Jones said<\/a>. \u201cWhether it\u2019s George Pickens or it\u2019s Javonte [Williams], those are all guys that play into the free agency picture.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe won\u2019t get into any details right now,\u201d Jones continued. \u201cCertainly, we want George to be back here in Dallas, and we\u2019ll go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Jones refused to go into great detail about plans for Pickens, it\u2019s clear Dallas wants him back in the fold after being named to his first Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro. There were plenty of question marks attached to Pickens when the Cowboys acquired him. This season in Dallas proved that he could stay focused on football and put all doubts to rest.<\/p>\n
In his first season in Dallas, Pickens led the team with 93 receptions, 1,429 and 9 touchdowns, which were all career highs. Alongside fellow wideout CeeDee Lamb, catching passes from quarterback Dak Prescott, the Cowboys produced one of the most explosive offenses in the NFL. Dallas ranked second in total yards (391.9) and seventh in points (27.7). They also finished second in the league in passing yards (266.3) per game.<\/p>\n
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Dallas allowing Pickens to get away after the best season of his career would be shocking, even if they cannot come to terms on a new long-term deal. The Cowboys have the franchise tag in their back pocket and can use that as a way to buy more time in working out a new contract with Pickens if needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys have a busy offseason ahead, with one of the biggest tasks being a contract extension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[1121,230,1370,229,257,2461,7,467,6,2884,1119],"class_list":{"0":"post-712321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-ceedee-lamb","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dak-prescott","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-dallascowboys","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-pickens","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-stephen-jones","18":"tag-the-cowboys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115974687517389183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712321","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=712321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}