Dez Bryant 'Got a Feeling' Cowboys Will Draft Shedeur After Russell Wilson to Giants

Dez Bryant has a hunch.

The former NFL wide receiver posted on social media Tuesday that he believes the Dallas Cowboys will draft Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders during April's NFL draft:

While anything is possible, this wouldn't make much sense.

First, Dak Prescott is under contract through the 2028 season, and moving on from him would incur an incredibly large amount of dead cap depending on when it happened (for instance, $97.3 million in 2026, $60.8 in 2027 and $34.9 in 2028).

So he isn't going anywhere else anytime soon. At the very least, he'll be in Dallas for at least two more seasons. And that means the Cowboys would either be using valuable draft capital to select a backup in Sanders—while ignoring huge needs at other positions when they select at No. 12—or are planning to eventually make Prescott an even more expensive backup than Kirk Cousins.

Neither makes sense, especially when the Cowboys have star players ready to win right now. How would it sit in the locker room if they bypassed players who could help them immediately to select a long-term successor to the 31-year-old Prescott? Especially if they had to trade up to take Sanders, costing themselves far more than just a 2025 first-round pick?

Not well, that's how.

With Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, you never know. But there are far more logical reasons to bypass Sanders than there are to take him.