Cowboys keeping right tackle Doug Free, but cutting salary in half to $3.5 million for 2013
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The Dallas Cowboys have significantly reduced right tackle Doug Free's salary after a difficult season that ended with him as a part-time player.
The Cowboys reworked the final two years of Free's contract, and will he make $3.5 million in 2013 instead of $7 million. Dallas probably would have cut Free if the five-year veteran had rejected a salary cut.
Free is now set to make another $3.5 million in 2014, but that money isn't guaranteed. He originally had $15 million left on the four-year, $32 million deal he signed in 2011.
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Free struggled last year and ended up splitting time with Jermey Parnell over the final four games.
The Cowboys also swapped cornerbacks on their free-agent roster, signing Malik James from Langston and releasing Dustin Harris.