Overview

• The Cowboys signed tight end Jake Ferguson to a four-year, $52 million extension with $30 million guaranteed, making him the highest-paid tight end in franchise history.
• Micah Parsons remains on his expiring rookie deal and is set to earn $24 million under his fifth-year option as extension talks drag into the preseason.
• Oxnard training camp fans repeatedly chanted “Pay Micah!” at owner Jerry Jones, underscoring supporter impatience for a resolution.
• Jerry Jones cited Parsons’s six-game absence last season to raise durability concerns, while Stephen Jones said the pass rusher “has got to want to be paid.”
• An anonymous source told USA TODAY that Dallas expects to finalize a record-setting extension for Parsons before Week 1 amid rising market values set by Myles Garrett’s $40 million AAV and T. J. Watt’s $41 million AAV deals.