A fascinating blockbuster trade proposal has the Dallas Cowboys trading down in April’s 2024 NFL Draft to select Dak Prescott’s eventual replacement.
The 30-year-old Prescott put together the best regular season of his career in 2023, but that only ended with an embarrassing 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card Round. Given his age, constant postseason disappointments and contract status (one year remaining on his deal), many believe that Jerry Jones should make a change at QB sooner rather than later.
At USA Today’s Cowboys Wire site, K.D. Drummond proposed a blockbuster trade idea that has Dallas sending the No. 24 pick to the Kansas City Chiefs in exchange for the No. 31, No. 94 and No. 171 selections.
In Drummond’s proposal, the Cowboys would then use the No. 31 pick on Washington Huskies quarterback Michael Penix Jr.:
“In this scenario, the Cowboys have Prescott as an in-house bridge to the future. This can play out a few different ways. More than likely, Prescott plays out the final year of his deal, and then Dallas hands the reigns over to Penix in 2025.
Perhaps the selection pisses Prescott off to the point that he not only considers waiving his no-trade clause, but demands it. Dallas could then shop Prescott, coming off a top-3 MVP candidate season, for a bounty of picks.”
If Dallas doesn’t want to commit to Prescott long-term, then this proposal put together by Drummond certainly makes sense. The Cowboys would have a Pro Bowl-caliber QB to keep them in playoff contention for next year, allowing Penix Jr. to learn behind Prescott before he takes over the reins.
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Of course, there’s no indicator that Jones will actually move on from Prescott. He only replaced Tony Romo because of an injury that opened the door for Prescott to take over as the starting QB in 2016.
But if Jones wants to put pressure on Prescott to finally turn a corner in the postseason, then trading up for a player like Penix Jr. makes all the sense in the world.
