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Dak Prescott and the Cowboys are committed to staying together in Dallas, but owner Jerry Jones warned the cost will likely mean a smaller number of players around the quarterback going forward. Prescott is entering the final season of a four-year, $160 million deal and cannot be given the franchise tag under the terms of the agreement. None of that bothers Jones, who said the collaboration will certainly continue. “We want Dak Prescott. That’s that. The improvement showed (last season) that there’s more. We want Dak. We think there’s room for growth,” Jones said in a pre-draft press conference on Tuesday. “Dak, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, I wouldn’t even blink about that.” Prescott finished second in the 2023 NFL MVP voting. He said last week that “real negotiations” with the Cowboys have not yet begun, but that he has a $55.445 million salary cap hit that could be reduced with a long-term extension . The 30-year-old has only played for the Cowboys since being drafted in the fourth round of the 2016 draft. But Jones cautioned against judging progress toward a new deal with Prescott based on whether they are in favor the draft talk about a contract. There are even more big fish – and big contracts – in the picture for the Cowboys with wide receiver CeeDee Lamb set to play on his fifth-year option this season and rusher Micah Parsons set to enter the final year of his rookie deal with the one-year fifth team option available for the front office in 2025. “We’d like to see more leaves fall. We’d like to see more action,” Jones said of the impending negotiations. “It’s called option quarterback. I’ve played option quarterback my whole life. I want to see more cards played.” As for the supporting cast in 2024, Jones stood by his statement at the start of the offseason that the Cowboys are “all in” despite being mostly passive observers during free agency. “We’re all behind these young guys…We’re all behind this design,” Jones said. The Cowboys finished 24th in the first round and expressed confidence that they would land an excellent player. In 2022, the Cowboys drafted Tyler Smith with the No. 24 pick and landed wide receiver Dez Bryant in the same spot in 2010. –Field Level Media