FRISCO, Texas -- Dak Prescott went to bed last Saturday thinking his ninth season as the Dallas Cowboys' quarterback would begin without a contract extension.
A little more than an hour before the team bus left for Huntington Bank Field on Sunday at 12:45 p.m., Prescott had become the highest-paid player in the history of the National Football League.
On Monday, some 20 hours after the Cowboys beat the Cleveland Browns, Prescott signed a four-year contract extension worth $240 million on a leather couch in Jerry Jones' office at the Star with the owner and general manager, and executive vice presidents Charlotte Jones and Stephen Jones sitting next to him.