One thing we can say about the Dallas Cowboys with a high level of certainty is that when it comes to big-time contracts and who gets paid and who doesn’t, the franchise has displayed little to no ability to learn from its mistakes.
Take, for example, the 2 biggest contracts they’ve handed out on defense in the last 5 years — a 5-year, $97.6 million extension for cornerback Trevon Diggs before the 2023 season and a 4-year, $90 million extension for cornerback Daron Bland before the 2025 season.
Diggs didn’t deliver another day of elite play once he signed his deal and was eventually released late in the 2025 season after he missed 31 regular-season games over the last 3 seasons.
Bland seems headed down that same path, which is why Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon put him at the top of his list of the NFL’s “Most Overpaid Players” after the critical phase of the 2026 free agency cycle — although he wasn’t the only one on the roster to catch a stray.
“Quinnen Williams and Kenny Clark were also strong candidates with output that doesn’t align with $20-plus million AAVs, but Bland is the clear-cut winner,” Gagnon wrote on Friday. “The 2022 fifth-round pick has one good season under his belt, but that was enough to earn him a four-year, $90 million deal. He’s missed significant time while being consistently rocked in coverage when on the field the last two seasons, all as the sixth-highest-paid corner in the sport.”
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