Could the Dallas Cowboys actually try and move on from Dallas Cowboys? If so, he will have a bunch of potential courters who would want to gain his services.
Appearing on ESPN’s Get Up, NFL insider Adam Schefter disclosed a number of teams that could make a play for Prescott, an unrestricted free agent in 2021.
“How much would Washington pay to cripple its division rival and take its quarterback, and trot out Dak Prescott? Schefter asked rhetorically. “How about Chicago? How about Indianapolis? How about Tampa Bay, as a successor to Tom Brady? How about New Orleans, as a successor to Drew Brees? How about San Francisco? How about any one of these teams?”
“The fact that there are so many options tells you that Dak Prescott has got an enormous amount of leverage. Because he can do that. He can say, ‘OK, I’m not gonna re-sign here after a year, so you might as well move on from me.’ There are a lot of different ways that he can play this out, that the Cowboys can play this out.”
To facilitate his departure, the Cowboys would need to place the franchise tag on the 27-year-old, which would be a cost of $37.7 million.
“During a pandemic, if the cap is going down, can they afford to franchise Dak Prescott? This, right now, shapes up to me as the most fascinating storyline of the NFL offseason,” he said. “Every year there’s something that jumps out; last year was Tom Brady. Right now, it looks like Dak Prescott even though he hasn’t played in a while due to that injury.”
In fives games this season, Prescott had 1,856 passing yards, nine touchdowns and four interceptions.
