Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott enters the upcoming 2024 season on the final year of his four-year, $160 million contract while carrying a cap hit of $55.5 million, the second-highest in the entire NFL in 2024 behind only Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s $63.8 million cap charge.
There was plenty of urgency for Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones to get a long-term extension done with Prescott, the 2023 NFL MVP runner-up after leading the league with 36 touchdown passes, prior to the start free agency because spreading out his cap hits could have allowed for Dallas to be active this offseason. Now that the opportunity to do so has passed, the impetus now for Jones to get a deal done with Prescott is simply to avoid another market jump like the one that occurred when the Jacksonville Jaguars re-signed quarterback Trevor Lawrence to a five-year, $275 million extension on June 13. That could happen with both Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love and Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa also seeking new deals entering the last year of their existing ones in 2024.
According to what Prescott himself said Tuesday, the negotiations are still ongoing. While this update sounds obvious, both Prescott and Jones revealed that “real talks” had yet to begin at the end of April just before the start of the 2024 NFL Draft.
“There’s been conversations back and forth, but for the most part for me as y’all know, I let my agent (Todd France) do that, especially as we get right here into training camp,” Prescott said Tuesday, via The Athletic, at his camp in Southlake, Texas. “Day 1 of training camp, my mind flips to obviously helping my team and just doing everything I can within the organization and on the football field to make sure that I’m my best and everyone around me is their best. The money and all that will take care of itself as it always has.”
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-07-09 17:20:42
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