Move coming? Dallas Cowboys clear $30M by adjusting deals of Dak Prescott, Zack Martin
The Dallas Cowboys are ready for free agency and the official start of the 2023 league year after restructuring the contracts of quarterback Dak Prescott and right guard Zack Martin, clearing roughly $30 million in space to get under the 2023 salary cap.
The Cowboys got the space by turning about $29 million of Prescott’s salary and $12 million of Martin’s 2023 salary into bonuses.
The moves get the Cowboys under the 2023 cap of $224.8 million before March 15, the start of the league year and the beginning of free agency. It also allows them to be players on the free agent market as they look to improve the roster with outside additions, while competing to re-sign some of their own players.
The moves, however, do not preclude the Cowboys from signing Prescott to a contract extension, which vice president Stephen Jones has said is on the team’s list of things to do.
It may even increase the likely of them doing so.
While the Cowboys lowered Prescott’s cap figure for 2023 from $49 million to $27 million, his 2024 salary cap hit, in the final year of the four-year, $160 million deal he signed in 2021, has increased to more than $59 million.
This story was originally published March 10, 2023 at 2:14 PM.
