Star Evaluation: Steady 2018 For Maliek Collins - Rob Phillips Youth Allen Hurns Jersey , Dallas CowboysThe Mothership takes a look at players under contract for next season and project what the future holds for them. In this piece, Maliek Collins takes the spotlight. 13 prospects who should blow up the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine- Gavino Borquez, Draft WireWho are some names to keep an ear out for entering the combine? Here are 13 prospects, including a defensive tackle we keep hearing about. NFL Mock Draft Round 2 2019 Picks 33-64 - Staff, DrafttekIn their latest mock, Drafttek has another defensive tackle falling to the Cowboys. NFL Draft Prospects with the Biggest Red Flags - Gary Davenport, Bleacher ReportThe Cowboys have rolled the dice in the second round before, but would they still consider doing that since it’s their first pick of the draft? What if a first-round talent at a position of need falls? Would Jerry be able to say no? Davenport examines some red-flag guys, including a talented DT the Cowboys could certainly use. 2019 NFL Mock Draft 13.0: Post-Super Bowl 2-round mock draft - Ben Standig, NBC SportsThe Cowboys have taken a defensive end within the first two rounds in three of the last five drafts. Would they dare entertain the idea of doing it again? One mock has them doing just that. 2018 Draft Class Season Review: DE Dorance Armstrong - Kevin Brady, Inside The StarBut let’s not forget that Cowboys already have a young Allen Hurns Jersey Stitched , developing edge rusher on the roster. 5 Players who need more playing time in 2019 - Randy Gurzi, NFL Spin ZoneHere are five players who need more opportunities, including that Armstrong fella who still offers a lot of upside. What a deep TE Draft class means for TEs in free agency - Reid Hanson, FansidedCould a deep tight end draft class cause the value of free agents to drop? If so, that could open the door for the Cowboys to find one at a reasonable cost. 5 realistic free agency targets for the Cowboys in 2019 - C.C. Boorman, Cowboys WireFree agency is just over a month away, but who will the Cowboys realistically target? Why sign speedy wide receivers now? - Terence Watson, The Landry HatThe Cowboys have a need for speed, or at least that’s what it looks like after they just signed a couple speedy receivers to future contracts. Terence Watson has his own theory about these signings. Fantasy football wish list 2019: Dallas Cowboys - Daniel Kelly, Pro Football FocusPro Football Focus takes a stroll around the league and gathers a “wish list” for what they would like each team to do in terms of fantasy purposes. But nothing is more powerful than the Amari-effect. No matter what you do, long-term contracts are inherently risky."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Dallas Cowboys NewsDallas Cowboys Podcasts & VideosLong-term contracts are always a risk Youth Antwaun Woods Jersey , recent history shows that for the CowboysNew,88commentsNo matter what you do, long-term contracts are inherently risky.CDTShareTweetShareShareLong-term contracts are always a risk, recent history shows that for the CowboysWhen DeMarcus Lawrence signed his long-term deal with the Dallas Cowboys I couldn’t help but retreat back to one thought:This hasn’t exactly gone well for the Cowboys in recent memory.To be clear here, I’m talking about big-time deals for big-time dudes. Tank is of the franchise cornerstone variety, you don’t hand out extensions like that just because (as evidenced by how long Lawrence’s contract took). There are those extensions that a team signs a player to that the rest of the NFL takes notice of, Lawrence’s contract certainly fits that bill.While we’re all hoping (with definite reason to believe) that Lawrence will live up to the expectation a mammoth deals bring, the reason I kept going back to that thought was that the previous two extensions Dallas signed like that didn’t exactly work out so swell. The Cowboys passed on signing DeMarco Murray to a deal like that, but they locked down Tony Romo and Dez Bryant to those huge extensions. Again... not so swell results.Tony Romo: Signed a six-year, $108M deal with Cowboys in 2013. He only started 34 more games after that.Dez Bryant: Signed a five-year, $70M deal with Cowboys in 2015. He only started 38 more games after that.The Cowboys barely got two seasons out of both Romo and Bryant after they signed them to contracts that put them among the highest-paid people at their respective positions. While there were definitely moments that made us smile Antwaun Woods Jersey Stitched , there’s no getting around that, those deals were failures in the sense of the intended life of them.Long-term deals are always going to be a risk, we know thatThese days the subject of long-term deals runs rampant when it comes to the Cowboys as there are so many hanging in the balance. Amari Cooper is up for a new contract, Ezekiel Elliott is as well, Byron Jones is going to need to get paid, and oh yea Dak Prescott is eligible for a new deal.Prescott’s deal in particular is the one that sets conversations ablaze as there are so many different ideas on whether paying him is the absolutely correct, or utterly disastrous, move for the team. I spoke to the mothership’s David Helman on the latest episode of The Ocho on the BTB podcast feed (subscribe here), believe it or not it’s possible to talk about it rationally without everything falling apart.The Ocho with special guest David HelmanOdds are very slim, or rather they’re not exponentially high, that the Cowboys are going to sign all of these guys to long-term deals and that they’ll all end up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. These types of contracts are risks and you have to be as calculated as you can be with them Youth Deonte Thompson Jersey , Stephen Jones is very good at that. The difference now is that the players we’re talking about the Cowboys signing are all young and ascending. When they paid Romo, more specifically Dez, they were paying for past production. The trajectories of Dak, Zeke, Amari, Lawrence, and Byron all appear to be rising. That is the type of thing that mitigates the risk.Dallas finds themselves in a treacherous situation with all of these looming deals. There are a number of ways that everything can finish, but if they do their homework they can maximize the window of good ones and hope to end up there when it’s all said and done.