Dak Prescott got the best opening-day present an NFL quarterback could hope for this Sunday.
The Dallas Cowboys signal-caller landed a massive four-year, $240 million deal ahead of his outing vs. the Cleveland Browns, and anything but a win would have been out of the question.
The contract has made Prescott the highest-paid player in NFL history, and he will now have an opportunity to win a Super Bowl with the team he’s never stopped wanting to play for.
“I wanted to be a Cowboy,” he declared, per the Associated Press. “I wanted to stay a Cowboy and it got done.”
Prescott will be the first player in the NFL to make $60 million a season, and his teammates need him to break them off.
According to The Athletic’s Jon Machota, several of Prescott’s teammates have already given him their wrist sizes as they’re all expecting luxury watches.
Dak Prescott said several Cowboys teammates gave him their wrist sizes today after his new deal was finalized. They’re hoping for Rolex or Audemars Piguet watches pic.twitter.com/QbgwaN0N7Y
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) September 9, 2024
It appears the QB needs to draw up a budget very soon if he wants to save the Cowboys’ chemistry.
Dak Prescott Beat Deshaun Watson Twice On The Same Day
Prescott, who enjoyed the best season of his career in 2023, was entering the final year of a four-year contract worth $160 million before securing his new deal. His new terms guarantee him $231 million guaranteed, which surpasses the fully guaranteed deal Deshaun Watson signed with the Browns two years ago by $1 million.
He was getting ready to leave his Cleveland hotel room for the game when his agent informed him that the deal had been completed.
“I had an obligation to the league and to the other quarterbacks,” he said. “It’s because I was up (due) and the next guy, I expect to beat me.”
That he got to beat Watson and the Browns on the same day his deal materialized is fitting.
