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It could be a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, but with the Dallas Cowboys and the upcoming offseason, every little bit will help. Not only will the team have to figure out its direction after yet another colossal postseason failure, but it will likely dole out very large new contracts to the very players implicated in the failure. With that in mind, the Cowboys are being advised by the contract experts at Spotrac to save about a million bucks while they can in a move that would see the Cowboys’ Jalen Tolbert traded.

Tolbert was the team’s third-round pick in 2022, and while there were points in the season that it appeared he might be ready to step into a No. 2 wide receiver’s role, he never consistently gained the trust of quarterback Dak Prescott and finished the year with 22 catches on 36 targets and 268 yards.

Tolbert had a Pro Football Focus grade of 56.5 this season, which was just 103^rd out of 128 graded receivers.

According to Spotrac, the Cowboys desperately need to clear cap space, and moving Tolbert could help. In its list of “cap-clearing possibilities,” the site wrote: “Trade WR Jalen Tolbert, freeing up $943k of cap. Tolbert has shown glimpses of being able to handle a WR2 role, but the Cowboys aren’t in a position to wait around.”