Cowboys star G Zack Martin weighing whether to play in 2025

Longtime Dallas Cowboys star guard Zack Martin is pondering whether to play in 2025 and said Tuesday he will make a decision in four to six weeks.The nine-time Pro Bowler missed the last seven games of the season due to season-ending ankle surgery.The 34-year-old Martin said getting healthy is his first priority and then the decision about his playing future will follow.”First off, I want to try to get healthy. Here in the next month, six weeks, me and my wife have been talking about it,” Martin said of his decision timeline. “Right now, I’m focused on getting healthy and seeing how I feel with this ankle kind of repaired and whether or not I’m going to go out and try to go again.”The seven-time first-team All-Pro acknowledged the mental component will also factor in the decision.”Just mentally if I’m ready to, I know what it takes to be an elite player in this league and what all goes into it,” Martin said while in New Orleans for the Super Bowl. “I think I just got to get my head mentally around if I want to commit to that for another year or not.”Another caveat is that Martin’s contract with the Cowboys is up. The potential Pro Football Hall of Famer will become a free agent in March and could leave after 11 seasons and 162 regular-season games (all starts) in Dallas.Mike McCarthy departed as coach after the season so Dallas will have a new head man in Brian Schottenheimer, who was offensive coordinator the past two seasons and on the staff for the last three.