Is Dak Prescott Overpaid? His salary with the Cowboys does not match his achievements on the field
The Dallas Cowboys have been waiting nine years for Dak Prescott to lead them to a Super Bowl and plan to wait three more. Last year, the team extended their star player a four-year, $240 million contract, making him the highest-paid player in the NFL and, according to some analysts, one of the most overvalued in history.The negotiations between Prescott and the Cowboys turned into a soap opera-worthy drama. Like any good television drama, the dilemma was resolved with Week 1 of the NFL just hours away, when Prescott signed the multimillion-dollar deal that gave him an $80 million signing bonus and an average salary of $60 million per year.In any soap opera, that would have been the happy ending for the protagonist. In real life, Prescott missed nine of 17 games due to injury, and his performance alternated between […]