Dak Prescott Becomes Talk of the Town After Cowboys Sign CeeDee Lamb to Huge Contract

If there’s one thing the Dallas Cowboys needed this season to be successful, it was CeeDee Lamb.

While the Cowboys have been preparing for the 2024 NFL season, Lamb has been absent as he awaited his new deal with Dallas. Similar to San Francisco 49ers' Brandon Aiyuk and Cincinnati Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase, Lamb has watched one talented wide receiver after another get signed to extensions all offseason.

Aiyuk and Chase, it seems, are still in the waiting room, while Lamb has now become the 11th receiver to sign a new lucrative deal this offseason.

Lamb’s new deal is reportedly a four-year, $136 million contract with a $38 million signing bonus. It makes him the second-highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history, per Adam Schefter.

This doesn’t answer all of the Cowboys’ problems, but it’s a start. That, or it’s the beginning of a new one. The Cowboys entered the season with tons of question marks after watching several of their starters from last season walk away in free agency. They were running the risk of serious salary cap issues due to the $55.1 million hit they’re taking from Dak Prescott this season.

With Lamb getting his massive deal, is Prescott next? That's all fans are talking about with Lamb now secured.

Some are going as far as calling for Prescott's next team, and signaling the beginning of Trey Lance's career as starting quarterback for the Cowboys.

The details of Lamb’s new deal have yet to be fully revealed, but before this, the Cowboys had a little over $64 million in cap space for next season, according to Over The Cap . If Jerry Jones finally breaks down and signs both Lamb and Prescott, that will undoubtedly take a big hit, depending on how each of the deals is structured.

Jones will also have to decide if he wants to hand Micah Parsons a new deal as well. The talented Cowboys edge rusher will enter the final year of his contract in 2025.

Jones, 81, has now gone on record of saying that no one is better equipped to handle these contract situations other than him. And that's putting it lightly.

"I've done it all," he said in an interview with Clarence Hill of DLLS. "So I have an ordinate amount of confidence that f***, if anybody can figure out how to get this s*** done, I can figure out how to get it done. I've been there every which way from Sunday, and have I busted my a** a bunch, a bunch.

"And there's nobody living that's out cutting and shooting that can't give you a bunch of times they busted their a**. So hell no, there's nobody that could f***ing come in here and do all the contracts … and be a GM any better than I can."

This is an odd time for the Cowboys, who aren’t exactly rebuilding but aren’t exactly a top-tier veteran squad anymore either. Is Lamb's new deal a sign that Prescott's is in the works or that his time in Dallas is coming to an end?

Lamb is obviously set to be a big part of the Cowboys’ future now. Prescott’s future with the team, however, just got a whole lot bleaker, however.