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Barry Werner

Cowboys make Dak Prescott highest-paid player in NFL history with $240 million contract

Dak Prescott won before he took a snap in 2024 for the Dallas Cowboys.

The quarterback and NFC East champs came to an agreement Sunday on a record-breaking contract worth $240 million.

The contract carries over four years and $231 million is guaranteed.

I’ve never played the game for that,” Prescott said on Thursday. “I’ve played a game for the pure love for the guys in that locker room. Yes, this game has always brought me something that not a lot of things in life do. That type of peace, it does. Just being out there in between the lines with people that you share a brotherhood with. Yeah, something that’s just special about this game of football and we’re just blessed that that money comes with it, and I’m in the position that I’m in that we can be having these conversations.

“But that doesn’t motivate me.”

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