{"id":229729,"date":"2026-02-21T22:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/cowboys-keep-rb-javonte-williams-with-big-contract-after-breakout-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:29:23","slug":"cowboys-keep-rb-javonte-williams-with-big-contract-after-breakout-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/cowboys-keep-rb-javonte-williams-with-big-contract-after-breakout-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys keep RB Javonte Williams with big contract after breakout season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Even though the 2025 NFL season was another forgettable and underwhelming campaign for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/dallas_cowboys\/51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, there were still some big individual developments that could be important for their long-term outlook. The emergence of running back Javonte Williams was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Cowboys rewarded Williams for his breakout season with a three-year contract that will keep him from reaching unrestricted free agency this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport, Williams&#8217; contract will be a three-year, $24 million contract with $16 million in guaranteed money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Cowboys are betting big on Javonte Williams<\/h2>\n<p>The Cowboys originally signed Williams as a free agent before the 2025 season following four years with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/denver_broncos\/35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Broncos<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams entered the NFL with a fantastic rookie season in 2021, but suffered a devastating knee injury in his second season and never really reached his rookie form for the remainder of his Broncos tenure. The Cowboys took a chance on him with a one-year contract, and he ended up being one of their most effective players on offense.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/cowboys_keep_rb_javonte_williams_with_big_contract_after_breakout_season\/s1_13132_43500115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the 2025 NFL season was another forgettable and underwhelming campaign for the Dallas Cowboys, there were still some big individual developments that could be important for their long-term outlook. The emergence of running back Javonte Williams was one of them. On Saturday, the Cowboys rewarded Williams for his breakout season with a three-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}