{"id":23761,"date":"2025-02-06T02:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2025-02-06T02:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:35:17","slug":"breaking-cowboys-predicted-to-add-steal-qb-in-brian-schottenheimer-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23761","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys Predicted to Add \u2018Steal\u2019 QB in Brian Schottenheimer Move.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2180272588-1-e1738775081185.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2180272588-1-e1738775081185.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2180272588-1-e1738775081185.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2180272588-1-e1738775081185.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys potential draftee Tyler Shough\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"892\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1227\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Cowboys potential draftee Tyler Shough<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is true that, heading into the 2025 offseason, the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0have a long list of issues that require attention. They need a No. 2 wide receiver, they need to figure out what to do with\u00a0Rico Dowdle\u00a0and the\u00a0 future of the running back position. The Cowboys need depth and experience on the offensive line. They need to remake the defensive line and need help at safety.<\/p>\n<p>There probably is not much confidence, as things stand, in the ability of Jerry Jones and the team\u2019s ramshackle front office to actually make these moves, and execute them well. But in the shuffle of what\u2019s going on with the Cowboys depth chart, it\u2019s important, too, that they not forget one critical role on this team.<\/p>\n<p>Backup quarterback. And with offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer making the move to head coach, it\u2019s going to get attention.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the Cowboys carried two quarterbacks for the entire 2023 and 2024 seasons, having made an ill-advised deal for\u00a0Trey Lance\u00a0at the end of the 2023 training camp. Lance, ultimately, could not even beat out backup\u00a0Cooper Rush\u00a0on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>But now both Rush and Lance are free agents, and Dallas might be reluctant to pay decent money to a No. 2, not while\u00a0Dak Prescott is on a record-setting $240 million deal. Thus, the Cowboys may well look to the NFL draft to fill the role.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Could Pick Dak Prescott\u2019s Backup<\/h2>\n<p>With Prescott in place, the Cowboys could be willing to gamble on a cheap alternative at QB2. They did sign Will Grier, who has been with the team in two training camps, to a reserve\/future contract last month, and he could be given a chance to finally win the job.<\/p>\n<p>But even if Grier is a QB2 candidate, expect Dallas to seek to bolster the depth behind Prescott. With that in mind,\u00a0Cowboys Wire\u2019s latest mock draft, built \u201cassuming Schottenheimer has a high degree of influence,\u201d has them taking a gamble on a QB with potential\u2013Louisville\u2019s Tyler Shough, whom the site projects landing with Dallas with a sixth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cupboards are bare in the quarterback room behind Dak Prescott and every new offensive coach wants a new QB to groom in the background so using one of the Day 3 picks for a project passer makes sense for the franchise,\u201d the site\u2019s Reid Hanson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShough is an intriguing prospect because of the skillset he possesses. \u00a0At 6-foot-5, 225 pounds, he\u2019s built like a pro QB. He has legitimate arm talent, excellent athleticism and proven scrambling ability. His mechanics and footwork can get sloppy but he\u2019s a great value in Round 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Tyler Shough Moving Up on Draft Boards?<\/h2>\n<p>In a draft that is especially weak at quarterback, Shough is rated the 12th-best QB\u00a0prospect by Pro Football Focus, and the 206th-best prospect overall. That means he is on the fringe of not getting drafted at all. While he is physically ideal as a QB prospect, he is also 25\u2013he was on the rather unique seven-year collegiate plan, playing three years at Oregon and three at Texas Tech before landing at Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>He threw for 3,195 yards with 23 touchdowns and six interceptions in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Shough might not be around in Round 6, though, after a strong showing at the Senior Bowl. As\u00a0ESPN\u2019s Louis Riddick noted\u00a0on the \u201cRich Eisen Show\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said it down there (in Mobile), I said it during the regular season, I\u2019m gonna say it now. If you put him in an offense like Sean McVay\u2019s, like Kyle Shanahan\u2019s, like Kevin Stefanski\u2019s, this kid is going to be the surprise and steal of the draft, in particular, at quarterback,\u201d Riddick said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_uxz9boti7\">\u201cHe can throw it, he is mobile, he\u2019s big, he\u2019s mature. He\u2019s a guy who\u2019s got a lot of mental horsepower, and he\u2019s a guy who\u2019s been coached by Jeff and Brian Brohm, who to me, right now, there is nobody better as far as tutoring quarterbacks for the pro game in all of college football. Remember that name.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys potential draftee Tyler Shough It is true that, heading into the 2025 offseason, the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0have a long list of issues that require attention. 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