SAD NEWS: Dallas Cowboys announced that Dak Prescott is Leaving immediately after Facing…..
With the 2023-24 NFL season officially over, teams have turned the page to the 2024 offseason, free agency and the draft.
Once again, the Dallas Cowboys will be working to improve a team that bowed out early in the postseason.
Getting better will be a challenge. Dallas has already been forced to replace defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, who took the head coaching job with the rival Washington Commanders.
Dallas is also facing a $14.3 million cap deficit, which makes being a market player difficult.
However, this doesn’t mean that the Cowboys can’t have a successful offseason.
It’s just going to require work.
With this in mind, let’s dive into the biggest keys for Dallas in 2024.
Wideout CeeDee Lamb is entering the final year of his rookie deal and is deserving of a pay increase. He was extension-eligible last offseason but never pressed the issue.
“When it’s right, just come let me know something. Other than that, I’m just going to keep working,” Lamb told reporters last July.
The timing is right now, as Lamb is set to carry a cap hit of $18 million on the fifth-year option. Giving him a new deal could allow Dallas to save significant cap space.
Quarterback Dak Prescott, meanwhile, is set to carry a cap hit of $59.5 million on the final year of his deal.
An extension for the QB could also save Dallas cap space, but the Cowboys must first determine what sort of deal to offer.
While Prescott is clearly an above-average quarterback, he’s failed to take Dallas beyond the divisional round.
He’ll turn 31 in July and could be staring down his last truly lucrative payday, and the Cowboys must decide whether they trust Prescott to get them to the proverbial mountaintop over the next half-decade.
Prescott will probably want a deal that pushes into his mid-30s—and he has few reasons to turn down $60 million this year and a shot at free agency in 2025.
A shorter deal could allow the Cowboys to hedge but would also make it harder to push money into future years.
Something must be done, though, because barring an extension, this could be Prescott’s last run with Dallas.
