{"id":389351,"date":"2025-11-19T06:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389351\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:47:13","slug":"brian-schottenheimer-im-very-in-favor-of-keeping-george-pickens-long-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389351\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Schottenheimer: I&#8217;m very in favor of keeping George Pickens long term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboys traded for George Pickens without giving him an extension. They have a bargain this season, paying Pickens only $3.656 million. <\/p>\n<p>He has a team-leading 83 receptions for 908 yards and seven touchdowns. It\u2019s already the second-most yards and the most touchdowns Pickens has had in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jerry-jones-ive-never-seen-a-performance-like-george-pickens-had-on-monday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lauded Pickens\u2019 performance<\/a> in the win over the Raiders on Monday night when the wide receiver made nine receptions for 144 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Pickens, though, is scheduled for free agency in March.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer made it clear on Tuesday that he wants Pickens beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSign me up. I mean, what do you say?\u201d Schottenheimer said Tuesday, via Schuyler Dixon of the Associated Press. \u201cThose two guys [Pickens and CeeDee Lamb], I just love their relationship, man. I love the firepower that they give us. That\u2019s one of those games where you never know which one it\u2019s going to be. Some games it\u2019s both of them. Some games it\u2019s one of them, and again, like I said, I pinch myself at times. Because when you\u2019re talking about you\u2019re Dak [Prescott] or the play caller, like myself, you\u2019re like, \u2018OK, if we do this, which way do I throw it to? I like that matchup, but wow, that one is pretty good, too.\u2019 That\u2019s real. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very in favor of George having a long-term future with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/franchise-transition-and-rfa-tenders#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">projected receiver franchise tag<\/a> for 2026 is at least $28 million in cash and cap charges, and Pickens is expected to want a long-term deal worth at least $30 million per season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys traded for George Pickens without giving him an extension. They have a bargain this season, paying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-389351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389351","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=389351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}