{"id":54191,"date":"2025-05-09T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=54191"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:07:12","slug":"cowboys-pursued-ravens-rashod-bateman-in-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=54191","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Pursued Ravens&#8217; Rashod Bateman In Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 9th, 2025 at 3:27pm CST by Sam Robinson<\/p>\n<div data-swiftype-index=\"true\">\n<p>The Cowboys\u2019 long-running search for an upper-crust No. 2 wide receiver appears to have ended with the <strong>George Pickens<\/strong> trade. Although Dallas does not have assurances Pickens will be more than a one-year rental, the team has an intriguing <strong>CeeDee Lamb<\/strong> complementary piece for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas and Pittsburgh had begun discussing Pickens before the draft, and the NFC East team upped its offer \u2014 to one headlined by a 2026 third-round pick, as opposed to a fourth \u2014 to seal the deal. Prior to that agreement, however, the Cowboys are believed to have called the Ravens about one of their <strong>Zay Flowers<\/strong> supporting-casters.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: Omar Khan Addresses Pickens Trade Decision]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rashod Bateman<\/strong> drew Dallas interest, according to Fox Sports\u2019 Jordan Schultz. The Cowboys and Ravens discussed Bateman, though Schultz adds the conversation did not progress too far. Bateman has not delivered Pickens-level production yet, but the Ravens have shown faith in the 2021 first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>The sides agreed on an extension last year, after Baltimore let <strong>Odell Beckham Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0walk in free agency, and Bateman\u2019s second contract likely led to a higher asking price coming from the AFC North team. The former first-round pick is signed through 2026 at just $6.4MM per year.<\/p>\n<p>Bateman\u2019s production would not warrant a lofty asking price; Pickens has the Minnesota alum lapped there. At 25, Bateman is also more than a year older and carries a notable injury history that Pickens does not. But the Ravens expressed confidence in the former No. 27 overall pick\u2019s trajectory by extending him. The Ravens saw Bateman help <strong>Lamar Jackson<\/strong> to a third first-team All-Pro season by posting a career-high 756 receiving yards and nine touchdowns. The latter number smashed Bateman\u2019s career-best mark, as he had not previously surpassed two TDs in a season.<\/p>\n<p>Not bringing the maturity concerns Pickens does, Bateman also carrying a through-2026 contract \u2014 with base salaries of just $3.75 (guaranteed) and $6.5MM (nonguaranteed) \u2014 would make him a player that would command a reasonable asking price in a trade. The Ravens also did not add a wide receiver until Round 6 in this year\u2019s draft, which came after the team replaced <strong>Nelson Agholor<\/strong> with <strong>DeAndre Hopkins<\/strong> in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Not missing a game due to injury over the past two seasons, Bateman has created some distance from the concerns that developed after an injury-marred 2022 campaign. With Hopkins not delivering too much for a Chiefs team in need at receiver last season, the Ravens will again count on Bateman as their top Flowers sidekick.<\/p>\n<p>As we covered in our latest Trade Rumors Front Office piece, the Steelers have established a decades-long trend of not having two wideouts tied to lucrative contracts. Despite having no franchise-QB salary on their books, the Steelers agreed to part with Pickens for a package headlined by only a third-round pick. Pickens follows <strong>Diontae Johnson<\/strong>, <strong>Chase Claypool<\/strong>, <strong>Martavis Bryant<\/strong> and <strong>Santonio Holmes<\/strong> as <strong>Mike Tomlin<\/strong>-era receivers traded in a contract year. (Pittsburgh also traded <strong>Antonio Brown<\/strong>, but he was not in a walk year in 2019.)<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh had effectively determined it would not extend Pickens, a player Dallas brass will now evaluate. Rather than having Bateman for two more seasons, the Cowboys have Pickens contracted for one and hold exclusive negotiating rights with him until March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to acquiring George Pickens, the Cowboys discussed Rashod Bateman with the Ravens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93,54,1896],"class_list":["post-54191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-rashod-bateman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys Pursued Ravens&#039; Rashod Bateman In Trade - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=54191\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys Pursued Ravens&#039; 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