{"id":240768,"date":"2026-04-28T06:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/why-cowboys-wr-george-pickens-delaying-signing-of-franchise-tag-shouldnt-sound-alarms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:05:22","slug":"why-cowboys-wr-george-pickens-delaying-signing-of-franchise-tag-shouldnt-sound-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/why-cowboys-wr-george-pickens-delaying-signing-of-franchise-tag-shouldnt-sound-alarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cowboys WR George Pickens delaying signing of franchise tag shouldn&#8217;t sound alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/dallas_cowboys\/51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> wide receiver George Pickens had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/george_pickens_cowboys_have_three_options_after_he_agrees_to_sign_franchise_tag\/s1_13132_43762810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to sign<\/a> his franchise tag were premature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, ESPN&#8217;s Todd Archer reported Pickens has yet to sign his tender (a fully guaranteed one-year, $27.298M deal). ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a> insider Adam Schefter then said the WR still plans to sign the contract and explained why the transaction has been delayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Adam Schefter explains why George Pickens hasn&#8217;t yet signed his franchise tag\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I was told it was draft weekend and signing the franchise tag wasn&#8217;t the first thing on his mind,&#8221; he said Monday during &#8220;The Pat McAfee Show.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys have just concluded the 2026 NFL Draft, which was held in Pittsburgh. But how does that prevent Pickens from signing the contract?<\/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\/why_cowboys_wr_george_pickens_delaying_signing_of_franchise_tag_shouldnt_sound_alarms\/s1_13132_43779217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that Dallas Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens had agreed to sign his franchise tag were premature.\u00a0 On Monday, ESPN&#8217;s Todd Archer reported Pickens has yet to sign his tender (a fully guaranteed one-year, $27.298M deal). ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter then said the WR still plans to sign the contract and explained why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240769,"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-240768","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\/240768","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=240768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}