Overview
- The Green Bay Packers traded edge rusher Rashan Gary to the Dallas Cowboys in March 2026 for a 2027 fourth-round pick, a move that also created roughly $11 million in short-term cap savings for Green Bay.
- Dallas restructured Gary’s pay into a two-year, $32 million deal that reduced his 2026 cap number and made most of this season’s money guaranteed after Gary accepted what reporters described as a pay cut.
- Gary has 46.5 career sacks across 106 regular-season games, a 2019 first-round pedigree, a 2021 high of 9.5 sacks, and Pro Bowl recognition in 2024, but he has never posted double-digit sacks.
- The Athletic’s Jon Machota and other analysts have predicted Gary could reach 10 or more sacks in 2026, a projection framed as conditional on his health and on Dallas’ scheme producing more one-on-one rushes.
- Coverage ties the projection to Dallas’ coaching and personnel setup — new defensive coordinator Christian Parker, interior linemen Quinnen Williams and Kenny Clark, and an outside-linebacker pairing with Donovan Ezeiruaku — with the Sept. 13 season opener against the Giants the earliest real test.