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Sources — Cowboys make Tyler Smith NFL’s highest-paid interior OL

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  • Todd ArcherSep 13, 2025, 04:34 PM ET

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      Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.

FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys have made left guard Tyler Smith the highest-paid interior offensive lineman in the NFL.

As sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Smith agreed to a four-year extension worth $96 million that includes $81.2 million in guaranteed money. Kansas City Chiefs guard Trey Smith was the highest-paid guard with a four-year, $94 million deal he signed on July 15.

Tyler Smith was under contract through 2026 after the Cowboys picked up the $21.27 million fifth-year option on his contract. He is now signed through 2030.

Though the team dealt star pass rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers on Aug. 28, Smith is the third player the Cowboys have signed to an extension since training camp began. Tight end Jake Ferguson signed a four-year extension worth up to $52 million that included $30 million guaranteed and a $12 million signing bonus. Last month the Cowboys signed cornerback DaRon Bland to a four-year extension worth up to $92 million that included $50 million guaranteed and a $22 million signing bonus.

All three of the deals were negotiated as the Cowboys kept hope that they could resolve the Parsons situation with an extension.

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Smith was the Cowboys’ first-round pick in 2022, and he has started all 47 games he has played. As a rookie, he moved to left tackle following a training camp in which he played mostly guard after Tyron Smith suffered a hamstring avulsion that required surgery.

In 2023, he moved to left guard, and he has been selected to the Pro Bowl the past two seasons. In 2024, he joined Larry Allen, Zack Martin and Travis Frederick as the only four offensive linemen in team history to garner multiple Pro Bowl appearances in their first three seasons.

On Friday, coach Brian Schottenheimer called Tyler Smith “the best guard in football.”

“I don’t think I’m overselling him,” Schottenheimer said. “I really think he is.”

With the retirement of Martin this offseason, Smith, who is just 24, has become the leader of the offensive line room that projects to start a rookie (right guard Tyler Booker) and two second-year players (left tackle Tyler Guyton, center Cooper Beebe).

“He’s important, the leader, and it’s showing up out here,” Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said on July 27. “I’ve been watching it with his reps. He’ll of course elevate from where he has been the first couple of years. Boy, we’ve got to have his leadership.”



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Brian Quintenz v. Tyler Winklevoss

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CFTC Chair nominee Brian Quintenz posted several messages he’d exchanged with Tyler Winklevoss, seemingly in a bid to get his nomination process back on track.

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The narrative

On Wednesday, at CoinDesk’s Policy and Regulation event, one major topic of conversation was a post from former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Brian Quintenz in which he shared chat logs from a conversation with Gemini co-founder and CEO Tyler Winklevoss, an unexpected move from a former public official waiting for the Senate to confirm him to head up the commodities regulator.

Why it matters

Quintenz’s path to becoming chair of the CFTC seemed clear until late July, when the Senate Agriculture Committee twice postponed a key vote to advance his nomination. The White House asked the committee to pause the vote without initially providing an explanation, though later Winklevoss told CoinDesk he had lobbied the White House to impose that hold. The CFTC is set to become the primary spot market regulator for crypto in the U.S., and is currently helmed by Acting Chair Caroline Pham, who intends to depart the agency after Quintenz’s nomination and no other commissioners. The potential lack of leadership as the agency gets tasked with new mandates could slow down or otherwise complicate any rulemakings it engages in.

Breaking it down

An active nominee awaiting a Senate vote sharing an exchange he had with donors to the president is unusual, to say the least. In his post, Quintenz said he had “never been inclined to release private messages” but that he believed President Donald Trump “might have been misled.”

“I’ve posted here the messages that include the questions Tyler Winklevoss asked me pertaining to their prior litigation with the CFTC,” he said. “I believe these texts make it clear what they were after from me, and what I refused to promise. It’s my understanding that after this exchange they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation be paused for reasons other than what is reflected in these texts.”

The texts he shared showed he had exchanged messages with Winklevoss on July 24 and 25. The first postponed vote in the Senate Agriculture Committee was originally scheduled for July 21, and the rescheduled vote was on July 28. The White House requested at least the second vote be delayed.

Spokespeople for Gemini and the Senate Agriculture Committee did not return requests for comment, and a White House press official could not be reached. Quintenz declined to comment beyond his post when reached earlier this week by CoinDesk.

The messages were about Gemini’s complaint with the CFTC’s Inspector General tied to a CFTC case against the exchange, which was settled earlier this year. Winklevoss asked Quintenz for his thoughts on the complaint, while Quintenz repeatedly said it would be better for “a fully confirmed chair” to weigh in on the matter.

It’s unclear from the messages whether Winklevoss was asking for a quid pro quo (he mentioned that Quintenz had asked for an endorsement) or was just trying to confirm to his own satisfaction that Quintenz would end what Winklevoss described as “lawfare” against Gemini and otherwise reshape the agency to be more industry-friendly.

