As Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season approaches, concerns about CeeDee Lamb’s holdout with the Dallas Cowboys are growing. Even though there hasn’t been much public information about the contract talks, a top NFL insider provided some reassurance to fans.
On ESPN’s NFL Live, Adam Schefter discussed Lamb’s contract situation with the Cowboys and said the deal is “going to get done,” as reported by Blogging the Boys.
“It would be a huge upset if CeeDee Lamb is not there for the start of the regular season…now I don’t know whether they can bridge the differences, which aren’t that much, this week or next week or the week after. But this deal’s going to get done.
It would be shocking and utterly stupid if it did not get done in time for the start of the regular season,” Schefter stated.
“So they’re going to figure out a way. It’s disappointing that it went on as long as it did, but the fact that they can’t get this deal done is hard to imagine…It should be simple to get done.
And the full expectation is it will get done and it will get done in time for the start of the regular season. So this is just a lot of noise until then.”
Despite the Cowboys and Lamb still being at a standstill, and Jerry Jones’ recent comments suggesting a lack of urgency, it seems the two sides might be getting closer to reaching a deal.
Lamb would not be playing in preseason games anyway, but his absence from training camp is not ideal for a Cowboys team that has several questions on the offensive side heading into 2024.
