Cowboys appear ready to let CB Byron Jones walk in free agency

With Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper now five weeks from free agency, the Cowboys have made their priorities clear. That puts the team's other free agents on the back burner and the Cowboys may not view Byron Jones as a player worth a top-market cornerback contract. The Cowboys are leery of a big Jones payment, with Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News reporting they are not warm to the prospect of giving their top cornerback a deal that pays more than $12M per year. Even as the cornerback market has stagnated for several years now, its ceiling hovers well north of that benchmark. Nearly 15 corners make at least $12M annually, and with the converted safety set for free agency in a year that will see the salary cap spike toward $200M, it appears even likelier now that Jones will leave Dallas in March. Jones has become one of the NFL’s top cover men, with the move to corner in 2018 reinvigorating the former first-round pick. But the Cowboys may be underwhelmed by his impact in the takeaway department, per W

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