SAD NEWS: Dallas Cowboys announced that Michael Gallup is Leaving immediately after Facing…..
A decision regarding the future of Michael Gallup is no longer on the horizon for the Dallas Cowboys, it’s on the front porch.
The veteran wide receiver finds himself wedged between a downturn in production and the team’s challenges with the salary cap this offseason and, as such, he’s reportedly been granted permission to seek a trade, per multiple reports.
Speaking from the 2024 NFL Combine, owner and general manager Jerry Jones confessed to no decision having, at the time, been made in regards to Gallup — a statement that largely hinted at a potentially practical parting of ways if no resolution could be agreed to.
‘It’s one that we’ll be going over with him, but nothing that we would say without him being involved,” said Jones in February.
“We need to sit down and go over some stuff with him before we talk about what we’re going to do, or not.”
The topic of a potential trade was indeed broached during the 2023 regular season, but it was ultimately tabled until the offseason, where it’s now again being revisited, and with traction.
If no trade partner is located, it’s possible Gallup could be released as a cap casualty.
The 28-year-old is currently set to hit the Cowboys’ salary cap for a combined $45.6 million over the next three seasons ($13.85 million in 2024 and then $15.85 million per annum thereafter) in the final two years of a five-year deal that was inked in March 2022.
That is a massive hit that isn’t justified by utilization or his trend in production, so while Gallup has remained the consummate professional and mentor for younger receivers as he battled back from a torn ACL suffered in 2021, the numbers are working far too wildly against him following the 2023 season.
