If Tony Romo is cut or traded this offseason, it would end an era in Dallas and give Joe Flacco a lighting-rod label.
Flacco would become the player with the highest salary-cap figure in the NFL in 2017. He is scheduled to count $24.55 million against the cap.
Romo currently owns that title with a $24.7 million cap number, but a source told ESPN's Ed Werder that Romo expects to be released.