BREAKING: Cowboys Trading DE Everson Griffen To Lions

October 27, 2020, 4:56pm EST (Updated: December 4, 2022, 6:50pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

The Dallas Cowboys are making a change.

Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Cowboys are trading DE Everson Griffen to the Lions on Tuesday in exchange for a conditional 2021 sixth-round pick.

Trade! #Cowboys DE Everson Griffen is being traded to the #Lions in exchange for draft pick compensation, sources say. Detroit, winners of two in a row, is added a big-time veteran pass-rusher.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 27, 2020

Update: It’s a conditional 6th-round pick to Dallas for Everson Griffin. https://t.co/hHRTROyss6
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 27, 2020

Griffen is owed around half of his $6 million salary for the 2020 season.

The 32-year-old has appeared in seven games for the Cowboys and has recorded 20 tackles, 2.5 sacks and a forced fumble.