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Parris Campbell is headed to Dallas, the Cowboys announced Saturday.

The deal is for one year, per multiple reports.

The Cowboys will be the fourth team for Campbell in the past four seasons, his third in the NFC East. He spent 2023 with the Giants and 2024 with the Eagles.

He played five games with the Super Bowl LIX champions, catching six passes for 30 yards and a touchdown. Campbell saw action on 140 offensive snaps and nine on special teams.

Campbell, 27, entered the NFL as a second-round pick of the Colts in 2019. In his four years with the Colts, he caught 97 passes for 983 yards and five touchdowns.

Campbell’s best season came in 2022 with the Colts where he was the team’s second leading receiver with 63 receptions for 623 yards and three touchdowns.

In his career, Campbell has 123 receptions for 1,117 yards and six touchdowns in 49 games.

He becomes the most experienced wide receiver on the Cowboys’ roster ahead of CeeDee Lamb by one year. He’ll be the second oldest at the position behind KaVontae Turpin (28).

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NFL teams have been spending more like a drunken sailor this week, thanks to a higher-than-expected 2025 salary cap. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, players have collectively signed contracts worth $4.88 billion, including $2.19 billion fully guaranteed at signing since Monday.  

Once teams could officially begin contacting the agents of players with expiring contracts as the two-day negotiating window that’s a precursor to the start of free agency opened on Monday, it was a seller’s market as usual. The tide is turning since the first wave of free agency is essentially over. It’s now a buyer’s market.   

The NFL annual owners meeting, which is March 30-April 2 in Palm Beach, Florida, typically signifies the end of free agency for all practical purposes. Teams will devote most of their attention to the upcoming NFL Draft held April 24-26 after the meeting wraps up.

Here are 10 contract-related thoughts and observations relating to free agency and the early part of the offseason.

The Buffalo Bills renegotiated 2024 NFL MVP Josh Allen’s contract although he had four years worth $154,554,595 remaining on the six-year, $258 million extension averaging $43 million per year (worth a maximum of $288 million through incentives) he signed in 2021. It’s extremely unusual for a team to essentially rip up a contract with four years left like the Bills did.

It’s what happened with the Cleveland Browns’ ill-fated trade for Deshaun Watson in 2022. Watson had four years totaling $136 million remaining on the four-year, $156 million contract extension averaging $39 million per year he received from the Houston Texans in 2020. The Browns gave Watson an unprecedented fully guaranteed five-year, $230 million contract in connection with his trade from the Texans.

Allen received a six-year, $330 million deal averaging $55 million per year. The contract has an NFL record $250 million of guarantees….

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Two days, two visits, zero contracts.

Veteran quarterback Russell Wilson, a free agent for the first time in his career, went to Cleveland on Thursday and New York on Friday. He signed with neither team.

The Giants are, by all appearances, waiting to see what Aaron Rodgers does. When he reached out to the Giants during the week of the Scouting Combine, he had nothing else going on. Now, he does; the Steelers have reportedly made an offer, and the Vikings are still lurking.

For Wilson, it looks to be (for now) the Browns, the Giants, the Steelers, or nothing. It’s possible the Steelers have already moved on. He has no other visits scheduled.

The other issue will be money. How much does Wilson want? How much will an interested team offer?

If Wilson ultimately has no clear starting job in 2025, the question becomes whether he’d accept a position as a backup, or whether he’d not play. He also could wait to see whether a starter suffers a season-ending injury.

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On Thursday night, things got a little heated on Twitter between former Cowboys teammates. For now, former Dallas defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence has gotten the last word.

It started when Lawrence made a comment about never winning a Super Bowl in Dallas. It seemed a little tongue in cheek, but Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons didn’t see it that way.

“This what rejection and envy look like!” Parsons tweeted. “This some clown shit!”

Lawrence fired back: “Calling me a clown won’t change the fact that I told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn’t have left.”

The icing on the cake came from Lawrence changing the photo on his Twitter page to an image of former Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders and former Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin celebrating the team’s most recent Super Bowl win — 30 years ago.

