{"id":184562,"date":"2025-07-05T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/184562\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:55:14","slug":"cowboys-trade-idea-sends-69-million-playmaker-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/184562\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; trade idea sends $69 million playmaker to Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This offseason, the Dallas Cowboys made a trade for Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, giving the team one of the best-receiving duos in the NFL with CeeDee Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>Lamb and Pickens should be able to take over the NFL, but the Pickens trade might not be the only receiver the Cowboys trade for this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The New England Patriots just signed receiver Stefon Diggs to a three-year, $69 million deal, but some off-the-field drama could send Diggs packing before the start of the NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>If Diggs were to be traded, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/07\/05\/breaking-nfl-insider-predicts-this-latest-blockbuster-stefon-diggs-trade-4-logical-suitors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anthony Palacios from Last Word On Sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Anthony Palacios from Last Word On Sports<\/a> thinks the Cowboys could trade for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dallas Cowboys might as well get another possible dynamic wide receiver despite trading for\u00a0George Pickens\u00a0this offseason,&#8221; Palacios wrote.\u00a0&#8220;Jalen Tolbert is entering his contract year, and he&#8217;s a WR3 for the offensive unit, so this is his last chance to prove that he can earn another deal. If he doesn&#8217;t, they could trade for Diggs to not only depend on CeeDee Lamb and Pickens in the deep threat route, while Dak Prescott slings it to the slot in a potential reliable receiver like Diggs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Vakw2IH60eBZ4UO1Iz1b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Follow The Sporting News On WhatsApp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Follow The Sporting News On WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diggs is coming off a season where he only appeared in eight games due to a knee injury. It doesn&#8217;t seem like the Cowboys would make any move to acquire Diggs after trading for Pickens.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The only way Dallas would make a move for Diggs is if something were to happen to Lamb or Pickens, and they need another veteran receiver on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/chicago-bears\/news\/bears-50-million-playmaker-named-most-overrated-player-his-position\/ebb7fe953fd10d9e8dde6587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears $50 million playmaker named most overrated player at his position;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears $50 million playmaker named most overrated player at his position<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This offseason, the Dallas Cowboys made a trade for Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, giving the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[32054,1121,230,1370,229,257,2461,7,467,4078,249,6,57,531,1119],"class_list":{"0":"post-184562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-anthony-palacios","9":"tag-ceedee-lamb","10":"tag-cowboys","11":"tag-dak-prescott","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-dallascowboys","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-george-pickens","17":"tag-jalen-tolbert","18":"tag-new-england-patriots","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-stefon-diggs","22":"tag-the-cowboys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114803331950053059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184562","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=184562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}