Some have overtly wondered all through the summer season if Dallas Cowboys proprietor and common supervisor Jerry Jones may view quarterback Trey Lance as a future alternative for starter Dak Prescott as Prescott stays on monitor to succeed in free company after the 2024 season.
In line with Todd Archer of ESPN, Lance remains to be beneath profession backup Cooper Rush on the Dallas depth chart.
“Rush remains to be within the result in be Prescott’s backup,” Archer wrote on Sunday evening, “however Lance is assured $5.3 million this season within the ultimate yr of his rookie contract.”
Lance hasn’t performed in a significant recreation since he suffered a ugly ankle damage whereas with the San Francisco 49ers in September 2022. The Cowboys acquired him from San Francisco in late August of final yr however then buried him on the depth chart as an unused backup for a redshirt season. Nonetheless, whispers emerged in July suggesting that modifications to Lance’s footwork had helped him enhance his total mechanics.
Lance made his Dallas preseason debut in what grew to become a 13-12 loss on the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. He accomplished 25-of-41 passes for 188 yards with no touchdowns, no interceptions and three sacks to go together with a team-high of 44 speeding yards on six makes an attempt.
Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is predicted to present Lance loads of taking part in time on this coming Saturday’s exhibition matchup on the Las Vegas Raiders.
“You need to see him working the offense at a excessive stage,” McCarthy mentioned about Lance following Sunday’s outing. “The footwork and among the issues we’re asking him to do conceptually are new. We simply want work. We simply want as a lot time as we will. I do know I say that each time I speak about him, however he is making good progress. He is positively wired the suitable method. He is an ideal athlete. Simply lots of work to do.”
The third total decide of the 2021 draft, Lance made solely 4 begins throughout his San Francisco tenure earlier than he misplaced the job to damage and to 2022 rookie sensation Brock Purdy. Final summer season, the 49ers awarded Sam Darnold their major backup job earlier than they traded Lance to Dallas.
Jon Machota of The Athletic noted final week that Lance had “been up and down” in coaching camp practices this summer season, and that pattern continued in opposition to the Rams. Archer identified that Lance had at the very least two unhealthy misses at SoFi Stadium and was responsible of “some indecision” on performs that ended as sacks.
In the meantime, it was reported forward of the weekend by The Athletic’s Jeff Howe that “the Cowboys badly need to maintain Prescott by way of the period of one other long-term contract” however weren’t “shut” to signing him to an extension at the moment. It is assumed Prescott needs to reset the market by way of a deal handed to him by Dallas or as a free agent in March 2025.
Lance clearly isn’t any risk to a wholesome Prescott at this stage of the method. The 24-year-old will attempt to give Jones and Co. one thing to consider when Dallas faces the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium this Saturday.