As of this posting, Parsons hasn’t said anything more. It’ll be interesting to see if it’s over, or whether it’ll keep going.

Unfortunately, Dallas and Seattle won’t be playing in the 2025 regular season. Maybe they’ll get together in the playoffs. If both teams can first get there.

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Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! 

We are now in Day 4 of free agency. I haven’t been outside in 72 hours, I have an IV of coffee inserted directly into my veins and I haven’t slept since Monday, but it’s all been worth it, because free agency has been a wild ride. 

We’re going to continue our free agency coverage today by breaking down some of the best value signings so far, plus, we’ll be taking a look at the biggest names left on the market. Also, I should point out that there will be deals going on all day, and if you want to stay on top of all those deals, then you’re definitely going to want to click here so you can follow all the action in our free agency live blog. If you’re too busy to follow a live blog, you can also click here to check out our free agent tracker that will be updated any time one of the top 100 free agents signs a deal.

As always, here’s your daily reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the newsletter. To get them signed up, all you have to do is click here. 

1. QB drama continues: Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson still remain unsigned

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When free agency officially started yesterday, we thought we might get some clarity on where Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers might end up, but instead, there has been NO clarity. If anything, things are just more confusing now. 

Here’s the latest on what’s happening in the QB market, starting with Aaron Rodgers: 

Aaron Rodgers still undecided on his future. The only thing we know about Aaron Rodgers right now is that he has spent at least part of his week on a beach in Malibu contemplating his future (You can see the pictures here). At this point, it seems that the Giants and Steelers both want Rodgers, so he’ll have to decide between those two…..

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How worried are the Carolina Panthers about the future of 2024 second-round draft pick Jonathon Brooks? It might be worse than we’ve been led to believe.

Here are three NFL nuggets after the first day of the NFL’s new year:

What is Carolina’s plan for RB Jonathon Brooks this season?

It hasn’t been a secret that the second ACL tear in the right knee of Carolina Panthers running back Jonathon Brooks is extremely concerning. The way the Panthers are tackling it might shed some light on how concerned the franchise is right now.

The Panthers are signing running back Rico Dowdle to a one-year deal, strongly pointing to a plan that appears to be leaning into sitting Brooks for the entirety of the 2025 season. To err on the side of caution and put together a plan over the next 18 months offers Brooks a chance to enter training camp in 2026 both completely healthy and as confident as possible about his right knee.

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Even taking that approach, a league source indicated there’s a lot of concern about Brooks’ development in all of this. While last year’s 46th overall draft pick is extremely young (he won’t turn 22 until July), he will have played very little high-level football by the time he hits the field for the Panthers again. Brooks had only 54 touches rushing and receiving his first two seasons as a backup for the Texas Longhorns, then another 212 his junior year, before eventually tearing the ACL in his right knee and entering the draft. That was followed by only 12 touches as a rookie for the Panthers before tearing the ACL again.

Jonathon Brooks was a second-round draft pick in 2024. (Photo by David Jensen/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

That’s not a lot of football development over a four-year span. And now there’s a very real question over whether Brooks will ever have access to his considerable ceiling again if his right knee is diminished.

The Panthers are taking the most careful…

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Russell Wilson taking matters into his own hands. Instead of waiting to see if the Steelers will bring him back, the 10-time Pro Bowl quarterback has scheduled visits with the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants, according to ESPN. 

Wilson will fly to Cleveland on Wednesday night and will meet with the team’s brass on Thursday, per the report. He will then fly to New York and meet with the Giants on Friday. 

Wilson, 36, officially became a free agent at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, which is when reports began coming out about his upcoming visits. Wilson spent the 2024 season with the Steelers, going 6-6 as the team’s starting quarterback (including the postseason). 

It was expected that the Steelers would re-sign either Wilson or Justin Fields before the start of free agency. But after Pittsburgh was unable to re-sign Fields, it reportedly set its attention towards trying to sign Aaron Rodgers or Sam…

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