Cowboys pick up 5th-year option on LT Tyron Smith

IRVING, Texas -- The Cowboys are exercising the fifth-year option for left tackle Tyron Smith while maintaining plans designed to make the young Pro Bowler a Cowboy for life.



Exercising the fifth year had to happen May 3 to keep Smith from being a 2015 free agent. The option will pay Smith $10.039 million in 2015 (the transition tag for a top-10 offensive lineman). But the Cowboys and Smith --  the ninth pick overall in the 2011 draft and at 23 already an elite tackle -- will nevertheless continue working out a multi-year deal.



"Tyron is going to be a Cowboy," agent Joe Panos recently told 105.3 The Fan's "New School." "and he's going to be for a long time."