This would have been a tough deal for the Cowboys to beat, but it doesn’t make losing cornerback Jourdan Lewis any easier.
Money was, this is an assumption, likely an issue, especially with Lewis becoming the game’s highest-paid nickel corner. Jordan Schultz noted he is getting $30M over 3 years.
Lewis was one of the most veteran players on the Cowboys at this point as a third-round draft pick of the team in 2017. He has morphed over that time into one of the more reliable players of the last decade and has carved out quite a special spot in franchise history for himself.