Cowboys Send Clear Message on Extending George Pickens After Week 7 Rout
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sent a clear message on the idea of extending wide receiver George Pickens following a 44-22 rout of the Washington Commanders.
The Cowboys’ offense looked like a juggernaut during the win, with CeeDee Lamb and Pickens leading the way. The duo combined for nine catches, 192 yards and a touchdown in the victory.
After the matchup, Jones addressed the concern some have had that Pickens is represented by the same agent as Micah Parsons, David Mulugheta. Negotiations got ugly with Parsons, leading to his eventual trade to the Green Bay Packers. Jones does not see that situation affecting anything they try to do with Pickens.
“Don’t pay any attention to that at all. No attention,” Jones said. “Too much was made of that — that the agent had something to do with the ultimate decision of where we were. It almost had zero to do with it, period. That’s not a negative; it just didn’t have that kind of influence. I was going to be where I was with Micah, relative to dollars and cents, no matter who represented him.”
Pickens is in the final year of his rookie deal. The Cowboys traded a 2026 third-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick to the Steelers for Pickens and a 2027 sixth-round pick.
Cowboys Need to Have ‘Room’ for George Pickens Extension
Pickens has made his impact felt with the Cowboys and capitalized on a large role in the offense when CeeDee Lamb was sidelined. The former second-round pick has 36 catches for 607 yards and six touchdowns. Pickens has also erased concerns about how he’d fit in the locker room.
“He is doing more than we could, than we did expect or that we could have expected. What’s really special is he’s a real plus to have around the team. He’s a real plus around his teammates,” Jones said last week. “He’s a great plus around those coaches. Those coaches really think highly of him, and so he’s not only doing it on the field. He’s doing it as a part of the team concept. That’s very important and, in his particular case, should be noted.
“We’ll weigh that. We knew full well that if things really went like we wanted them to go, certainly, we need to think about having some room available if we’re going to pay a second receiver at that level.”
Cowboys Stars Call for George Pickens Extension
The Cowboys’ offense is the best in the league and looked even more dangerous during the Week 7 romp over the Commanders. Dallas racked up 409 yards of total offense and scored 40 points for the third time this season.
Both quarterback Dak Prescott and Lamb have petitioned for Pickens to stick around.
“I feel like my answer is pretty obvious. I think I made that clear when I first came in. There is no ego here,” Lamb said. “I hope he gets everything that he deserves — here — and we just continue to do what we do.”
Prescott said he’d talk to Jones in private about the importance of locking in Pickens.
“I’ve been a little busy, but I will,” Prescott said. “When I run into him in that time of privacy, I’ll make sure.”
The Cowboys moved to 3-3-1 with the victory and will look to keep their momentum rolling against the Denver Broncos next week.
ikings WR Justin Jefferson takes full responsibility for his drop—his shocking words will leave you rethinking his mindset
The Minnesota Vikings lost to the Philadelphia Eagles 28-22. The slim margin of defeat makes Justin Jefferson’s dropped touchdown reception against Eagles cornerback Cooper DeJean stand out, and the All-Pro wide receiver is certainly taking it to heart.
Jefferson finished the game with five receptions for 79 yards. He was officially held out of the end zone following strong comments regarding that aspect of his game before the contest.
After the loss, Jefferson did not mince words about that battle with DeJean.
Vikings WR Justin Jefferson Delivers Blunt Take on Eagles CB Cooper DeJean
DeJean drew attention for his, as Pro Football Focus suggested on X after the play, lockdown coverage on Jefferson on the play during a drive that eventually saw the Vikings settle for a field goal.
Asked if he believed his “drop” was actually DeJean breaking up the pass, Jefferson said, “nah.”
“All respect to him, but that, that’s a catch any day of the week,” Jefferson told reporters on October 19. “I just gotta be more focused into pulling the ball into me and towards instead of just laying the ball out there and letting him just knock the ball out my hand. So, I would say that’s more on me than on him.”
DeJean celebrated the incompletion, as DBs are wont to do. However, it was Jefferson who was touting his abilities and, really, his mindset before the game.
“To be honest, wherever that ball touched my hand, I’m trying to get in that [end]zone,” Jefferson told Vikings legend Randy Moss on “Sunday NFL Countdown” on October 19. “So, it can be in the red zone, it can be from 50, or it might go 97 [yards] again. Who knows?”
Jefferson’s longest reception of the day went for 40 yards on a catch-and-run.
Justin Jefferson Points Out Red Zone Issues
Jefferson said that the Vikings’ struggles in the red zone were due to “just hurting ourselves and just causing us to go backwards instead of forward. We just got to execute our plays to the fullest and just take one play at a time. And when the opportunity comes, make those plays.”
The Vikings were 1-for-6 on the day in the red zone, including Jefferson’s drop.
“One of those red zone drives is – that’s me, dropping a touchdown, and not really pulling the ball all the way in. And I’m always critical on myself,” Jefferson said. “And always, especially when my opportunities are very, very slim. So, those are opportunities, I got to make the most of them.”
Making the most of their opportunities was a theme for the Vikings during Jefferson’s postgame availability.
Justin Jefferson Remains Confident in Vikings
Asked if the Vikings were trying to “figure it out” during the game, Jefferson said. “Yeah and no.”
“Honestly, it’s just executing those plays, those one or two plays, every drive that kind of hurts us and put us in bad positions. But I don’t feel like we’re still trying to ‘find out’ or still trying to ‘figure out what’s going on,’” Jefferson said.
“We understand what’s going on. We have the players out there that make the plays and do what we need to do to go down and score; we just need to finish those drives, especially games like this. We’re competing against a team that just won a Super Bowl. So, plays like that and making the most of those opportunities is the things that count.”
Jefferson and the Vikings will look to regroup in Week 8. They will visit the Los Angeles Chargers on a short week for “Thursday Night Football.”
