It’s very possible that, when this era of Dallas Cowboys football comes to an end, we will look back and agree that the team’s best player of the decade was its 2011 first-round pick, Tyron Smith.



Smith has been selected to every single Pro Bowl from 2013 through 2018 and the far more prestigious All-Pro team from 2013 through 2016 (2nd team in 2013 and 2015; 1st team in 2014 and 2016). Over the course of his eight seasons with the team, he has won nearly every single battle at the line of scrimmage. He has taken on every heavyweight, and you can list his losses on a very small piece of paper. He is what a Hall of Famer looks like years before he is actually enshrined.



It gets better. With two full seasons left on his rookie deal in July 2014, Smith signed an eight-year extension worth $98 million to make his entire contract with the team an enormous ten-year, $109 million pact. The deal has already been restructured many times, but as of today, the team...