time Hall of Famer Jason Witten, who is not yet eligible for the Hall of Fame, have been selected for more. Pro Bowls than Martin in Dallas history.
The Cowboys have other moves they can make to create 2024 cap space, such as restructure deals for cornerback Trevon Diggs, right tackle Terence Steele and Prescott. At last week’s scouting combine, owner and general manager Jerry Jones said the Cowboys would begin looking for an extension for Prescott, which would also create cap space in 2024.
2024-03-08 17:40:00
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