{"id":28776,"date":"2025-02-26T01:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28776"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:11:27","slug":"2025-nfl-draft-cowboys-aim-to-select-a-quarterback-to-groom-behind-dak-prescott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28776","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL Draft: Cowboys aim to select a quarterback to groom behind Dak Prescott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Jones calls it a ‘goal’ to draft a quarterback this year<\/h2>\n
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The\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0have\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0under contract for at least four more seasons, but his quarterback room is going to look different in 2025. Both\u00a0Cooper Rush\u00a0and\u00a0Trey Lance\u00a0are free agents looking for new deals, and Cowboys chief operating officer and co-owner Stephen Jones recently revealed that adding a young signal-caller via the draft is something Dallas is focusing on.<\/p>\n

“You know, I think one of our goals is to get a young quarterback in the draft,” Jones\u00a0told\u00a0The Dallas Morning News<\/em>\u00a0at the\u00a0NFL\u00a0Scouting Combine. “I don’t know where that’s going to be.<\/p>\n

“That’s why we gave a [fourth-round pick] for Trey. It seems like all the quarterbacks, even guys we have in the fourth round, go in the first. They always go so much higher than what you think.”<\/p>\n

Jones said they “think the world” of Lance, but that he will probably be looking for something different now that he’s a free agent. Jones is also worried Rush could be too expensive to re-sign relative to what the Cowboys want to spend for a backup quarterback. That means one is likely coming in the draft.<\/p>\n

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