{"id":403944,"date":"2025-11-25T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403944\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:16:11","slug":"jerry-jones-doesnt-envision-george-pickens-not-playing-for-cowboys-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403944\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones doesn&#8217;t envision George Pickens not playing for Cowboys in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more that is there around Dak Prescott is CeeDee Lamb, Javonte Williams, the rest of the wide receiver room, newly-extended Jake Ferguson and an offensive line that feature three first round picks.<\/p>\n<p>All of them along with first-time head coach and play caller Brian Schottenheimer have led Dallas to the number one offense in the league, but it&#8217;s no secret that Pickens has been a massive contributor to it. Jones is seeing his impact when he&#8217;s making big plays, and when he&#8217;s not, which is a big reason why he&#8217;d like him to stay in Dallas going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s an outstanding, let me emphasize this again, outstanding teammate,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;He brings energy to the team even when he&#8217;s not making some of those great receptions. Bottom line, it&#8217;s working, and it&#8217;s precious to have it here right at this time with what we&#8217;re trying to do with Dak and how we&#8217;re trying to maximize having him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just about a year and a half ago, the Cowboys signed Lamb to a four-year, $136 million extension, netting him an annual average salary of $34 million per year. With the way that Pickens is playing, he could end up commanding that or even more in contract extension talks.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he would feel comfortable with the dynamic of Pickens making more than Lamb, Jones did not want to discuss a hypothetical scenario.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing that we can do, I know it&#8217;s fun, but there&#8217;s nothing that we can gain from speculating and conjecture,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;The bottom line is that we&#8217;re in good shape, we built the trade so that we could have potentially our options, and of course, frankly, he&#8217;s lived and is playing better than we could&#8217;ve even anticipated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there&#8217;s been no one closer to Pickens on the team than his counterpart in CeeDee Lamb, who was clear that he doesn&#8217;t want Pickens playing elsewhere in the future as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have the most confidence that we&#8217;re going to keep him, and I&#8217;m sure that he wants to be here with how much fun he&#8217;s having and everything he&#8217;s accomplishing on the field,&#8221; Lamb said last week. &#8220;So for us as his teammates, I feel like it&#8217;s pretty clear: We want GP back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Lamb, after a few drops against the Eagles on Sunday, Jones was asked if there was any concerns with the All-Pro wide receiver. In his mind, there are not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine with him in any aspect,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;He&#8217;s proven. Was proven when he got here with his great career at Oklahoma, but he&#8217;s proven with what he&#8217;s done since he&#8217;s been here. Certainly, he&#8217;s the first one to be frustrated over those drops that we&#8217;re alluding to. But if there&#8217;s ever been a player that you can look at the whole package, and you can go past those drops real easy when you look at what he&#8217;s done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next chance both Lamb and Pickens will get to show what they can do comes on a short week, with the Kansas City Chiefs coming to town for the annual Thanksgiving game on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The more that is there around Dak Prescott is CeeDee Lamb, Javonte Williams, the rest of the wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,183276,35777,50027,1292,1296,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-403944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-featured-kcvsdal-2025","11":"tag-george-pickens","12":"tag-jerry-jones","13":"tag-news-all-news","14":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115611237527350955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403944","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=403944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}