{"id":28037,"date":"2025-02-23T02:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T02:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28037"},"modified":"2025-02-23T02:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T02:28:05","slug":"breaking-cowboys-will-make-42-million-move-on-dak-prescott-before-2025-season-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28037","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys Will Make $42 Million Move on Dak Prescott Before 2025 Season: Expert.."},"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-2195715176-e1740255941670.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-2195715176-e1740255941670.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2195715176-e1740255941670.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2195715176-e1740255941670.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys QB Dak Prescott\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"1147\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1616\" \/><\/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 QB Dak Prescott<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>No doubt, 2024 left something to be desired for quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0of the\u00a0Cowboys. He suffered a hamstring injury that KO\u2019d him after Week 8, and certainly, missing half a season is going to ding anyone\u2019s standing within the team. But, the fact is, Prescott struggled even before he got hurt.<\/p>\n<p>His completion percentage was the second-lowest of his career. His yards per completion (10.7) was the lowest he\u2019s ever had, as was his touchdown percentage (3.8) and his quarterback rating (86.0). One thing that registered as a near career high for Prescott: sack percentage. That was 6.84, which was second-highest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>But despite all that, Prescott his set for a career-high\u2013and league-high\u2013cap hit in 2025 of $89.8 million, which ranks $17 million more than the No. 2 player on the list,\u00a0Deshaun Watson. That is obviously unsustainable, but is a product of the Cowboys\u2019 past handling of Prescott\u2019s contracts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Have Been Pushing Money Forward All Along<\/h2>\n<p>According to Mike Ginnitti of Spotrac, Prescott\u2019s payout is simply unsustainable. The Cowboys will need to restructure his deal and move significant money out of the base salary, making it a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p>That will push more money onto the Cowboys\u2019 future tab. But that\u2019s how the Cowboys have been paying out Prescott all along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still paying dues on the last contract, which rolled into this contract when they extended him last offseason. That\u2019s just the going rate,\u201d Ginnitti said on \u201cThe Spotrac Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you continue to push things down the line a little bit, eventually it catches up to you. Guess what they\u2019re going to do this offseason? They\u2019re going to push more down the line. They\u2019re gonna take that $47 million base salary and make it about $5 million, and make the additional $42 million a signing bonus and push it down into the $28-29 million (range) and they\u2019ll be just fine with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dak Prescott Ranked 30th by PFF<\/h2>\n<p>If your quarterback is Jalen Hurts or Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, then that\u2019s not much of a problem. But the problem is that the Cowboys are having to contort themselves for a player who was well far removed from the top of his field in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Football Focus registered Prescott as the 30th quarterback in the league last year, out of 44 that were graded. And yet his cap hit is the highest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is this, and we\u2019ve seen it with a couple of these quarterbacks now, they\u2019re not exactly pleased with 2024 Dak Prescott, of course,\u201d Ginnitti said. \u201cSo, you don\u2019t want to get yourself into a situation where you\u2019re burying $100 million in dead cap two years from now, and he\u2019s not going to be the guy. There\u2019s a lot of people that think that is exactly what happens here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThey\u2019re going to have walk gingerly with how they treat this contract. But there is absolutely no way he walks into 2025 with an $89 million cap hit. I expect that to come down mightily in the next couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys QB Dak Prescott No doubt, 2024 left something to be desired for quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0of the\u00a0Cowboys. 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