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Not sure if this has been posted before, but Smith isn’t as non-expendable as people think.
https://sportdfw.com/2020/10/06/dallas-cowboys-jaylon-smith-is-more-expendable-than-you-think/
https://sportdfw.com/2020/10/06/dallas-cowboys-jaylon-smith-is-more-expendable-than-you-think/
With a cap cost of $7.771 million this year, Jaylon’s dead money impact would balloon to $23.971 million if cut today. That’s too big to digest. But next season things clear up a bit and cutting Smith would actually offer a $400,000 savings (that’s with $9.4M in dead money).
After the 2021 season, cutting him saves a whopping $5M! In other words, if Dallas wants to move on this winter they could cut him if they were open to eating his 2021 salary. And there’s virtually no reason to keep him beyond the 2021 season unless he significantly changes course. So the Dallas Cowboys aren’t quite as “stuck” as they seem.