He's definitely worth it, but the cowboys can find a good RB in the draft and have many personnel decisions to make. I'm am hoping this is the year they bring in a blue chip FA to fill a glaring void (DT). Gallup should be more like his 2021 self. Zeke and Schultz should not be brought back.
Can doesn't mean will. Though I thought that Schulz *could* be easily replaced, I didn't have a cow over his franchise tag because I'll admit there was a significant chance that any pick would we took *would not* be good enough.
Schultz was a bridge player we kept because we had nothing else, and we made it across that bridge.
That's the way I see signing Pollard. Only Pollard is much harder to replace at his level, and much more worth the money we're talking about. He's just better, and that RB tag is less than I expected. We didn't develop alternatives to Zeke and Pollard, so now we're exposed to potentially having *nothing* at RB come next year. So sign Pollard, *and* draft some RBs.
Betting on being able to get guys later in the draft works when you keep em coming while you have other starters under contract. It's a big roll of the dice to rely on it when you absolutely need a new starter.
You're more hopeful on Gallup than I am. I wasn't much disappointed in Gallup this year because I didn't expect much. I did think he got better at slants, and appreciated that, but he's a 2nd or 3rd WR benefitting from defensive attention going elsewhere. As I said at the time, Gallup's heroics when Dak broke his ankle was Peak Gallup. Should have traded him then.
