Now, according to\u00a0NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, he’s headed to Dallas along with a seventh-round pick in exchange for a fifth-rounder.<\/p>\n
The move for Milton comes after a shocking claim that the Browns and Cowboys\u00a0were negotiating a trade<\/span>\u00a0for Dallas’ longtime quarterback Dak Prescott. Separately, longtime Dallas backup Cooper Rush signed with the Ravens last month.<\/p>\n Cleveland-based sportscaster Bruce Drennan claimed he’d received a tip from a\u00a0‘pretty darn good source within the Browns organization’ that the two teams were allegedly in talks over the quarterback.<\/p>\n \u00a0‘I heard that the part of the reason Myles Garrett was so willing to sign this contract extension, the Browns are negotiating as we speak with the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys<\/span>\u00a0for a trade for Dak Prescott,’ Drennan claimed on his\u00a0BIGPLAY show.<\/p>\n Joe Milton – along with a seventh-round pick – is heading to the Dallas Cowboys in a trade<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Quarterback Dak Prescott played just eight games for the Cowboys in 2024 due to injury<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Milton scored a rushing touchdown against the Bills in the final week of the regular season<\/p>\n ‘Now, Prescott is recovering from a hamstring injury as we speak and he may not be ready for the start of training camp but this comes from a couple of different sources.’<\/p>\n Drennan added that Cleveland would send cornerback Greg Newsome II and draft compensation to Dallas in exchange for Prescott.<\/p>\n Milton was New England’s backup behind Drake Maye last season, but impressed when given a chance in Week 18, throwing for 241 yards and scoring two touchdowns (one passing, one rushing) in a win.<\/p>\n Of course, the quarterback does not have the same pedigree as three-time Pro Bowler Prescott, but he’s also much cheaper, as he signed a rookie deal worth $4.2million over four years after being drafted in the sixth round.<\/p>\n Prescott, meanwhile, signed four-year, $240million extension with Dallas in September, with nearly all of it ($231million) guaranteed, per\u00a0Spotrac.<\/p>\n Still, the team could be looking to move on from Prescott, who is second all-time in franchise touchdown passes but has just a 2-5 record in the playoffs.<\/p>\n After having a great 2023 season, Prescott endured a difficult 2024 as he tossed eight interceptions to just 11 touchdowns and had his season cut short by a hamstring tear.<\/p>\n Prescott has been mostly durable for the Cowboys, though a fractured thumb in 2022 cost him five games and a gruesome ankle injury limited him to just five games in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cowboys have agreed to a surprise trade for Patriots quarterback Joe Milton, according to multiple reports. Milton, 25, was a standout player in college for\u00a0Tennessee\u00a0and impressed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Joe](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/04\/03\/15\/96881011-14568085-image-a-18_1743691817568.jpg\")
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