Jeremy Mincey: Cowboys DE Mincey ends holdout

Dallas Cowboys veteran defensive end Jeremy Mincey has been holding out after initially skipping a flight to training camp, and he’s angling for a new contract with just $1.5 million set to come down the pipes in 2015 in the final year of his deal. The team’s sack leader from 2014 ended a brief holdout and was expected to practice Sunday, August 2, 2015, after missing the first three days of camp, including the first padded practice.

After recording six sacks last season and being 11th in Pro Football Focus’s Pass Rushing Productivity among 4-3 defensive ends last season, Mincey has shown that he’s clearly an asset on the Cowboys defense. He has been hoping for a re-worked contract and the edges had been in discussions on a two-year deal.

“We’re not going to place him on the market and put him in a state of affairs which may compromise him”, Garrett stated. “It was a good conversation”. “We’ll ease him in to practice”.

The Cowboys released Ryan Williams before training camp and the team has Lance Dunbar, Gus Johnson and Lache Seastrunk as the running backs on the roster with McFadden on the PUP list.

At the end of the day, Mincey probably won’t make significantly more money than he is now if the Cowboys give into his demands, but he’ll likely get an added year of security from the Cowboys organization after playing very well in 2014. He was forced to miss a game at Houston in 2013 after being late for a team meeting.

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The 2014 campaign was his best season since 2011 with the Jaguars, when he recorded eight sacks.

Mincey’s role is more of a question this season because the Cowboys picked defensive ends in the second round of the past two drafts and signed an established pass rusher in Greg Hardy in free agency.

The Cowboys are in camp in Oxnard and the team is looking to have a strong performance after the disappointment of last season. “He’s physically tough and he plays hard”. “We played hard, we played tough, we ran to the ball. That positively impacted the games that we played, and I think Mince was a big part of that, establishing that identity, that toughness, that relentlessness”.