News broke on Monday that the Cowboys had restructured the contracts of Tyron Smith and Travis Frederick, thereby freeing up roughly $17.3 million of cap space and easily getting the team under the 2017 salary cap.
But there may be more moves in store for the Cowboys, and the Cowboys will not be alone with these moves. Most teams around the league have to do some creative accounting to get under the salary cap by March 9. For most teams, this will mean restructuring contracts, signing cap-friendly contract extensions, asking players to take pay cuts or downright releasing players.