By the time Dak Prescott got to his phone after the Dallas Cowboys agreed to a trade for receiver George Pickens , the star quarterback said he had about six missed calls from owner Jerry Jones' assistant.
"Literally no idea what it could've been about and actually had a voicemail from Jerry, 'Hey, I've got some good news I want to share with you,'" Prescott said Tuesday. "So I called him back and he was excited. Just a lot of excitement from the both of us."
The Cowboys entered the offseason after the end of a three-year playoff run knowing they lacked a proven No. 2 receiver behind CeeDee Lamb. Then they skipped the position altogether in the draft.
In their mind, they still don't have a No. 2 receiver. Dallas thinks it has two No. 1s after giving the Pittsburgh Steelers a third-round pick in next year's draft while the teams swapped late-round 2027 choices in the deal announced May 7.
"I think CeeDee said it best," first-year coach Brian Schottenheimer said. "I saw his comments where we don't have a one, we don't do A's and B's, we think that there's a one over there. If you look over there, there's a one there. So I think that's the way that we view Pickens."