Dak Prescott claims he isn’t interested in the truck loads of cash that he’s slated to make as a pending free agent in 2025 or the recipient of a mega extension with the Cowboys.
“I don’t play for money,” Prescott said, via Patrik Walker of the Cowboys’ official team website. “I have never cared for it, to be honest with you. Yeah, I would give it up just to play this game.
“I’ll leave that to the business people to say what it’s worth, what they’re supposed to give a quarterback of my play. It’s about controlling what I can control. Handle that part and everything else will take care of itself.”
Prescott, 30, is in the final year of a four-year, $160 million deal.
He has a cap hit of $55.4 million this year and will be a free agent after this season. According to a provision in his 2020 contract, he can not be franchise-tagged next offseason.
With the Cowboys lacking leverage to keep Prescott in Dallas, owner Jerry Jones will have to open his checkbook in record-breaking fashion or risk losing his star player.
Prescott’s agent, Todd France, is said to have “insane leverage,” one NFL agent told Heavy.
After seeing Lions quarterback Jared Goff snag a massive four-year, $212 million deal with $170 million guaranteed, France and Prescott may be sitting pretty.
Jordan Love, Trevor Lawrence, and Tua Tagovailoa are all quarterbacks who will likely receive extensions before next offseason, allowing Prescott to attempt to top them.
Prescott has the added potential benefit of being the rare top quarterback to hit free agency, joining the likes of Kirk Cousins, who received four years and $180 million from the Falcons.
The current record yearly salary is Joe Burrow’s $55 million per season, a number that Prescott figures to break unless he really doesn’t care about his salary, as he claims.
Prescott has already said he’s willing to test free agency, should it get that far.
“I love this game and love to play and love to better myself as a player and my teammates around me,” Prescott said in April. “Right now, it’s with the Dallas Cowboys. It’s where I want to be, and that’s where I am, and that’s the focus. After this season, we’ll see where we’re at, and if the future holds that, then [great]. If not, we’ll go from there.”
