After dropping out on the backup quarterback job with the San Francisco 49ers, Trey Lance has a brand new residence.
With the Dallas Cowboys.
In keeping with ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the 49ers are sending the previous third-overall choice within the 2021 NFL Draft to Dallas for a fourth-round decide within the 2024 NFL Draft.
Forward of the 2021 NFL Draft, the 49ers traded as much as the third-overall choice to draft Lance, sending 4 picks to the Miami Dolphins: A 2021 first-round decide (No. 12 total), a 2022 first-round decide (which grew to become No. 22 total), a 2022 third-round decide (No. 101 total), and a 2023 first-round decide (which grew to become No. 29 total).
On the time of the commerce, Lance was one in every of 5 quarterbacks considered as potential first-round picks within the 2021 cycle. The opposite 4? Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Justin Fields, and Mac Jones.
Lawrence and Wilson had been the primary two picks within the draft.
Regardless of drafting Lance third total — and the draft capital the group used to accumulate him — it was Jimmy Garoppolo who started the 2021 season because the starter in San Francisco. Lance made his first NFL begin in Week 5 after a calf harm to Garoppolo, finishing 15-of-29 passes for 192 yards and an interception in a loss to the Arizona Cardinals. He would make yet another begin that season, guiding the 49ers to a win over the Houston Texans.
Lance started the 2022 season because the workforce’s beginning quarterback, however an ankle harm suffered in Week 2 minimize his season brief, opening the door for Garoppolo to return to the beginning lineup. When Garoppolo suffered an harm of his personal, the workforce turned to their seventh-round choice within the 2022 NFL Draft, Brock Purdy.
Purdy is now entrenched because the workforce’s beginning quarterback, regardless of the very fact he’s coming off a UCL harm suffered within the NFC Championship sport a season in the past. The workforce signed Sam Darnold within the offseason, and earlier this week named Darnold because the workforce’s backup.
Lance was anticipated to play vital time for the 49ers in Friday night time’s remaining preseason sport in opposition to the Los Angeles Chargers. It was believed that the outing would function a showcase for the quarterback for a possible commerce.
As a substitute, he’s on his method out of city earlier than kickoff.
Lance will get a recent begin in Dallas, the place he can sit behind Dak Prescott and study from Mike McCarthy. The Cowboys have two different quarterbacks on the roster, veteran Cooper Rush and Will Grier, who has spent the previous two seasons bouncing between the follow squad and the energetic roster in Dallas.
McCarthy’s quarterback teaching lineage dates again to Joe Montana, and naturally consists of Aaron Rodgers among the many passers he has labored with.
Lance is beneath contract by the 2024 season, which Dallas is now on the hook for to the tune of $5.3 million. The Cowboys additionally acquire the flexibility to determine on Lance’s fifth-year choice, for the 2025 season.
Whether or not McCarthy can salvage Lance, nonetheless, stays to be seen.
