DALLAS (105.3 The Fan) - Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl receiver Amari Cooper has not been "shot in a Dallas parking lot,'' says the Dallas Police Department, debunking a rumor that is making social-media rounds on Wednesday.
"There has been a tweet going viral that Amari Cooper has been shot in the Dallas area,'' Dallas PD tweets at 12:19 p.m. "We have NOT found any validity to that tweet occurring in the city of Dallas.
"I love it here,'' Cooper recently said. "I want to be here. I just love this situation, my teammates. I just feel it’s the place for me.”
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has said the same.
"I have no reason to think Amari Cooper won't finish his career with the Dallas Cowboys,'' Jones has said.
Cooper, 25, may end up at $20 million APY (or in a worst-case scenario, an offseason tag while negotiations continue) and this team, with $80-million-plus in cap room for 2020, has a big chunk of that intentionally ear-marked for Cooper.
"We're proud to have Amari,'' Jerry recently said, reflecting on that October 2018 trade that sent a first-round pick to the Raiders. "He's impactful to our team. That's exactly what we used that pick for. He's certainly performed at the level that we had anticipated.''
Added Cooper on his future in Dallas: "I’ve approached the situation like, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. ... Why would I want to change things?”