FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys have finalized a five-year deal, $62.5 million cope with large receiver Michael Gallup, in response to sources.
The deal features a $10 million signing bonus.
Gallup’s return comes a day after the Cowboys agreed to commerce large receiver Amari Cooper to the Cleveland Browns, sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter. That deal is pending a bodily and cannot be introduced till the beginning of the brand new league 12 months on Wednesday. Cooper’s $20 million base wage would have been absolutely assured by March 20, however the deal has as an alternative opened up $16 million in salary-cap room.
Gallup was set to hit the free-agent market subsequent week, however he opted to stay with the group that drafted him in 2018 and rehab with the athletic coaching workers he trusts after struggling a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in January.
Gallup, who turned 26 on March 4, had surgical procedure in February to restore his ACL, however the expectation is he could be prepared for sport motion in September.
He performed in simply 9 video games for the Cowboys in 2021 after struggling a calf pressure in Week 1 and the ACL damage in Week 17, catching 35 passes for 445 yards and two touchdowns.
For his profession, Gallup has 193 catches for two,902 yards and 15 touchdowns. In 2019, he had his first 1,000-yard season, ending with a career-high 66 catches for 1,107 yards and 6 touchdowns.
The Cowboys drafted Gallup within the third spherical of the 2018 draft and he instantly grew to become an element within the offense, creating into the group’s greatest deep risk and averaging 15 yards per catch. Earlier than 2021, he had missed simply two video games in his profession.
With the Cowboys shifting on from Cooper, the Cowboys are banking on CeeDee Lamb and Gallup, as soon as he’s wholesome, to step into bigger roles on the offense.
Lamb caught 79 passes for 1,102 yard and 6 touchdowns final season and was added to the Professional Bowl. Cooper caught 68 passes for 865 yards and eight touchdowns regardless of lacking two video games on the reserve/COVID-19 checklist.
The Cowboys are anticipated to lose Cedrick Wilson as soon as free company begins, however had been in a position to hold Noah Brown on a one-year deal. The Cowboys might look to free company and the draft for extra large receiver assist.