We couldn’t get past Week 2 without rumors around Joe Burrow reaching an entirely new level. Barely a week ago, Burrow was busy convincing the world that his future was in Cincinnati. He wanted to stay and win with the Bengals. But today, one of the biggest agents in the sport believes a move to the Dallas Cowboys is inevitable.
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Now, to think Cincinnati would hand over a QB they once refused to trade for four first round picks would be impossible, but sports agent Rich Paul believes that the move might actually happen sometime in the future.
“I think at some point, down the road, Joe Burrow ends up a Dallas Cowboy,” Paul said on the Game Over podcast. “I think it happens.”
On paper, the move isn’t too far fetched. Dak Prescott has just turned 33, and Dallas needs to think of its future. Even though Burrow is just a few years younger, he could give the team some time to figure out their next QB without seeing their offense completely drop off. And the added benefit of a championship calibre QB is just the icing on the cake, as even the hosts noticed.
“If Joe Burrow went to the Cowboys and won a championship, could you imagine?” co-host Max Kellerman wondered.
At the moment, there’s no link between the Cowboys and Burrow outside of Paul’s statements. Burrow has made it clear that he wants to stay in Cincinnati, as he did last week.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m just trying to bring a now-or-never mentality to the day-by-day process. If you’re not, what are you doing? Attack the day with a championship mindset. The rest will take care of itself.”
But Paul insists there could be something on the cards in the future, as he would go on to say in the podcast. “I’m just telling you, I think it’s going to happen. It’s almost like an inevitable thing. It’s just like those two things makes all the sense in the world.”
Does Paul know more than he’s letting on? After all, he’s the CEO of Klutch Sports, the same agency that manages multiple major NFL stars. And just earlier this year, Nicole Lynn, the President of Football for Klutch Sports and Myles Garrett’s agent, orchestrated a move for the defensive star to the Los Angeles Rams.
Garrett and the Browns had made it clear that he wasn’t going to leave, but they still rattled the NFL community with the news of a move.
Burrow finds himself in a similar predicament. He’s in his seventh year with the Bengals, but the team hasn’t visited the playoffs since 2022. And this year, there’s a sense of urgency for Burrow, especially when it comes to finding success in the NFL. They came tantalizingly close to a Super Bowl in his second year, but since then, his own injuries and the lack of a Super Bowl-worthy roster have held him back.
Could that mean a losing year would see him look for new opportunities elsewhere? Even though Burrow has insisted that’s not the case, former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson believes that to be the case.
“If it doesn’t go well in Cincinnati this year … Joe Burrow is gone,” he said on CBS Sports. “I think he wants to leave, and what’s going to be interesting is, where does he go?”
The more important aspect for the Cowboys here is would Burrow fit into their plans? Jerry Jones already admires the quarterback, as fans might remember from his comments about Burrow’s Comeback Player of the Year win.
“They should have had Co-Comeback Player of the Year,” Jones said when speaking to TMZ in 2022. “Dak deserved that. Just, frankly, heroic the way he came back. The way he actually performed, the No. 1 offense in the NFL. That should have been a Co-Comeback, but I don’t want to take anything away from Burrow.”
But realistically, Burrow isn’t the solution to Dallas’ problems. And we say that after looking at the 2025 season. Despite having one of the worst defenses in the league last season, Dak Prescott was still firing on all cylinders. Statistically, he was one of the top-5 QBs in the league. But was that enough to get the Cowboys through? Clearly not.
And even if the team plans to bring him in as Prescott’s replacement, it’s still a double-edged sword. Burrow is 29. Even if he moves to Dallas in the next few years, the Cowboys would be right where they started: looking to find a replacement for an aeging quarterback. Perhaps the best thing to do here is to let Burrow go and instead focus on bringing in a new quarterback through the draft.
As for Burrow, he is on a five-year, $275 million contract extension that he signed ahead of the 2023 season. It’s the best time for Burrow to live up to his words or start things afresh with a new check in hand and a new challenge to prove himself in a new place.