Signed by Cowboys La'el Collins Extended

[Chuck 54]

I question those saying he hasn't earned it. He beat out Leary at LG two years in a row when money meant nothing. Only his injury allowed Leary on the field last season. The coaches have coached him for two years and experimented with him at multiple positions.

1. I feel confident he's proven himself to them, which explains the extension.
2. This is peanuts for a guy the coaches know extremely well compared to a first round tackle contract for guys who have truly not proven anything.

 

[iceberg]

Pancakes get Paid

well deserved - great kid!

 

[DFWJC]

Savvy move.
Got before the floodgates really opened.
And also sort of made things right.

 

[MrPhil]

FWIW, Over the Cap shows this would make Collins the #3 paid RT in terms of average per year:

#1 Lane Johnson @ $11.25M
#2 Ricky Wagner @ $9.5M
#3 La'el Collins @ $7.7M

https://overthecap.com/position/right-tackle

Certainly, however, if you look at the totality of his annual "cost" since originally signing, it would be much lower......$3.41M to be more precise.

 

[DCBoysfan]

Good job on the contract and the misdirection Jerry

 

[DFWJC]

Savvy move.
Got before the floodgates really opened.
And also sort of made things right.

And Dak and Zeke are truly blessed.
Not many QBs or RBs in history can say that they will most likely--at the start of their career--have 4 young olineman of this collective quality locked up going forward.

Lime I said before; nice to have a new luxery vehicle as your very first car

 

[YosemiteSam]

$15M for a fat guy that has never played RT in the NFL.

 

[YosemiteSam]

well deserved - great kid!

He's a fatty.

 

[conner01]

What's of buying in to potential that we did with Crawford.

Funny how this is praised now.... Lord help Collins and the front office if he struggles with health (again) or a level of competition at RT (that he never yet faced).

Meanwhile everyone in this thread cheering will forget they did so.

There is risks in drafting or extending
That's the nature of the business
Right move even if it doesn't work out though you are right about fans

 

[Nightman]

He's the 11th highest, do you think he's the 11th best?

Yes...... he was the 14th in the league in Hurries last year by all DL, including DEs and OLBs.... he is severely underrated around here and was our best pressure guy for most of the season until Irving passed him the last few weeks when he was banged up

And people are always grading his past performance based on his future pay........his cap number was 4.5m last year and he clearly outperformed that number....but people want to talk about him as a 9m a year player when this is the first year his cap number will be that high

In the future if he falls off then we can say it was an overpay but not yet

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

2 years, 15.4 million per twitter.

Jerry is a man of his word.

good move by cowboys. ...now lets focus on Martin to an extension as well. wish we knew about free and perhaps tried to keep leary....dang it

 

[Nightman]

There is risks in drafting or extending
That's the nature of the business
Right move even if it doesn't work out though you are right about fans

Getting a 5th year for under the Franchise Tag and making sure he gets some of the money he was screwed out of is a fair deal all around

 

[Nightman]

good move by cowboys. ...now lets focus on Martin to an extension as well. wish we knew about free and perhaps tried to keep leary....dang it

Martin is signed thru 2018 and already got his big 1st round signing bonus money......he is fine

 

[Trouty]

Great deal for both sides. Collins can still get a big payday at the same time he would have as a first round pick. We get two more years of control at a potentially below market rate

Absolutely, Marine. Great take.

 

[Daillest88]

Unexpected. But love this extension. Gut feeling going to play at a pro bowl type level for us this year

 

[Trouty]

$7.5m AAV is not top money for a OL in today's NFL.

Not at all, Fuzzy. Great deal. This is nothing like the TCraw contract.

 

[Hardline]

Should've waited till we see him perform at RT for the season.
Premature signing.

 

[Trouty]

Should've waited till we see him perform at RT for the season.
Premature signing.

Oh, cut it out, dude. Maybe the Cowboys have seen enough.

 

[zrinkill]

He's a fatty.

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Yea ........alright .......

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

Probably a little bit of retro "wink-wink we'll hook you up later" pay included in that.