The Cowboys restructured the contract of running back Ezekiel Elliott on Friday morning, moving part of his hefty salary to the front. In a nutshell, it doesn’t make much difference to Elliott’s financial status as his salary was already guaranteed for the year and he clearly wasn’t in danger of being released either this year or in 2022. That season was also guaranteed.
What it does do is give Dallas some flexibility in what they might be looking to do as the regular season nears and they begin to make decisions on the composition of their roster. Are there any holes on a team the front office believes could compete for a championship? Clearly. Maybe the club is looking to acquire veteran help they couldn’t afford before with their previous amount of cap space which went from $5.3 million to $12.2 million in the blink of an eye.
If Dallas were looking to acquire a name player in a trade, who could it be?