The Dallas Cowboys already had an intensive to-do record this offseason, and now they’ve yet another massive merchandise so as to add to it.
Discovering a alternative for guard Zack Martin.
Martin reportedly knowledgeable the Cowboys on Thursday that he plans to retire this offseason, leaving an enormous gap on the crew’s offensive line.
It was fully doable the Cowboys had been going to should discover a alternative for Martin whether or not he got here again for one more season or not as a result of he was set to be a free agent this spring. However there nonetheless would have been the potential of re-signing him if he wished to play one other season. Now that possibility can also be off the desk.
Martin, who turned 34 this previous season, was among the best inside lineman of his period and a dominant pressure at proper guard in Dallas for the previous 11 seasons.
He was a first-round draft pick of Notre Dame in 2014 and was an prompt star within the league.
Throughout his 11-year profession, he was a first-team All-Professional seven occasions and a second-team All-Professional twice. He had solely two years within the league the place he didn’t obtain some kind of All-Professional honor, and a kind of seasons was the 2024 marketing campaign that was lower quick attributable to damage. The opposite was the 2020 season when he was restricted to simply 10 video games.
In different phrases, if Martin performed something even near a full season, he was just about an All-Professional lock. That kind of resume ought to make him a simple first-ballot Corridor of Famer as quickly as he’s eligible.
The Cowboys are coming into an enormous offseason beneath first-year head coach Brian Schottenheimer. Together with discovering upgrades for a roster that gained solely seven video games, additionally they have to fret about contract extensions for a number of key gamers together with edge-rusher Micah Parsons.
Now discovering a brand new proper guard — and chief — goes to maneuver to the highest of the record.
