Insider Gets Blowback for Calling $240 Million Cowboys Star ‘Top 10 QB’

If you’re looking to gauge exactly what the public’s attitude toward Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is headed into the 2025 season, please take the recent reaction to some pretty harmless praise he recently received from a Cowboys insider.

DLLS Cowboys podcast host Jeff Cavanaugh’s list of the Top 10 NFL quarterbacks in the NFL received the tongue-in-cheek treatment with 2 spots for Prescott at No. 5 (without 2024) and No. 7 (with 2024).

It’s a creative, funny way for Cavanaugh to keep fans engaged in the driest part of the NFL calendar … remember fun, everybody?

It turns out fans were not in the mood to joke around.

“I got to tell you, people came for me,” Cavanaugh said on June 28. “Oh, they came for me … but when you give an opinion, people forget that it is an opinion. When you give a list, people then forget that your list doesn’t mean it’s the only list. And this is what I got fro the people: Dak has zero business being mentioned. Joke of a list. Got to go to at least a conference championship to be in the top five.”

Cavanaugh put Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and 3-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes at No. 1, Buffalo Bills quarterback and 2024 NFL MVP Josh Allen at No. 2, Baltimore Ravens quarterback and 2-time NFL MVP Lamar Jackson at No. 3 and Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow at No. 4.

“It’s BS, and it’s beyond him being hurt, because even when he finished second in MVP voting (in 2023) and second team All-Pro, people hated on him that year,” Cavanaugh said. “They hated on him and the Cowboys’ success. They called him the stats QB. They said they beat no good teams the whole year.”

Whatever people think about Prescott, it’s hard to argue 2025 isn’t going to be a career defining year. Prescott is coming off a season in which he missed 9 games due to a hamstring injury. To make matters worse, he did so after signing the biggest contract in NFL history right before the season started — a 4-year, $240 million deal that made him the NFL’s first player to make $60 million in a single season.

People Were BIG MAD About Prescott’s Top 10 Ranking

The internet — big surprise — wasn’t very kind about Cavanaugh’s list, which omitted Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and reigning Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts.

Cavanaugh did, however, put Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels at No. 8.

The Commanders and Eagles faced off in the NFC Championship Game following the 2024 season. The Commanders hadn’t played in the NFC Championship Game since following the 1991 season. Dallas hasn’t played in the NFC Championship Game since after the 1995 season — neither Hurts or Daniels had been born yet.

“Dak has zero business being mentioned,” X user Mark Swindell wrote. “Joke of a list.”

“Idk Jeffrey I think Jalen Hurts probably fits in that top 10,” X user Dean Julia wrote.

“Isn’t it hilarious how much our society has this now mentality and completely erases everything, certain people have done in the past,” X user Wild Bill wrote. “And certain people is referring to Dak.”