Life moves pretty fast in the NFL. The Cowboys’ wide receiver room gave a textbook example over the 2021 season, and it’s culminated in two blockbuster moves over the weekend.
On the day after trading Amari Cooper away to Cleveland, the team will be re-signing Michael Gallup, NFL insider Adam Schefter has reported. Entering his fifth year as a pro, Gallup will ink a five-year deal worth $62.5 million instead of becoming a free agent.
WR Michael Gallup is resigning with the Cowboys, a five-year, $62.5M deal, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 13, 2022
At the beginning of the season, it looked as though it would be the other way around. Cooper had a brilliant Week 1 versus Tampa Bay; Gallup got hurt during the game, bringing an uncertain wrinkle to what was supposed to be a contract year for him. Many Cowboys observers had already assumed Gallup would be gone in free agency, suddenly too expensive for Dallas to keep.
But Gallup missed seven games with that calf injury and then tore an ACL in Week 17. His market woefully limited, he had improbably became a potential bargain in a locker room where $20 million man Cooper had managed to wear out his welcome by season’s end.
Now Cooper will be a Brown, and 26-year-old Gallup will be earning $12.5 million per year while staying in Dallas alongside CeeDee Lamb.
The Cowboys are reportedly confident that Gallup is recovering well from his February knee surgery; they expect him to be ready for the start of a 2022 season that he will be now paid handsomely for.
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