The Dallas Cowboys have reached a contract extension with one among their younger stars.
However it’s not Dak Prescott.
Or Ezekiel Elliott.
Or Amari Cooper.
Cowboys, Jaylon Smith comply with extension
Cowboys vp Stephen Jones instructed media that Dallas and linebacker Jaylon Smith have agreed on a five-year extension worth $64 million, with $35.5 million assured.
Smith himself tweeted affirmation and appreciation for the deal:
Smith was set to turn into a restricted free agent after this season, which meant the Cowboys managed his contract by way of 2020.
However Smith’s agent and Dallas started talks within the spring they usually ramped up initially of camp, in accordance with ESPN’s Todd Archer.
Not slowed by harm
Smith was thought of a surefire first-round choose popping out of Notre Dame within the fall of 2015 – that’s, till he suffered a torn ACL, MCL and nerve harm within the Fiesta Bowl on New 12 months’s Day 2016.
The harm price him tens of millions, with many draft observers believing Smith would fall to at the least the third spherical. However Dallas drafted him excessive within the second, at 34th general, understanding he wouldn’t be obtainable for his true rookie season.
Smith performed all 16 video games (with six begins) in 2017, and began all 16 video games final 12 months, ending with 121 whole tackles on an up-and-coming protection.
Off the sector, Smith is doing what he can for budding entrepreneurs in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind.. Final month, he held the Indiana Showcase, a undertaking of his Minority Entrepreneurship Institute, which awarded funding and mentorship to small-business house owners.