Will Grier vs. Cooper Rush: Cowboys QB Change Behind Dak Prescott?

This, we are able to promise you, was not the plan as of some months in the past.

The Dallas Cowboys have been going to be largely reliant on Dak Prescott for all issues offense, and no change there. However behind him? There was a perception inside The Star that Cooper Rush had develop into “established” because the No. 1 … and that Will Grier was nearer to the man behind him (No. 4 Ben DiNucci) than he was Rush.

Oh, and Dallas was solely going to maintain two QBs, so …

“I believe Will has taken a giant step,” Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy stated this weekend. “I actually just like the camp he’s had. He’s positively made a transfer this week.”

Grier is coming into his second season with the Cowboys after becoming a member of the workforce in September of 2021. He did not play final season, however the former third-round choose from West Virginia did spend time within the classroom. And that’s beginning to repay, it appears, with a contest brewing between him and Rush.

Rush has his win at Minnesota final yr to his credit score. He is 28, got here to Dallas as a UDFA, and has bounced forwards and backwards as a member of the membership.

Grier is 27, lacks skins on the wall – he began twice in his rookie season of 2019, each losses – and remains to be looking for his NFL means.

However, McCarthy stated of Grier, “You possibly can see the intuition and consciousness. Popping out of faculty I believe that was one thing that jumped out for him. Will has performed quite a lot of quarterback, got here out of the womb enjoying quarterback for his (coach) dad. So now you’re beginning to see that in his consolation in our system …

“He’s simply enjoying quarterback once more.”

Grier and Rush are most likely knotted when it comes to understanding the offense. One does have an amazing bodily edge over the opposite. Which may go win a regular-season sport if Dak Prescott is unavailable? That is the central query, with potential solutions beginning to reveal themselves on Saturday within the preseason debut at Denver, the place Prescott will not play … and the place these guys must play effectively.

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