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Free will remain with the Cowboys after agreeing to a pay cut as part of a new two-year contract that will pay him $7 million total in 2013 and 2014, according to multiple sources Thursday.

"I'd like to keep him," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Friday. "We think that Doug Free can be an important part of the team.

Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith gets to the Cowboys' practice facility in Valley Ranch at about 6:30 a.m. to workout before he attends "teaching sessions" with coaches.

The right tackle offered little of substance about his future Wednesday at The Ballpark in Arlington during the Cowboys' charity fundraiser benefiting The Salvation Army.

Now that veteran Tyson Clabo is off the market, the Dallas Cowboys have lost a slice of leverage in their standoff with right tackle Doug Free .

It was about three weeks ago that the Cowboys asked Free, who is coming off the worst season of his career, to either take a pay cut or risk being released.

It has been more than two weeks since the Dallas Cowboys told Doug Free to take a pay cut or risk being cut, and Jerry Jones said that the team could hear something from Free's camp as early as this week.

With the draft in the rearview mirror, what is the most pressing issue on each NFC East team's agenda? Dallas Cowboys : Figure out right tackle.

For the second time in three days, reports emerge that the Cowboys are looking at a free agent tackle.

A few weeks ago, the Dallas Cowboys asked the high-priced and underachieving right tackle Doug Free to take a pay cut.

More than two weeks ago, the Dallas Cowboys asked right tackle Doug Free to take a pay cut to stay on the team or decline and risk being cut.

Well, the first round of the draft is over, and Dallas is on the other side with brand new center/guard Travis Frederick .

After watching their main targets get picked ahead of them, the Dallas Cowboys took center Travis Frederick of Wisconsin with the 31st selection in the NFL draft Thursday night after trading down 13 spots in a deal with San Francisco.

The day of reckoning is finally upon the anxious Cowboys Nation. As most Cowboys fans would agree, a sense of relief has engulfed my bones.

Tyron Smith, left, is the only offensive linement the Cowboys have drafted in the first round during the Jerry Jones era.

Heading into the 2013 season, there are several position groups that could be seen as dominant for the team.

The Dallas Cowboys went 30 years without drafting an offensive lineman in the first round.