Cowboys hope to extend QB Dak Prescott despite no offers, imminent talks on new long-term deal

Kirk Cousins was the uncommon longtime beginning quarterback to hit the NFL’s open market in 2024. Dak Prescott may very well be subsequent in 2025. Regardless of not too long ago expressing confidence in securing a brand new long-term cope with the Dallas Cowboys, Prescott is now on monitor to play out his present contract in 2024, according to NFL Media, with no indicators of a direct extension.

Prescott and the Cowboys have “a mutual understanding of his contract scenario,” per Ian Rapoport, “with no presents from Dallas regardless of him being in a contract yr.” Group proprietor Jerry Jones, in the meantime, mentioned Tuesday at NFL house owners conferences that the Cowboys “are the place we’re, locked and loaded for this yr” with regard to a possible extension.

CBS Sports activities HQ Senior NFL Insider Josina Anderson has since reported Dallas does, actually, intend to reach a new deal with Prescott, and is “not presently charting a path to let” the quarterback take a look at free company in 2025, however famous no talks are “imminent.”

The information marks a stark distinction to Prescott’s personal framing of the scenario earlier this month, when the Professional Bowl quarterback instructed reporters he was “undoubtedly assured” he’d strike a brand new cope with Dallas forward of the 2024 season.

“Clearly it helps the workforce,” he mentioned on the time. “It is essential for the (salary-cap) numbers. I’ve heard Jerry say that. … Each side perceive that. All the things is nice. It will occur.”

Since then, Jones has notably reversed course on the notion the Cowboys are “all in” on the 2024 marketing campaign, revealing this week Dallas could must “do extra with (much less)” because of monetary obligations. Prescott, in the meantime, is owed greater than $55 million in 2024 — greater than all however one different quarterback within the NFL — as a part of a four-year, $160 million extension he signed in 2021.

It ought to be famous that Prescott’s present deal contains no-tag and no-trade clauses, that means within the absence of an extension or an authorized transfer to a different workforce forward of the commerce deadline, the ninth-year veteran will hit free company after the 2024 season.

Prescott had one in every of his most prolific seasons in 2023, main the NFL with 36 landing passes whereas guiding Dallas to a 3rd straight playoff look. He and the Cowboys went one-and-done within the postseason for the second time in three years, nonetheless, and he enters 2024 looking for simply the third playoff victory of his total profession.