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USAT: Cowboys Wire

Mar 12, 2022

The Dallas Cowboys have been making a series of moves over the last week to prepare for this week’s start of the 2022 league year. On Saturday, they made their biggest move yet, and the one whose rumor was the first sign of a potential major shakeup. The Cowboys traded WR Amari Cooper to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a fifth-round pick and improving their sixth rounder. The draft haul wasn’t significant because of how much salary remained on Cooper’s deal. - The Browns absorb Cooper’s remaining three seasons of non-guaranteed money, $60 million total. Dallas got back pick No. 155 and moved from No. 201 to No. 193. Dallas now has picks 128. 155, 167, 176 and 193 on Day 3.  While the compensation doesn’t seem like much, fans should rather look at it as increasing the chances that a Day 3 pick pans out and becomes a real contributor. The real perk though isn’t the pick, it’s the cap flexibility for 2023 and 2024 where Cooper no longer takes $44 million of space. - Moving on from Cooper, along with the other moves this week, jumps the Cowboys up from one of the league’s worst cap situations to No. 14 in current cap space. It could still grow over the next several days. Here’s what’s left on the plate.

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