The Dallas Cowboys have a lot of major question marks on their roster in 2025 and not a lot of salary cap space to play around with at this point. The Cowboys are in the bottom 10 of the NFL in overall cap space despite the potential of an astronomical raise up to $281 million.
This kind of sticky situation is something the Cowboys can't just easily get out of, either. They don't have a ton of players on the roster right now who offer huge flexibility with the money they can save the team and not much dead money to have to deal with.
In many of the cases on the current Cowboys roster, they would have to eat a significant amount of dead money in order to get the cap savings in the first place, and that isn't even considering the roster holes that would open up by cutting certain guys.
But where there's a will, there's a way. And the Cowboys certainly have to find a way because they spent so much on players like Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb last year. An extension for Micah Parsons would help a ton, but there are some players whose future with the team is probably less than a couple of weeks at this stage.
Who could be cut soon?
1. Donovan Wilson, Safety
The current landscape of the safety position in the NFL could be characterized as "oversaturated" to say the very least. There are so many safeties available right now, and Donovan Wilson just recently 30 years old with a cap hit of $8.65 million.
The Cowboys could save $5.35 million by cutting him before June 1 and $7 million if they designate him as a post-June 1 cut, but they would need the savings now.
Wilson is coming off of a season with over 1,000 snaps played under defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, but with the Cowboys' depth at the position and the potential to add guys for cheaper, it might be the right time to move on considering how desperate they are for cap savings.