{"id":2523,"date":"2025-09-13T20:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:50:54","slug":"cowboys-tyler-smith-agree-to-terms-on-96-million-extension-to-become-highest-paid-guard-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys, Tyler Smith agree to terms on $96 million extension to become highest-paid guard in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n  Smith has been a reliable and versatile fixture on the Cowboys&#8217; offensive line through his first three seasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n  Although he was selected with the 24th-overall pick of the 2022 NFL Draft to play guard, Smith began his career with a position switch, moving to left tackle to supplement an injured Tyron Smith. Tyler Smith would go on to start all 17 games in his rookie season and continue his role as the Cowboys&#8217; versatile option into Year 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n  Smith has since solidified himself as the primary left guard, earning his second consecutive Pro Bowl honor in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n  The Cowboys have been busy the last month in locking up key players to long-term contracts. Smith&#8217;s extension follows those of cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/daron-bland\/\" title=\"DaRon Bland\">DaRon Bland<\/a> and tight end <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/tyler-ferguson\/\" title=\"Tyler Ferguson\">Tyler Ferguson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/cowboys-tyler-smith-agree-to-terms-on-96-million-extension\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith has been a reliable and versatile fixture on the Cowboys&#8217; offensive line through his first three seasons. Although he was selected with the 24th-overall pick of the 2022 NFL Draft to play guard, Smith began his career with a position switch, moving to left tackle to supplement an injured Tyron Smith. Tyler Smith would &#8230; <a title=\"Cowboys, Tyler Smith agree to terms on $96 million extension to become highest-paid guard in NFL\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=2523\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cowboys, Tyler Smith agree to terms on $96 million extension to become highest-paid guard in NFL\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cowboys-Tyler-Smith-agree-to-terms-on-96-million-extension.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}