{"id":116485,"date":"2025-06-09T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/116485\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:33:11","slug":"cowboys-urged-to-sign-pro-bowler-jaire-alexander-after-packers-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/116485\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Urged To Sign Pro Bowler Jaire Alexander After Packers Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cowboys Urged To Sign Pro Bowler Jaire Alexander After Packers Cut<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FRISCO – It took 10 seconds.<\/p>\n

Within 10 seconds after the Monday morning breaking news on the Green Bay Packers leaking their decision to release two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander, the texts started coming in.<\/p>\n

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Within a few minutes after that, social media and the internet were ablaze.<\/p>\n

And here we go again, with your Dallas Cowboys attached to an available big name … with nobody pausing to take a breath to consider the facts.<\/p>\n

First, to Green Bay, where the two sides have been attempting for months to work out a revised contract … with the team uncomfortable with continuing to pay Alexander on the\u00a0four-year, $84 million extension they just gave him a year ago.<\/p>\n

What is their issue? Injuries, mostly, as Alexander has missed significant time in three of the past four seasons.<\/p>\n

In other words, to some degree, he’s the Packers’ version of Trevon Diggs.<\/p>\n

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When healthy? He’s a two-time Pro Bowl cornerback (like Diggs).<\/p>\n

He’s still young at 28. (Diggs will turn 27 this season.)<\/p>\n

But as excited as Cowboys Nation gets about stuff like this, Dallas’ hesitation here will \u2014 and should \u2014 mirror Green Bay’s hesitation.<\/p>\n

Jaire’s cap numbers presently? That’d be $25 mil for this year and $27 mil for next year … though there is contractually escapability after 2025.<\/p>\n

So … he could be a one-year rental … and maybe he won’t demand $20 million plus.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you’re going to do that, why not just trade for Miami’s Jalen Ramsey? (Which the Cowboys are openly saying they have no interest in doing.)<\/p>\n

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Alexander was a 2018 first-round pick; he’s got pedigree. While totaling 12 interceptions over his career, he’s a playmaker. … though not on a level with Diggs. …<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to Dallas.<\/p>\n

In 2023. Diggs played just two games. He played 11 games in 2024 before he suffered another season-ending injury. Now he might miss half of this season.<\/p>\n

They therefore have DaRon Bland and a bunch of guys in the cornerback room at present.<\/p>\n

Should the Cowboys “jump at the chance ” to sign Alexander? No.<\/p>\n

Should they explore it, call on it, ponder the finances and the injuries and the risks? Sure.<\/p>\n

But that takes more than 10 seconds. Or even 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Related: Micah Parsons Makes Cowboys Announcement for Monday<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Dallas Cowboys Fans Worrying About Trevon Diggs Decision Danger<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys Urged To Sign Pro Bowler Jaire Alexander After Packers Cut originally appeared on Athlon Sports. FRISCO –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[257,3430,7,41,345,2514,2513,5390,1815,216,6,428,3428],"class_list":{"0":"post-116485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-daron-bland","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-green-bay","12":"tag-green-bay-packers","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-jaire-alexander","16":"tag-jalen-ramsey","17":"tag-miami","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-packers","20":"tag-trevon-diggs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114654373919265160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}