{"id":730170,"date":"2026-02-05T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T01:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:52:19","slug":"i-dont-care-if-george-pickens-earns-more-to-stay-with-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730170\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I don&#8217;t care&#8217; if George Pickens earns more to stay with Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The biggest talking point of the offseason for the Cowboys is George Pickens&#8217; pending free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Already in the wide receiver room, CeeDee Lamb is making $34 million per year after signing a four-year, $136 million extension before the 2024 season. After Pickens&#8217; career best year in 2025 that featured the third-most receiving yards in the league with 1,429 and nine touchdowns, he could be in line for a similar amount of money, if not more.<\/p>\n<p>So how would Lamb feel if his counterpart ends up making more than he does?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care about that, I just want my man to get what he deserves,&#8221; Lamb said on San Antonio&#8217;s Sports Star radio station at the Super Bowl&#8217;s radio row. &#8220;As for me, I know I&#8217;m good. I&#8217;m fine. Me and my family, we&#8217;re straight, and I just want to compete at the highest level and I want to compete for a ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lamb and Pickens combined for 2,506 receiving yards in 2025, over half of the Cowboys&#8217; total passing offense for the season. With that kind of performance together comes a big paycheck, in Lamb&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The money will come if you play good, so just play good and let everything else take care of itself,&#8221; Lamb said. &#8220;As for GP, he&#8217;s well deserving. He deserves every penny that he gets. And if he gets more than me, I&#8217;m going to congratulate him on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the Cowboys, they haven&#8217;t been shy about the fact that they want to keep Pickens in Dallas. At the Senior Bowl in Mobile last week, COO\/co-owner Stephen Jones said the team &#8220;certainly&#8221; wants him to return.<\/p>\n<p>Pickens feels the same way, saying Monday at the Pro Bowl that he <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/george-pickens-has-hope-for-the-best-in-contract-talks-would-love-to-stay-with-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cwould love to\u201d remain with the Cowboys in the future<\/a>. That said, Pickens acknowledged it&#8217;s out of his control, and wants what&#8217;s best for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just the ultimate best deal when it helps everybody\u2026&#8221; Pickens said. &#8220;If it&#8217;s the best thing for both parties, then I&#8217;m willing to do anything. But like I said, I can&#8217;t control it, so I just kind of chill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the wait continues as the Cowboys have a chance to keep one of the best wide receiver duos in the NFL together, and a duo that could also become the highest-paid in the league as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The biggest talking point of the offseason for the Cowboys is George Pickens&#8217; pending free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[1121,230,229,257,2461,94906,7,467,417,1901,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-730170","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-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-featured-offseason-2026","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-pickens","16":"tag-news-all-news","17":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish","18":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116015526598474322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730170","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=730170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}