Its not risky as much as how the league works, if your steele and his agent are you doing a team friendly deal or saying,"Lets see what other teams think" odds are good he is a Cowboy, if not its because we dont WAY overpay him for what he is...thats not risk its how player contracts work. No one was yelling "Pay Steele a huge contract" last year which is when you would've needed to do this to keep him from going RFA...again im no fan of this FO but this is not a smart or dumb move, its literally how RFA works in the league. If another team makes offers him the highest contract for an RT are we all saying blindly match it? put it this way he was an UDFA and ended up starting, once he planted Collins his agent was looking for this next contract.