FRISCO — Ezekiel Elliott has 70 touchdowns in 92 career games, but arguably his greatest NFL score came while he slept. On Sept. 4, 2019, the Cowboys sent an...
Elliott will have no guaranteed money left on his contract after the 2022 season, but releasing him won’t be easy.
No NFL running back will have a higher salary this season than his $12.4 million, which became fully guaranteed in March 2021. At $18.2 million, he counts more against his team’s 2022 salary cap than any other back.A talented group of running backs will share a practice field Tuesday when the Cowboys begin organized team activities .
Last month, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones acknowledged the fluidity after the team drafted nine players in three days. None of those selections were a running back, but Jones cited the position as an example of how the front office is future-minded when building a team. Elliott struggled with ball security in 2020 behind an injury-ravaged offensive line that was already in transition with center Travis Frederick’s retirement, not to mention the Cowboys played 11 games without quarterback Dak Prescott .
In 2023, he is scheduled to receive $11.54 million in salary and count $16.72 million against the salary cap.First, the Cowboys would be parting from a proven player who has been a consummate teammate despite on-field adversity the past two years that was largely out of his control. In addition, last August, the club performedto add immediate cap space. One consequence was that cutting Elliott in 2023 would create $5.16 million more in dead money than it would otherwise.
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