What is Dak worth in $$$$?

[StarOfGlory]

After seeing the ridiculous money Stafford just got, what can Dak get? Let's assume the following:

Dak wins three playoff games in the next three years, and is top five in the NFL in completion percentage and TD's. He is clearly a star player. What will Jerry offer? What would it take to keep Dak happy?

 

[erod]

The franchise tag.

 

[KLJ]

3 years from now it will take at least $30m a year.

 

[windward]

5 years 160M

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

if he continues the pace, whoa!

 

[Jeffkills]

He should get market rate, factoring in how much additional $$ he'll make over his entire lifetime by playing starting QB for America's team...

If he'd accept something middle of the road (giving us a sweatheart dead) I'd be so excstatic that I'd send out $10 donations to numerous animal shelters - just to spread out all the love inside my heart...

Tom Brady doesn't take market value because he's a team player with SB aspirations every year; if Dak emulated, I'd sing his praises for years..

 

[Hardline]

Franchise tag for sure.

 

[Direwolf63]

The downside to having an outstanding draft is that you have to re-sign all these guys at the same time. If current career projections continue, how do you sign the following players:

Dak
Zeke
Maliek Collins
Anthony Brown

You can add Rico and Jaylon if they become good players as well.

That would be a massive cash outlay and a huge salary cap issue.

NOTE: If you give Zeke the 5th year option, you can re-sign him a year later which may help. But still.....

Thankfully, it's a problem for another day.

 

[Dhragon]

One BILLION Dollars ...

 

[Screw The Hall]

What is the highest contract in the league? Dak is the best thing to happen to this franchise in decades.

 

[Direwolf63]

What is the highest contract in the league? Dak is the best thing to happen to this franchise in decades.

Matthew Stafford just signed a 5 year deal at $27M per year.

Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers extensions soon coming up. Both will pass those numbers easily. Even Kirk Cousins will pass $27M with another good year.

 

[Screw The Hall]

The downside to having an outstanding draft is that you have to re-sign all these guys at the same time. If current career projections continue, how do you sign the following players:

Dak
Zeke
Maliek Collins
Anthony Brown

You can add Rico and Jaylon if they become good players as well.

That would be a massive cash outlay and a huge salary cap issue.

NOTE: If you give Zeke the 5th year option, you can re-sign him a year later which may help. But still.....

Thankfully, it's a problem for another day.

Dak is a given. Honestly, you might use Zeke up and then dump him. I'm not sure about that though. Maliek you get done early. You offer Brown something a year early that his agent can't deny if he stays on the same track. Remember, contracts will fall off as well.

 

[Shuff]

I would like to see him play one more year at last years pace before I give him the farm, but if he does, then I would give him.....the farm!

 

[AmericasTeam81]

As much as he can get.

 

[Screw The Hall]

Matthew Stafford just signed a 5 year deal at $27M per year.

Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers extensions soon coming up. Both will pass those numbers easily. Even Kirk Cousins will pass $27M with another good year.

The Dak thing to me is like the Zach Martin situation. If the guy continues to be as good as he looks at this moment, it is what it is, you have to pay him whatever it takes. That being said maybe you can leverage the fact that he is making crappy 4th round money now into an advantageous early deal that benefits the team slightly. It is going to be a huge number either way though.

 

[JJHLH1]

Priceless!! Because his stellar play will constantly remind every other team in the league what a mistake they made by passing on him multiple times.

 

[Plankton]

What he's getting paid.

 

[NorthwestDallas40]

Stafford's contract is exactly why I was not real happy this offseason with our lack of free agent signings... we have a two year window with a franchise QB making pennies. We should have been signing guys like JPP and/or Bouye to front-loaded contracts to make a super bowl run in these two years, just like Seattle did with Russell Wilson. An opportunity missed IMO.

 

[Direwolf63]

The Dak thing to me is like the Zach Martin situation. If the guy continues to be as good as he looks at this moment, it is what it is, you have to pay him whatever it takes. That being said maybe you can leverage the fact that he is making crappy 4th round money now into an advantageous early deal that benefits the team slightly. It is going to be a huge number either way though.

No question about it. Franchise QB's are exceptionally rare. When you have one, you pay whatever it takes to keep him. It's not debatable.

But you may have to go cheap elsewhere. When Seattle paid Russell Wilson and their top defenders, they went cheap on the o-line. And it almost got him killed.

Similar decisions may have to be made in 3 years.

The key is that they need to keep drafting well. You can let good players go if you can replace them with good players on rookie contracts. You even gain high compensatory picks when you lose good players.

 

[plasticman]

He is obviously the real deal. They don't even have to begin paying him for another 2 years. this team gets a franchise Prom Bowl quarterback for almost free for three seasons. If you take the next contract he gets, no matter the price, and average it in over that term plus the previous three years, you will find the Cowboys really did get a sweetheart deal.