{"id":224732,"date":"2025-09-13T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224732\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:19:08","slug":"cowboys-sign-tyler-smith-to-record-extension-per-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224732\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys sign Tyler Smith to record extension, per reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/85874793007-1782728356.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dallas Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Tyler Dragon breaks down the blockbuster trade between the Cowboys and Packers that sends Micah Parsons to Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Pulse<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> have the highest-paid guard in the NFL once again.<\/p>\n<p>Seven years after handing out a record extension to franchise icon Zack Martin, Dallas has agreed to a four-year, $96 million extension with left guard <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/tyler-smith\/1165313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tyler Smith<\/a>, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1966958328074150240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1966957991477027166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a>. This extension moves him past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/trey-smith\/975332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Trey Smith<\/a> as the highest-paid guard in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 24 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, Smith was set to entire the fourth year of his five-year rookie contract. Dallas picked up his fifth-year option that would keep him with the team through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made his second consecutive Pro Bowl in 2024 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/players\/tyler-smith\/98385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pro Football Focus ranked him<\/a> as the No. 22 guard in the league among 136 qualifying players. He started out at left tackle as a rookie before moving to left guard in his second season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" data-autotag=\"7af2161d-a8dd-41a5-87e2-32eb5b028473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cowboys<\/a> made waves this offseason by not coming to terms on a deal with star edge rusher <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/micah-parsons\/1107581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Micah Parsons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/08\/28\/micah-parsons-trade-details-cowboys-packers\/85845914007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">dealt him to the Green Bay Packers<\/a>. But they also agreed to extensions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/07\/27\/dallas-cowboys-contract-jake-ferguson\/85396049007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tight end Jake Ferguson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/31\/daron-bland-contract-details-cowboys-extension\/85921331007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">cornerback DaRon Bland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cowboyswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/cowboys\/2025\/03\/04\/cowboys-odighizuwa-extension\/81368087007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Smith contract details<\/p>\n<p>This new extension makes Smith the highest-paid guard in NFL history and one of the highest-paid offensive linemen league-wide. Here are the specifics, per multiple reports:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Length: <\/strong>4 years<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total value: <\/strong>$96 million<\/li>\n<li><strong>Average annual value (AAV):<\/strong> $24 million<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guaranteed:<\/strong> $81.2 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His AAV is just ahead of Trey Smith &#8211; who signed a deal earlier this offseason &#8211; by just $500,000, per <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OverTheCap<\/a>. Among all offensive linemen, Smith&#8217;s AAV ranks ninth in the league.<\/p>\n<p>His total guaranteed money is more than any other offensive lineman in the NFL by a considerable margin. The next-closest is the New York Giants&#8217; Andrew Thomas at $67 million and the next-closest guard is Atlanta&#8217;s Chris Lindstrom at $48.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys trade Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers USA TODAY Sports&#8217; Tyler Dragon breaks down the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,8015,8019,10887,58348,121745,10443,121747,7311,1596,8998,121744,33856,89115,1318,11652,3005,61674,121746,10442,30581,11138,644,663,1571,5382,50,1232,12623,940,24636,24635,24640,450,1457,30582,1451,4157,62,1458,645,358,4546,4838,50026,3187,11532,50025,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,63392,35773],"class_list":{"0":"post-224732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-andrew","12":"tag-andrew-thomas","13":"tag-bland","14":"tag-chris","15":"tag-chris-lindstrom","16":"tag-cowboys","17":"tag-dallas","18":"tag-dallas-cowboys","19":"tag-daron","20":"tag-daron-bland","21":"tag-ferguson","22":"tag-football","23":"tag-hub","24":"tag-jake","25":"tag-jake-ferguson","26":"tag-lindstrom","27":"tag-martin","28":"tag-micah","29":"tag-micah-parsons","30":"tag-modular","31":"tag-modular-story","32":"tag-national","33":"tag-national-sports","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-nfl","36":"tag-nfl-hub","37":"tag-now","38":"tag-odighizuwa","39":"tag-osa","40":"tag-osa-odighizuwa","41":"tag-overall","42":"tag-overall-positive","43":"tag-parsons","44":"tag-positive","45":"tag-smith","46":"tag-sports","47":"tag-sports-news","48":"tag-story","49":"tag-texas","50":"tag-thomas","51":"tag-trey","52":"tag-trey-smith","53":"tag-tx","54":"tag-tyler","55":"tag-tyler-smith","56":"tag-united-states","57":"tag-united-states-of-america","58":"tag-unitedstates","59":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","60":"tag-us","61":"tag-usa","62":"tag-zack","63":"tag-zack-martin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}