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Getty Images Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli was defensive line coach in Tampa Bay while Barry Sanders was in Detroit, and Marinelli found out the hard way how hard stopping Sanders can be. Now Marinelli has similar concerns about Giants running back Saquon Barkley heading into...

Getty Images Giants rookie Daniel Jones isn’t starting. That much everyone already knew. Eli Manning will start his 231st career game on Sunday. Eventually, Jones will start for the Giants. For now, he will back up Manning. Giants coach Pat Shurmur announced after Friday’s practice that...

Getty Images The clock is ticking on the Cowboys, with their season opener less than 48 hours away. But they still have hopes of getting a deal completed with Dak Prescott before kickoff against the Giants. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Friday the sides are negotiating...

Getty Images The NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Packers and it continues with 13 more games on Sunday, which means that the 26 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. Questionable players are uncertain to play, doubtful players are...

Getty Images The Cowboys signed Ezekiel Elliott to a rich extension this week. His followed defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, linebacker Jaylon Smith and right tackle La'el Collins. Quarterback Dak Prescott appears to be next. So where does that leave receiver Amari Cooper? “There haven’t...

Since Ezekiel Elliott is on the Cowboys’ reserve/exempt list, the team doesn’t have to list his participation on the practice report. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett, though, said Thursday that the star running back went through a limited practice Wednesday. “Zeke did a great job,” Garrett said...

There were some contentious moments between the Cowboys and running back Ezekiel Elliott on the way to this week’s agreement on a six-year extension, including a quip by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that didn’t land well with Elliott’s camp. Jones said “Zeke who?” when asked about Elliott after a...

Ezekiel Elliott has his deal. Dak Prescott still is waiting. Elliott wants for Prescott what he got for himself in becoming the highest-paid running back in football with a six-year, $90 million extension. “I want to see it get done. I want to play with him for the rest of my career,” Elliott...

The full contract is in, so let’s break it down from start to finish. The full Ezekiel Elliott deal, spelled out below. Here are all the details: 1. Signing bonus: $7.5 million. 2. 2019 base salary: $752,137, fully guaranteed at signing. 3. 2020 base salary: $19.8 million, fully guaranteed...

Getty Images When it comes to new-money average, Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott beat Rams running back Todd Gurley by $625,000 per year — $15 million to $14.375 million. But there are more factors to the Elliott vs. Gurley contract than new-money average. So let’s compare the two...

Getty Images In his seventh season, Cowboys center Travis Frederick has experienced a number of firsts. He is coming back after missing all of last season with Guillain-Barré syndrome, so there was the first practice and the first preseason game. Sunday marks his first regular-season action...

Getty Images It’s probably a pretty good bet that at some point this season Daniel Jones takes over as the Giants’ quarterback of the present as well as their quarterback of the future. If not this season, then next. Until then, Eli Manning is the team’s starter, and he’s going to enjoy every...

Getty Images The Cowboys welcomed Ezekiel Elliott back to the team facility early Wednesday morning. “It’s great to have him back,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. “He was here this morning in our breakfast club meeting at 7:30 and went through the walkthrough, and I anticipate him...

Ezekiel Elliott went to bed in a “bad place” Tuesday night, not knowing whether he would practice Wednesday or not. It took more than one phone call to wake him up at 6:15 a.m. to deliver the good news. It took a 40-day holdout for Elliott to get the deal he was seeking. “I think I learned...

Ezekiel Elliott has not talked to Jerry Jones in months. Not even after signing his new deal Wednesday. As the Cowboys made Elliott the highest-paid running back in football, the Cowboys owner was ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. “Honestly, I didn’t talk to Jerry at...

Getty Images The Giants signed Mike Remmers to fill their right tackle spot and help provide them with better offensive line play than they managed during the 2018 season, but he wasn’t on the field to start the first practice week of the regular season. Remmers was one of three players who...

Getty Images Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott will make more than $50 million in the first four years of his new contract. PFT has obtained the contract, which has a signing bonus of $7.5 million, a fully guaranteed 2019 base salary of $752,137 and a fully guaranteed 2020 option bonus/base...

Getty Images In any negotiation, the most important dynamic becomes the presence of a real deadline that both sides recognize to be a real deadline. If the Cowboys and running back Ezekiel Elliott are motivated to get the player on the field on Sunday against the Giants, the deadline is here...

Getty Images Running back Ezekiel Elliott returned to Dallas on Tuesday and it looks like he’ll be back with the Cowboys on Wednesday. Todd Archer of ESPN.com reports that Elliott and the Cowboys have agreed to terms on a six-year deal. PFT reported on Tuesday that a six-year deal worth $90...

Getty Images Tuesday brought word that Ezekiel Elliott and the Cowboys were close to finalizing a six-year, $90 million contract extension and Wednesday morning brought reports that the deal was done. In what the Cowboys called “the post you’ve all been waiting for” on the Twitter account, the...