Todd Archer26 de ago, 2023, 08:19 ETLectura: 4 min.
Dak Prescott is signed through 2024. He is expected to earn $29 million next season and count $59.4 million against the salary cap.
FRISCO, Texas — In Jerry Jones’ dream world, quarterback Trey Lance never plays a down for the Dallas Cowboys.
Dak Prescott leads the Cowboys to a Super Bowl championship this season for the first time since 1995. He then signs the largest contract in NFL history. Jones, the owner and general manager, who will turn 81 in October, takes comfort in ending a championship drought that has been approaching 30 years. And Lance is moving on after 2024, looking to jumpstart his career again.
But ideal worlds are hard to find, and the addition of Trey Lance, who was acquired from the San Francisco 49ers for a fourth-round pick on Friday, gives the Cowboys some cover.
Dak Prescott during the Dallas Cowboys training camp for the 2023 NFL season.AP
Remember, this is a franchise that, after seeing Troy Aikman retire after the 2000 season, had eight different quarterbacks until Tony Romo, an undrafted free agent in 2003, started in 2006 and held the job for the next 10 seasons.
En ese lapso, eligieron a Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Clint Stoerner, Chad Hutchinson, Vinny Testaverde, Drew Henson y Drew Bledsoe.
Those teams from 2001 to 2005 weren’t ready to win the way the Cowboys believe this team with a core that includes Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs, Zack Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, Tyler Smith, Malik Hooker, Michael Gallup is. and solid young players signed beyond 2023.
Dak Prescott is signed through 2024. He is expected to earn $29 million next season and count $59.4 million against the salary cap. Moving on after this season would be too expensive from a salary cap perspective, but not impossible. Jones has mentioned a desire to extend Prescott’s contract, but there hasn’t been much discussion about a new deal.
Prescott, who turned 30 last month, has missed 17 games over the past three seasons with a dislocated and fractured right ankle, a strained calf and a broken right thumb. Prescott took all replays in the offseason program and training camp for the first time in what he estimated to be four years, saying he feels healthier than ever as the Sept. 10 opener against the Los Angeles Lakers approaches. New York Giants.
Given his age, years as a starter and expectations, he faces a 2023 full of pressure.
Depending on how this season has gone, the Cowboys would at least have to consider taking a quarterback up in the 2024 draft, given the status of Prescott’s contract. Maybe not as high as moving up to the first round to pick a top prospect like Caleb Williams or Drake Maye, but certainly not as low as a late day three pick either.
In Lance, the Cowboys will have their contract rights through 2025 if they exercise their fifth-year option after this season, though that would also be expensive. The Green Bay Packers worked out a fifth-year option for Jordan Love in 2024 by giving him a one-year extension at a lower cost than this season’s option, but they guaranteed him more money up front.
The Cowboys had Lance in the second round, according to multiple sources, and Lance went third overall in the 2021 draft. They’ve been willing to give opportunities to high draft picks that haven’t panned out on other teams over the years. years, like offensive tackle Marc Colombo, a first-round pick by the Chicago Bears in 2002 who was beset by injuries. The Cowboys signed him in 2005 and he was their right tackle for the next five seasons. Hooker, a former first-round pick by the Indianapolis Colts, is another example.
Those two showed they could play. Will Lance really be able to play? Nobody, not even the Cowboys, knows. But the Cowboys’ risk is only a fourth-round pick.
A pick they expect to be at the end of the round because Prescott will deliver.
2023-08-26 12:19:00
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