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Can the anti-Dak crowd please promise to bottle up their DELICIOUS tears for me when Dak signs his new deal??? YUMMY!!!
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26427917/the-11-nfl-quarterbacks-get-mega-extensions-2019
Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys
Remaining on his contract: One year, $2 million in cash ($2.1 million cap hit)
For three years, Prescott has been the NFL's most underpaid player. That's about to change. It's unclear exactly how big his deal is going to be, but a quarterback who made just under $40,000 per game last season might very well take home $40,000 per snap this upcoming campaign.
It seemed like Prescott was on the downswing after taking a step backward in 2017 and struggling early in the 2019 season, but the arrival of Amari Cooper helped transform him and the Cowboys' offense. Prescott's passer rating jumped from 87.4 before the Cowboys' Week 8 bye to 103.0 afterward. His career rate stats are better than Wentz's, and that's before factoring in Prescott's health and his considerable impact as a runner. Prescott is not a top-five passer, but given that the Cowboys wanted to draft Paxton Lynch and Connor Cook before settling on Prescott, Jerry Jones & Co. shouldn't be confident that they can find a better quarterback than Prescott if they go back into the draft.
What his new deal could look like: Six years, $168 million with $60 million guaranteed at signing
The Cowboys build their team around a stars-and-scrubs approach and construct their cap around paying those guys on long, oft-restructured deals. It's a great approach when those players stay healthy and productive, but if something goes wrong, Dallas is left to pick up the pieces with lots of dead cap. (I wrote more about this last September.)
Given the way the Cowboys structure their deals, Prescott isn't likely to break the NFL record for average annual salary, especially if Wilson pushes that figure upward. It seems more likely that he'll set a mark for most dollars in an NFL deal, which this contract considers. Prescott's $168 million figure would top the $150 million Ryan got from the Falcons or the $155 million Goff would pick up from the Rams in the deal I mentioned above, although none of those figures is guaranteed.
Prescott would take home a $40 million signing bonus and keep his $2 million base salary for 2019. The Cowboys ran 1,022 offensive plays last season, so at that mark, Prescott would earn $41,095 per snap, topping his weekly base salary of $37,058 from a year ago. The Cowboys also would guarantee an $18 million base salary for 2020 to get to $60 million in guarantees, although they will almost surely turn most of that base salary into a signing bonus to create cap space next season.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26427917/the-11-nfl-quarterbacks-get-mega-extensions-2019
Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys
Remaining on his contract: One year, $2 million in cash ($2.1 million cap hit)
For three years, Prescott has been the NFL's most underpaid player. That's about to change. It's unclear exactly how big his deal is going to be, but a quarterback who made just under $40,000 per game last season might very well take home $40,000 per snap this upcoming campaign.
It seemed like Prescott was on the downswing after taking a step backward in 2017 and struggling early in the 2019 season, but the arrival of Amari Cooper helped transform him and the Cowboys' offense. Prescott's passer rating jumped from 87.4 before the Cowboys' Week 8 bye to 103.0 afterward. His career rate stats are better than Wentz's, and that's before factoring in Prescott's health and his considerable impact as a runner. Prescott is not a top-five passer, but given that the Cowboys wanted to draft Paxton Lynch and Connor Cook before settling on Prescott, Jerry Jones & Co. shouldn't be confident that they can find a better quarterback than Prescott if they go back into the draft.
What his new deal could look like: Six years, $168 million with $60 million guaranteed at signing
The Cowboys build their team around a stars-and-scrubs approach and construct their cap around paying those guys on long, oft-restructured deals. It's a great approach when those players stay healthy and productive, but if something goes wrong, Dallas is left to pick up the pieces with lots of dead cap. (I wrote more about this last September.)
Given the way the Cowboys structure their deals, Prescott isn't likely to break the NFL record for average annual salary, especially if Wilson pushes that figure upward. It seems more likely that he'll set a mark for most dollars in an NFL deal, which this contract considers. Prescott's $168 million figure would top the $150 million Ryan got from the Falcons or the $155 million Goff would pick up from the Rams in the deal I mentioned above, although none of those figures is guaranteed.
Prescott would take home a $40 million signing bonus and keep his $2 million base salary for 2019. The Cowboys ran 1,022 offensive plays last season, so at that mark, Prescott would earn $41,095 per snap, topping his weekly base salary of $37,058 from a year ago. The Cowboys also would guarantee an $18 million base salary for 2020 to get to $60 million in guarantees, although they will almost surely turn most of that base salary into a signing bonus to create cap space next season.
