{"id":31685,"date":"2024-03-18T19:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/31685\/sources-cowboys-rework-dak\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:48:35","slug":"sources-cowboys-rework-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=31685","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8211; Cowboys rework Dak Prescott&#8217;s contract to reduce cap hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources &#8211; Cowboys rework Dak Prescott&#8217;s contract to reduce cap hit\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys are slightly reducing quarterback Dak Prescott&#39;s massive salary cap hit by reworking his contract for the final year of the deal, sources told ESPN&#39;s Field Yates on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A $5 million bonus was converted into a signing bonus to reduce the 2024 cap hit by $4 million, to just over $55 million, sources told Yates.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys can provide further salary cap relief with an extension for Prescott, who is coming off a home loss to Green Bay that dropped his playoff record to 2-5.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Cowboys are continuing their attempts to sign Prescott to a contract extension, a source told ESPN&#39;s Ed Werder.<\/p>\n<p>While Jerry Jones said the club plans to keep Prescott, the team&#39;s owner\/general manager did not strike the same definitive tone as in 2021 before signing his franchise QB to a record $160 million contract. dollars over four years.<\/p>\n<p>The contract overhaul included the addition of two additional voidable years in 2027 and 2028, which caused Prescott&#39;s salary cap hit to increase slightly in 2025 to $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys have remained quiet in free agency in part because of the looming salaries of All-Pro wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and star passer Micah Parsons, the 2021 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Committing to Prescott beyond the upcoming season would make it easier to reach deals with Lamb and Parsons.<\/p>\n<p>The only addition for Dallas from another team so far has been linebacker Eric Kendricks on a one-year deal worth up to $3.5 million.  The Cowboys added Kendricks while releasing linebacker Leighton Vander Esch, their first-round pick in 2018, following a physical failure after suffering another neck injury last season.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources &#8211; Cowboys rework Dak Prescott&#8217;s contract to reduce cap hit\u060c The Dallas Cowboys are slightly reducing quarterback Dak Prescott&#39;s massive salary cap hit by reworking his contract for the final year of the deal, sources told ESPN&#39;s Field Yates on Monday. A $5 million bonus was converted into a signing bonus to reduce the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11107,612,198,5895,285,8262,4629,12050,883],"class_list":["post-31685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-cap","tag-contract","tag-cowboys","tag-dak","tag-hit","tag-prescotts","tag-reduce","tag-rework","tag-sources"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31687,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31685\/revisions\/31687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}