Cowboys can create $65M cap space without extending Dak Prescott

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The Cowboys began preparation for the new league year in earnest on Friday, executing a conversion trigger on the final year of Zack Martin’s contract. The nine-time All-Pro (seven times First-Team) will still make his $18 million in base salary for 2024, but Dallas pushed $13 million into future years salary cap to create just enough room to be compliant before Wednesday’s 4pm eastern deadline.Dallas now has just under $2 million of cap space. Clearly, even if they intend to do their every-season-since-2012 bargain shopping, they’ll need to create a bunch of more room. Fortunately, there’s an easy path to do this. Several NFL teams have been busy releasing players over the last week, but Dallas has not yet. The takeaway is that they are carefully weighing out the pros and cons of what they’ll need to do. Dallas more than likely has planned out their free agency wishlist and could wait to trigger their cap saving moves until they have an agreement with a target in place. That’s a conversation that starts with Dak Prescott, but hardly ends there.Here’s a look at a series of moves available to them once they start to have in-depth conversations when the legal tampering window opens on Monday.

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