SHOCKING reports have indicated that the Cleveland Browns may be in the process of attempting to trade for Dak Prescott.
While it would be a flashy bit of news, any idea that the Dallas Cowboys could trade their franchise quarterback is probably false.
Bruce Drennan, a reporter for SI.com first dropped the idea that the Browns were negotiating for Prescott.
According to SI.com, Drennan is a “longtime Cleveland Sports broadcaster.”
In his report, Drennan cites a “pretty darn good source within the Browns organization” that is supporting the trade.
He claimed that the two teams were “negotiating as we speak with the Dallas Cowboys for Dak Prescott.”
“I heard that the part of the reason Myles Garrett was so willing to sign this contract extension, the Browns are negotiating as we speak with the Dallas Cowboys for a trade for Dak Prescott,” Drennan said on his BIGPLAY podcast on Wednesday.
“Now, Prescott is recovering from a hamstring injury as we speak and he may not be ready for the start of training camp but this comes from a couple of different sources.”
While Drennan is confident in his report, many other reporters quickly came forward to debunk it.
Jane Slater, a reporter for NFL Network, responded to Drennan on X and called his report “fake news.”
“I run it all down when working this beat and the Dallas Cowboys are NOT working on trading Dak to the Browns,” she wrote.
“In fact, texts with two sources tell me ‘fake news’ and ‘absolutely not’ before this gets any sort of wheels.”
While reporters debunking the information is enough to kill the rumor, the Cowboys have basically done it themselves by restructuring Prescott’s contract.
The team turned most of his 2025 salary into a bonus, guaranteeing it to the quarterback.
They pushed $36.6 million in cap space into later years, but a trade would send all of that money back towards the 2025 cap.
If the Cowboys were going to trade Prescott, which they aren’t because he has a full no trade clause, they would have done it before restructuring his contract.
Prescott currently has a $52.974 million cap hit for 2025.
If he was traded before June 1, the Cowboys would incur an extra $97.356 million cap hit.
That would bring the total cap hit to a whopping $150.33 million. It would simply be impossible for the Cowboys to afford that.
Trading Prescott would send the Cowboys into financial hell, and while many fans question the capabilities of Jerry Jones, he is smart enough to not doom the team for the next few years.
Prescott is the Cowboys quarterback and he is going to stay that way.