On Quintenz’s end, his reticence was likely political savvines — if he had made some form of commitment, he may have had to recuse himself from engaging with the issue when he actually gets to the agency. If he made a commitment and it became public prior to a Senate vote, it would also probably become a talking point if there is a debate on his nomination. Quintenz also said in the messages that he did not have “anything close to a full picture of what is going on inside the building,” and that he “decided to wait until I can get into the role to get that view as opposed to trying to get it now through current leadership.”

The timing of Quintenz’s confirmation votes — he needs both the Senate Agriculture Committee to advance him and the entire Senate to confirm him — remain in question. But it’s a sign of how much that process has slowed that he felt posting these messages would help his cause.

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Trump’s CFTC Hopeful Quintenz Takes His Dispute With Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss Public

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Brian Quintez, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, published a text exchange he had with Tyler Winklevoss in his first public statement since his confirmation process appeared to stall over the summer at the White House’s direction, saying he believed that Trump “might have been misled.”

Quintenz shared a series of text messages he said he’d exchanged with Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founder and CEO of crypto exchange Gemini — which is set to go public this week — and Winklevoss Capital. Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler’s twin brother and co-founder, may have also been in the group chat, which was titled “tw-cw-bq” but did not send any messages in the screenshots shared by Quintenz. In the chat, dated July 24, Tyler Winklevoss asked Quintenz if he’d seen a post on X from June 17 where Tyler announced Gemini had filed a complaint with the CFTC’s inspector general about Division of Enforcement attorneys who had pursued charges against Gemini.

“I believe these texts make it clear what they were after from me, and what I refused to promise,” Quintenz said in his posts, representing a highly unusual move for a nominee in the midst of a federal confirmation process. “It’s my understanding that after this exchange they contacted the president and asked that my confirmation be paused for reasons other than what is reflected in these texts.”

Before the Senate left Washington for its August break, Quintenz’s nomination was set for what was thought to be an easy procedural step in the Senate Agriculture Committee to advance it to the floor for his final confirmation vote. But the White House halted that vote for reasons it didn’t make clear at the time, though Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss had been waging a rhetorical campaign to stop his confirmation.

Winklevoss told CoinDesk in an interview in July that he’d been making the case that Quintenz was a bad choice because of the former commissioner’s wish to increase the CFTC budget to oversee the crypto industry, his past views on the legal liability for crypto developers and what Winklevoss characterized as Quintenz’s improper attempts to influence the CFTC on behalf of prediction market firm Kalshi.

Read more: Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss Says Trump CFTC Pick Quintenz Has ‘Disqualifying’ Views

Quintenz’s post on Wednesday suggested that, in his view, Winklevoss was upset that Quintenz did not join in criticism of CFTC’s enforcement efforts after the agency pursued charges against Gemini that were settled in January.

“I know we had spoken about this in the winter where I recalled my original extreme disappointment at [the Enforcement Division] for pursuing this so aggressively,” a text from Quintenz said. “I commit to you to having a fair and reasonable review of the matter and the division and individuals involved to determine if they acted inappropriately.”

He went on to say that a “fully confirmed chair” should be the person to handle the matter, but that if someone currently employed by the CFTC was “communicating with” the Winklevosses, he would have to “give that careful thought.”

Winklevoss asked if Quintenz was saying that Gemini should have waited to file their complaint until after the Senate confirmed the former commissioner, to which Quintenz replied that “any decision or response to your complaint should be made by and given the full weight of the confirmed chair.”

The crypto executive said they had spoken about the CFTC’s enforcement effort against Gemini after Quintenz asked for the Winklevoss brothers’ endorsement in December.

“Cultural reform, which includes rectifying what happened to us, should be the highest priority,” Winklevoss said. “I’d like to understand your thoughts on this and how you plan to align with President Trump and the administration’s mandate to end the lawfare and make amends for it.”

He added that he would “be happy to raise the issue with the president himself” if Quintenz thought he was being undermined by current CFTC employees.

Quintenz, Winklevoss and a spokesperson for Gemini did not immediately return requests for comment. CoinDesk could not independently verify the texts’ authenticity.

In July, a coalition that represented the vast majority of the crypto industry came out to press President Donald Trump to move forward to get Quintenz confirmed, calling him the “right person at the right time” to run the CFTC. Though the Senate has been back from break for a while and has returned to its confirmation work for many of Trump’s appointees, the committee hasn’t yet scheduled a follow-up vote for Quintenz

Meanwhile, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins has been pressing forward on an industry-friendly “Project Crypto” initiative while the temporary chief at the CFTC, Acting Chairman Caroline Pham has been standing in at the sister agency with a similar “crypto sprint.” The two of them have made recent joint moves to clear the regulatory path for digital assets.



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