For a mailbag revealed on Tuesday, Nick Eatman and Kurt Daniels of the Dallas Cowboys’ web site addressed whether or not the membership having younger quarterback Trey Lance on the roster is impacting the truth that beginning signal-caller Dak Prescott remains on monitor to achieve free company after the upcoming season.
“I am positive the Cowboys would by no means say it that method,” Eatman wrote. “However I feel there’s some reality to that … I feel they’re ready on a couple of issues concerning Dak, and one among them might be Lance and the way he performs. The opposite might be Dak, and the way this season goes. So if they do not really feel the necessity to get it completed earlier than we begin camp, then I may see this taking part in out into the common season and perhaps all the way in which till the tip.”
The Cowboys acquired Lance from the San Francisco 49ers for a 2024 fourth-round draft decide in late August of final yr and basically stashed him on their bench for a redshirt marketing campaign. Lance turned solely 24-years-old this previous Might and has to date tried simply 102 NFL regular-season passes.
Whereas the third decide of the 2021 NFL Draft stays a piece in progress, it is considerably regarding he hasn’t yet cemented himself as Dallas’ full-time QB2 forward of Cooper Rush.
In the meantime, the Cowboys cannot retain Prescott’s rights for 2025 through the franchise tag per the phrases of his present deal.
“There’s actually no option to see what they really have in Lance with out it affecting Prescott in some way, which means the Cowboys could not have the luxurious of ‘ready to see,'” Daniels wrote. “Their hand might be pressured the place they’ve to select one or the opposite and reside with it. Hope for the most effective with the cheaper choice, or pay the hefty wage of a top-10 quarterback. It appears an inconceivable state of affairs, and makes you surprise in the event that they now remorse giving up that fourth-round decide to accumulate Lance.”
Dallas declined the fifth-year choice for 2025 connected to Lance’s rookie contract earlier this spring, and there is no indication he’ll see the sector for significant motion via at the very least this coming November so long as Prescott is wholesome. As for Prescott’s subsequent deal, it possible will develop into much more costly as soon as Jordan Love of the Inexperienced Bay Packers inks a large extension this summer time, as anticipated.
NFL Media’s Bucky Brooks not too long ago suggested the Cowboys “have thrown across the concept of” Lance finally changing Prescott. Neither Eatman nor Daniels poured chilly water over Brooks’ take, however that is most likely a “nothing to see right here” subject till Lance receives a chance to face an opposing protection when Dallas opens the preseason on the Los Angeles Rams on Aug. 11.