When Dak Prescott reacted to Jared Goff's $134,000,000 contract extension with Rams: "It's pushing the market"

Before he could sign his lucrative extension, Dak Prescott was asked about Jared Goff's contract. In September 2019, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback sat down for an interview for NFL on FOX with sideline reporter Erin Andrews.

Andrews asked Prescott if Goff, who was the QB of the LA Rams at the time, was making other QBs and their representatives happy with his contract. Goff had just signed a four-year $134 million deal.

Prescott said that NFL players, specifically QBs, are "pushing the market" and seeing how much money they can get which in turn helps other players like himself.

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"I'm sure it makes any team representing quarterbacks, representing the player is going to be happy," Prescott said (0:53). "It's pushing the market and I think that's what everybody's trying to do and we would be disserving anybody else or any other players in the league if we weren't."

Prescott went on to sign a four-year deal worth $160 million in 2021, surpassing Goff's contract.

Dak Prescott became highest-paid QB with 2024 extension

Five years after he told FOX's Erin Andrews that NFL players would do themselves a "disservice" if they didn't push the limits of contracts, he got another big payday. In September, the Dallas Cowboys extended Dak Prescott to a four-year deal worth $240 million, which gives him an annual salary of $60 million.

That annual salary makes him the highest-paid QB in the NFL. Prescott's contract surpassed Green Bay Packers QB Jordan Love, who had become the highest-paid just two months earlier. Jacksonville's Trevor Lawrence and Cincinnati's Joe Burrow are tied for third at $55 million a season.

Prescott's season came to a halt though as he suffered a serious hamstring injury in Week 9 against the Atlanta Falcons.

As for Jared Goff, who once sat atop the highest-paid list, is now sixth. He is on a five-year deal worth $212 million which pays him $53 million a season.

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