{"id":55837,"date":"2025-06-14T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=55837"},"modified":"2025-06-14T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T06:50:44","slug":"cowboys-qbs-240-million-deal-called-nfls-worst-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=55837","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys QB\u2019s $240 Million Deal Called \u2018NFL\u2019s Worst Contract\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<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\/06\/GettyImages-2182705185-e1749859257113.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182705185-e1749859257113.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182705185-e1749859257113.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182705185-e1749859257113.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Dak Prescott\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"551\" data-dom-ready-time=\"865\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0wants to quiet all the noise, there is one simple solution. It\u2019s been the same solution for the entire decade he\u2019s been a starter in the NFL. All you have to do is win.<\/p>\n<p>For Prescott, winning will keep him off lists like the one\u00a0Bleacher Report\u2019s Kristopher Knox\u00a0just put out of the 10 worst contracts in the NFL, placing Prescott at No. 2 with the 4-year, $240 million contract he signed in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s only behind\u00a0Cleveland Browns\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Deshaun Watson and his fully guaranteed, 5-year, $230 million contract extension he signed in March 2023 \u2014 perhaps the worst contract in the history of professional sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDallas made Prescott the highest-paid player in NFL history by a fairly considerable margin,\u201d Knox wrote on June 12. \u201cWith a deal worth $60 million\u00a0annually, Prescott makes at least $5 million more per year than\u00a0any other player\u2014including quarterbacks like (Jordan) Love,\u00a0Joe Burrow\u00a0and\u00a0Josh Allen\u00a0\u2026 Prescott is an above-average quarterback, but he has never been elite. There is no scenario, at this stage in his career, that he\u2019s worth $5 million per year more than any other player.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Prescott, Cowboys Have Upstart NFC East Rival<\/h2>\n<p>It seems kind of foolish to say anyone with a contract like Prescott\u2019s is at a career crossroads, but Prescott followed the best season of his career in 2023 with arguably the most\u00a0disappointing season of his career in 2024\u00a0and did so after becoming the first player in NFL history to make $60 million in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Prescott earned his lone NFL All-Pro nod and was runner-up in NFL MVP voting. Yet somehow, in Year 10 of Prescott\u2019s career, we\u2019re still wondering if he\u2019ll ever make it to a Super Bowl and fresh off a season in which 2 of Dallas\u2019 NFC East rivals faced off in the NFC Championship Game with the upstart\u00a0Washington Commanders\u00a0and the Super Bowl champion\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>While the\u00a0Eagles have been dominant\u00a0for the last decade, the bigger problem for Prescott and the Cowboys has to be the Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>In a year in which Prescott only played 8 games due to a hamstring issue, Washington quarterback and 2024 NFL draft No. 2 overall pick\u00a0Jayden Daniels\u00a0had perhaps the greatest rookie season for a quarterback in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Prescott is staring down a year in which he enters the season as the\u00a0third best quarterback in his own division.<\/p>\n<h2>Cowboys Picked to Finish \u2018Dead Last\u2019 in NFC East<\/h2>\n<p>The Ringer\u2019s Bill Simmons recently laid out a scenario in which the Cowboys actually finish dead last in the NFC East in 2025 \u2014 and it doesn\u2019t seem entirely far fetched.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0New York Giants\u00a0might actually improve quite a bit after going 4-13 in 2024 after getting 2 picks in the first round of the 2025 draft with edge rusher\u00a0Abdul Carter\u00a0at No. 3 overall and quarterback\u00a0Jaxson Dart at No. 25 overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo (the Cowboys) are just going into a season knowing you\u2019re number three, and maybe even worse if the Giants are a little bit better right away than people think,\u201d Simmons said on the\u00a0May 29 episode of \u201cThe Bill Simmons Podcast\u201d in a conversation with Sports Illustrated\u2019s Albert Breer. \u201cSo I do not feel good if I\u2019m in Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. 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