FRISCO – The Dallas Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott are committed to each other. For better or for worse.
Having agreed to a record-breaking contract extension in September of 2024 – while the involved parties were all in Cleveland, ironically, prepping for a Week 1 game at the Browns – Prescott is now entering 2025 with a four-year deal worth $240 million. … which even these months later, at $60 million APY, makes the Pro Bowl QB the highest-paid player in NFL history.
Dallas can get out of this deal after the four years, of course. And there is escapability, to a degree, after two years.
Any breakup that would come before that would be crippling to Dallas – on the roster maybe, but cap-wise, for certain.
And therefore, a breakup is highly unlikely.
That hasn’t stopped the haters and the speculators from trying, though.
The latest attempt at this is a comical one, coming out of Cleveland and starring a veteran sportscaster there named Bruce Drennan.
It is Drennan’s claim that the Cowboys and the Browns are as you read this working on a top-secret trade that would send Prescott to Cleveland.
Drennan, via his YouTube channel, first says he has a reliable source in the Browns organization who is telling him this.
He later claims that his has multiple sources from inside the Cleveland franchise and that he has details … and that the Browns would ship cornerback Greg Newsome II and some sort of draft compensation to Dallas in exchange for Prescott.
Social media has been sent into a frenzy … especially among fans who are understandably confused by the cap-and-contract related minutia that would preclude such a deal.
To wit, our Cowboys insider Mike Fisher points out the 3 gigantic obstacles to this goofy fantasy …
From Fish: “First, a Prescott trade would create a dead-money problem totaling $148 million. Second, the Browns’ present ‘effective cap space’ is $10 million. So they couldn’t do it. And third, Dak has a no-trade clause and no reason to waive it so he can uproot his family and move to Cleveland.”
We might also note that Cleveland already has $172 million of dead money locked up in Deshaun Watson, so there’s not much bend there, either.
We’re aware that old friend Dez Bryant and others have triggered speculation that Shedeur Sanders might somehow be drafted by Dallas. And we will politely characterize that as a “fun idea.”
But the bogus “sources claim”? That’s not “fun.” It’s rather gross, really. … though Fish adds one more take ..
“I’m working on the assumption,” Fish says, “that this is some sort of a comedy bit from ‘The Cleveland Laugh Factory’ or something.”
