What do you do when Tony Pollard’s Contract Comes Up Next Year?

[xwalker]

Let’s say due to financial implications you can’t keep Tony and Zeke. Do you:
a. Draft a replacement for Zeke next draft.
b. Draft a replacement for Tony next draft
c. Pray that Tony takes a low ball offer..

Pollard is under contract for 2022...

 

[xwalker]

Emmitt was a key cog on 3 championship teams. What he made was pennies compared to what Zeke got.

Not as a percentage of the salary cap...
(Or team payroll in the pre-cap years)

 

[nightrain]

You find his replacement before he leaves. The Cowboys have to stop paying good players upper tier contracts.

 

[xwalker]

@Vinnie2u Pollard is signed through 2022. He is an UFA in 2023. The Cowboys have one more year to keep both backs just like it is now if they so choose.

Post #20 before anybody noticed that Pollard is not a free agent in 2022...

 

[CATCH17]

yeah bc it requires a certain amount of amazingness for Kamara to be better in pass protection that Pollard

Pollard isn’t terrible in pass protection.

He’s about normal.

All Zeke does is deliver a big blow anyways. It’s not like he’s the best blocker ever he just puts a big shot on the rusher.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

You let him go and draft another guy.

 

[JBS]

Pollard isn’t terrible in pass protection.

He’s about normal.

All Zeke does is deliver a big blow anyways. It’s not like he’s the best blocker ever he just puts a big shot on the rusher.

stop it. It’s about not blowing assignments and executing blocks. You never see zeke blow an assignment like pollard did vs Minnesota

 

[droopdog7]

I think by the end of next season you’ll see more noticeable decline in zeke. If you can resign pollard for not crazy money, that’s probably the move.

 

[Vinnie2u]

Post #20 before anybody noticed that Pollard is not a free agent in 2022...

i didn’t say he was a free agent in 2022. I said draft a replacement in 2022.

 

[fivetwos]

Zeke is 26 now. He’ll play 2 more years, maybe 3, and be shown the door.

He’s a couple of pizzas and a desert away from looking like last year at all times too. Just remember that.

Hopefully he keeps himself in shape going forward.

No matter if he is eating pizzas or hoisting Lombardi trophies he isnt seeing 2025 at 15.4 million or 2026 at 16.6.

I promise that.

Spend a 3rd/4th in the 22 or 23 draft. Problem solved.

 

[Vanilla2]

I approach him about an extension before next training camp

 

[VaqueroTD]

I'll add a challenge to the scenario.

Have you seen Pollard's salary?

What if he ends up with 1,000 yards this season, we go far, and he knows it's now or never to get the long payday.

What do you do if Pollard holds out this offseason instead of taking the $600k or whatever chump change we're throwing at him?

Can we draft someone in time? What type of pick do you think we could get?

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

We have three good runningbacks on our roster right now. Rico Dowdle Jr should be easy to keep for cheap. So no worries for me.

 

[charron]

To answer the question in 2023 you draft or sign a cheap street free agent or both and see who does better in camp. No need to dish out big money at this position again.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Let’s say due to financial implications you can’t keep Tony and Zeke. Do you:
a. Draft a replacement for Zeke next draft.
b. Draft a replacement for Tony next draft
c. Pray that Tony takes a low ball offer..

I would try to resign for cheap and draft a replacement for zeke.

 

[phildadon86]

Him looking average with more volume is just wishful thinking.

Only the “I remember Troy Hambrick” folk are gonna buy that.

Look at the state of NFL RBs. He is a top 10 runner.

It’s not. If you watched college ball and you know. Had actual knowledge. Pollard benefits from zeke. Zeke benefits from pollard. It’s not rocket science. But here you are again. Wrong. As usual.

 

[rambo2]

Let’s say due to financial implications you can’t keep Tony and Zeke. Do you:
a. Draft a replacement for Zeke next draft.
b. Draft a replacement for Tony next draft
c. Pray that Tony takes a low ball offer..

I would think that they take a running back in the 3rd or 4th round of the draft this year.

 

[CATCH17]

It’s not. If you watched college ball and you know. Had actual knowledge. Pollard benefits from zeke. Zeke benefits from pollard. It’s not rocket science. But here you are again. Wrong. As usual.

Zeke just isn’t a bell cow anymore.

 

[CouchCoach]

Get a replacement back for Pollard. I do not see this management letting Elliott walk and keeping Pollard.

 

[rambo2]

Zeke just isn’t a bell cow anymore.

There are no bell cows. They all get hurt.