{"id":9828,"date":"2024-10-09T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:00:03","slug":"cowboys-trey-lance-a-trade-option-for-hard-hit-afc-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=9828","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Trey Lance a Trade \u2018Option\u2019 for Hard-Hit AFC Contender.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2168286928-e1726258829347.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2168286928-e1726258829347.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2168286928-e1726258829347.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GettyImages-2168286928-e1726258829347.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys QB Trey Lance\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1445\" data-img-load-time=\"1588\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Cowboys QB Trey Lance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the major contract extension handed out to\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott, a\u00a0deal in which Prescott\u00a0basically got everything he\u2019d wanted from the team, was the big news of the week from The Star\u2014and well it should have been\u2014one of the subplots to that story is the future of the rest of the Cowboys\u2019 quarterback depth chart. Namely,\u00a0Trey Lance.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Lance was brought in last August (the Cowboys\u00a0forked over a fourth-round pick\u00a0to the 49ers) as a kind of ballast in negotiations with Prescott, who had been coming off a poor 2022 season and had much to prove in 2023. He did. Prescott led the NFL in passing yards, led the Cowboys to a 12-5 record and was the\u00a0runner-up in NFL MVP voting.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Lance being force-fed opportunities this summer, though, it was clear that the 2021 No. 3 overall pick had no chance to replace Prescott long-term, which is, in part, why the Cowboys had no choice but to cave on the Prescott deal.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Lance not present a credible threat to Prescott, in the end, he did not even displace No. 2 quarterback\u00a0Cooper Rush, who is still the Cowboys\u2019 backup. Ah, but the Cowboys could have an opportunity to avoid taking a complete bath on the Lance: Dallas could take advantage of the potentially desperate Dolphins in making a Lance deal.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dolphins May Need a Tua Tagovailoa Replacement<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s because the\u00a0Dolphins, despite having depth and talent at just about every offensive position, could be under pressure to take a major swing at a quarterback following Thursday night\u2019s injury to\u00a0Tua Tagovailoa, who suffered his third concussion and might have to consider retirement.<\/p>\n<p>And on a short list of potential Tagovailoa replacements, Lance still probably has the most upside. He also has a link to Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0CBS Sports noted in an article\u00a0titled, \u201cTua Tagovailoa injury: Five emergency QB options for Dolphins, including big-name trade targets,\u201d the Cowboys are a natural match:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former No. 3 overall pick has failed to earn the top backup job with the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0in successive seasons, and he remains something of a total unknown as a passer. But McDaniel is very familiar with his game, serving as the\u00a0San Francisco 49ers\u2018 run game coordinator in 2021, the year Kyle Shanahan and Co. moved up to draft Lance. If nothing else, McDaniel might be able to redraw parts of the offense to work in favor of Lance\u2019s rushing ability, and the youngster isn\u2019t likely to cost a lot via trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Have Little Need for Trey Lance<\/h2>\n<p>As it stands, the Cowboys have little left to do with Lance but to keep him on the roster until the\u00a0remaining $5.3 million\u00a0on his contract dries up. The Cowboys, to no one\u2019s surprise, did not pick up his fifth-year options when they had the chance last winter, and he has never played a down for Dallas in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Lance has four games of starting experience under his belt, and has gone 2-2 in those games. His best game came in Week 16 of the 2021 season, when he threw for 249 yards with two touchdowns and an interception in a win over Houston.<\/p>\n<p>He started the first two games of the 2022 season for the 49ers, but was injured in his second outing and has not gotten back on the field consistently since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyCowboys QB Trey Lance While the major contract extension handed out to\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott, a\u00a0deal in which Prescott\u00a0basically got everything he\u2019d wanted from the team, was the big&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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