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Why the franchise tag is a bad idea for the Cowboys and Dak Prescott

Now that the 2020 NFL offseason has officially started, it’s time to bask in the fun that is multiple, good-to-elite quarterbacks entering the free agent for the first time since the NFL began free agency in 1993.

One of the quarterbacks set to (at least nominally) reach the open market is Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. From an individual perspective, there wasn’t much more that Prescott, a former fourth-round pick out of Mississippi State in 2016, could have done to increase the value of his stock in 2019. To be fair, he started out really low, as we were skeptical of the idea that the Cowboys should pay Prescott a top-level deal, especially since he had been, to that point, a mid-level starter in the NFL (especially when weighing 2017-18 more than 2016).