Getting this deal done avoids the Cowboys needing to use the franchise tag on Odighizuwa, which would’ve been the seventh time in the past eight years they’d done so. The last two players Jerry Jones slapped the tag on were Tony Pollard in 2023 and Dalton Schultz the year before that. Neither would end up signing long-term deals to stay in Dallas.

The Dallas Cowboys are getting busy in the final days before free agency. On Tuesday, they signed defensive tackleOsa Odighizuwa to a four-year, $80 million contract that brought him back into the fold before he was allowed to hit free agency -- and without having to use the franchise tag to do it.

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