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Report: Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott has flight booked from Cabo with Deal 'imminent'

Report: Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott has flight booked from Cabo with Deal 'imminent'
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Report: Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott has flight booked from Cabo with Deal 'imminent'
Report: Cowboys Ezekiel Elliott has flight booked from Cabo with Deal 'imminent'

FRISCO - The Ezekiel Elliott holdout saga looks to finally be heading towards a resolution, with multiple reports surfacing on Friday that a deal is imminent between the Dallas Cowboys and their star running back. 

Sources have informed 105.3 the Fan's Kevin Turner and Jonathan Shipman that Elliott, who has been in Cabo San Lucas training during the holdout, has booked a flight to return to the DFW area this weekend in anticipation of a deal. 

Per NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, Elliott has been recently assisted in his training by Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk during the holdout. 

Sources also indicated to The Fan that Elliott will not miss any regular-season games and that the deal will be agreed to soon after his return to the DFW. 

Other reports, including one from our own Mike Fisher almost over two weeks ago, suggest that Elliott's contract is set to make him one of the two highest-paid backs in the NFL. 

Such a deal would place him just behind Rams star Todd Gurley, who signed a $60 million deal with $45 million guaranteed last offseason, and ahead of Le'Veon Bell, who signed a four-year $52 million deal with $27 million guaranteed with the Jets.

The Cowboys recently agreed to an extension with star linebacker Jaylon Smith that will make him a top-five paid player at his position. 

"This was a team move we are talking about today," Jerry Jones said of the deal. "The team takes precedence. And I've got the backbone to keep it that way."

Despite the Smith extension taking up part of 'the pie', however, the Cowboys mission to extend all three of their young offensive stars might be heading closer to reality with each passing day. Worth noting, though: Turner's report is about Zeke "booking'' a flight, not necessarily being on it. (KT was the media person who broke the news of Zeke going to Cabo in the first place, so his voice matters here.) Rap's note that Faulk is Cabo-bound would seem to be a suggestion to tap the brakes on some of these travel plans. (Unless maybe it's charity-related?)

But Fish agrees with Shipman about the moving-forward optimism.

"We obviously have a feel, and still do. We want to get Amari and Zeke and Dak signed," Jones said. "That's still huge for us and we're very optimistic."

The Cowboys will open the regular season on September 8 at home against the New York Giants, hopefully with Elliott in tow. 

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MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan is the Managing Editor and Publisher of Texas Longhorns On SI and Texas A&M Aggies On SI and a long-time member of the Football Writers’ Association of America. He graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry in 2014, covering the Dallas Mavericks and SMU Mustangs with 247Sports. He then moved to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, eventually taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of the Longhorns and Aggies sites a year later. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels, including Twitter on @MattGalatzan.

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