Jerry Jones addresses Jordan Love's historic $55,000,000-a-year contract as pressure piles on Cowboys over Dak Prescott deal
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was put in a tough spot on Friday night as deals for Tua Tagovailoa's contract and Jordan Love's historic contract came rolling in one after another. Love's deal made him the joint-highest-paid NFL QB going by average annual value at $55 million a year alongside Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence.
All eyes will turn to what the Cowboys intend to do with Dak Prescott, as has been the case with Dallas all season. In a scrum with reports on Saturday, July 27, after Jordan Love's contract was announced, Jerry Jones told reporters:
"I get in trouble everytime I make comparisons. Of course we saw a head-to-head match with Green Bay last year. I might, just for that, get a chance to show he's the best with the Cowboys star on him."
When Jones was asked if Dak could pull those feats off without a new deal in hand, the Cowboys owner replied:
"Oh yes. But that might imply that we're not doing a new deal, and that's just not the case."
Jerry and Stephen Jones have reiterated that they've been in contact with Dak Prescott's agent. The Cowboys owner also stated that they've had productive discussions with WR CeeDee Lamb who has been holding out of training camp so far.
Jordan Love's $220 million deal forces the ball into Cowboys' court
Considering Jordan Love is now the joint-highest-paid QB in NFL history going by average annual value alongside Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence at $55 million a year, it's fair to assume that the Cowboys will have to go out of their way to make Dak Prescott the new champion of the highest-paid NFL QB in 2024.
Love, Lawrence and Burrow's $55 million-a-year deal might not prove to be enough to get Prescott to sign on the dotted line so we might as well brace ourselves to see Dallas make him the first $60 million-a-year quarterback in NFL history while grappling with the maths of how they can maneuver around CeeDee Lamb, who's also looking to ink a contract that sees him rank among the NFL's highest-paid non-QBs in 2024.