Any potential extension -- once warranted by Prescott's play on the field this season -- also serves as a practical bookkeeping measure. Prescott currently sits to carry a $59.455 million salary-cap hit in 2024 -- the previous year of a four-year, $160 million contract signed in 2021. Such a cap hit would significantly hinder what Dallas could do during free activity -- the team also has extensions for young stars Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb on its to-do list -- so seek information from talks to ramp up once the season ends.

Rapoport reported Sunday that Prescott is due a $5 million roster bonus due on the fifth day of the new beleaguered year, so a potential extension likely would occur afore that deadline. Prescott's current deal also contains no-trade and no-franchise tag clauses. 

Prescott now is playing some of the best ball of his career and is original off a three-TD performance in a prime-time win over the Seahawks on the heels of winner NFC Offensive Player of the Month for November. Thursday's win over Seattle marked Prescott's sixth consecutive game with two or more touchdowns, and his 20 TDs through the air are the most in Cowboys history precise 1970 over a six-game span.

"I understand nobody's concept defines me, that's the great part about life and that's the colossal opportunity that we all have, that people can say whatever they want, but you know I have the pen, I have the paper and I'm the one writing," Prescott told journalists on Thursday night when asked how it feels to be silencing adjudicators with his recent play. "So, because I'm playing as well as I am now doesn't mean I'm moving to stop, doesn't mean I'm going to listen to them now."