Dez Bryant is not the only top wide receiver in the NFL having contract issues, but he may end up being the last guy to get paid.
The Cowboys seemed afraid of Bryant’s volatile past once — but now it sounds like Jerry and Stephen Jones are going to use the excuse of “market value” — to explain the hold on Bryant’s new deal.
“I think a lot people want to naturally assume it’s a Dez Bryant-Cowboy issue. I think it’s a bigger issue than that right now,” Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Wednesday in a conference call with season-ticket holders. “There’s three or four young receivers in this league other than Dez that are going to be looking for long term contracts.”
Bryant joins Julio Jones, Demaryius Thomas and A.J. Green, as players looking to join the Ranks of Calvin Johnson as the highest paid in the game.
“No one has been able to really figure out what they think the market should be,” Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News. “I think ultimately we’ll get this done. No one wants to have Dez long term involved with the Dallas Cowboys more so than our organization, Jerry and myself. Our goal is to get it done, get it done long term, so we can move forward and let Dez continue to make all the great plays he’s made up until this point.”