On Saturday, the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame inducted Nate Newton, a former standout offensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys, along with other individuals.
Six-time Pro Bowler Newton was a member of three Super Bowl-winning teams.
Additional 2024 Class of Inductees include: Roger B. Brown (journalism, posthumously); Fred Whitfield (rodeo); Abron Young, Jr. (coach); Jennifer Bell (basketball), Tamicha Jackson (basketball), Robert Pack Jr. (basketball), Retha Swindell (basketball), Bobby Brooks (football), Marvin Washington (football), Richard Bonner (golf).
The Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame is housed in the African American Museum of Dallas in Fair Park and was founded in 1996.
By the beginning of the next league season, every team must be cap compliant; naturally, this won’t apply to the only teams that are now over the limit and will eventually resort to cost-cutting measures. To make room before free agency, there are tools available including as cuts, reorganisations, and extensions. Numerous incidents have already occurred throughout the league.
This includes defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah being released by the Dolphins and Xavien Howard being cut. The latter will bring Miami far closer to cap compliance once free agency starts, but it cannot be declared a post-June 1 release until then. The Saints have (as usual) restructured to transfer significant commitments into the future, but additional deals on that front will likely
In addition to giving clubs already positioned to lead the group in cap space unexpected spending ability, the roughly $30MM rise from 2023 will facilitate the work of those at the bottom of the list. It is definitely riskier to spend more on backloaded contracts this offseason at the price of future cap room. Nevertheless, each team’s financial planning will be made even more intriguing by the revelation of a higher-than-expected ceiling.
The teams most in need of negotiating a deal to reduce those numbers are the Cowboys and Browns, since Dak Prescott and Deshaun Watson are both expected to have record-breaking contract hits in 2024. An extension would give Dallas, in particular, some much-needed breathing room as well as certainty on his future beyond
With the second and third picks in this year’s draft, the Commanders and Patriots, along with every other team presently ranked in the top six in space, will profit from having a signal-caller on their rookie contracts. Although the Chiefs’ success with Patrick Mahomes’ monstrous extension (and subsequent rework) has shown it is possible to win Super Bowl championships with a significant QB investment on the books, that would allow for an aggressive approach to free agency.
