Burrow’s New $275 Million Contract; Dak Prescott 'Deserves' Cowboys Signing Next?
NEW YORK CITY - The Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night signed quarterback Joe Burrow on the richest contract in NFL history, a five-year, $275 million deal that includes over $219 million guaranteed. And one more thing …
Burrow is now at $55 million per year - suddenly the fourth QB to cross the $50 million threshold in this offseason alone - with Cowboys QB Dak Prescott on the logical next-in-line list.
Prescott is at $40 million APY, and that’s about to change. Is he as good as new-money guys Burrow, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts, or others? That’s a fair question but it’s not the point.

Short of letting him walk (which is far from the plan), Dallas needs to re-do Prescott in order to do 2024 cap business.
That doesn’t mean the Cowboys have to end up giving him $55 million APY to vault him up to Burrow’s level … but the team had better get comfortable with that sort of number being brought up at the negotiating table.