As free agency is set to send plenty of veteran players to new clubs for 2023, one Cowboys star is perfectly happy to be remaining right where he is.
He’s even ready to extend his stay.
Quarterback Dak Prescott was on hand Tuesday at a luncheon in downtown Dallas, serving as a guest speaker on the subject of mental health and suicide prevention. But he also took a few moments to chat with reporters, and with so many notable passers on the move right now around the NFL, the topic of Prescott’s time with the Cowboys was a natural.
The 29-year-old is bound to the team through 2024, so he’s not going anywhere in the short-term. But with the team needing to do some work to get under the salary cap, there’s been talk of a restructuring or even an extension of his deal to create extra financial wiggle room for the front office.
Of course, any extension would only tack on years for Prescott to be wearing the silver and blue.
And that’s just fine with No. 4.
“A hundred percent, I’m excited to be a Dallas Cowboy,” Prescott said, via Calvin Watkins on Twitter. “Always dreamed to be here, and now that I’m here, I don’t expect to play for any other team. Now, it’s just about winning.”
That’s the name of the game for every NFL signal-caller, but many of them will find themselves doing it in unfamiliar locations as the offseason QB carousel gets cranked up.
Assuming Aaron Rodgers leaves the Packers, as is widely expected, Prescott- entering just his eighth pro season- will suddenly become the starting quarterback who’s been at the helm with his team the longest.
But as Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said from Indianapolis last week, “We’ve got to have a plan to ultimately extend Dak.”
Jones hinted, though, that an extension might come without a lot of fanfare or publicity, just a necessary bit of bookkeeping that happens behind closed doors one night and is announced the next morning.
That, too, is okay with Prescott, who endured more than his fair share of contract speculation in 2020 and 2021 before finally inking a $160 million four-year pact that’s now halfway up.
“Looking forward to an extension. When that time comes, it will happen,” Prescott explained. “I’m with Stephen; it may just happen overnight. But when it happens, it happens. It’ll be great.”
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