Former Haughton High School star Dak Prescott now highest paid football player in NFL history
Plus — Tropical storm likely to impact Louisiana later this week. $1,500 tutoring vouchers available to Bossier Parish students.
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Former Haughton High School star Dak Prescott now highest paid football player in NFL history
Dak Prescott was on college recruiters' radar long before Haughton's undefeated season and District 1-AAAA high school championship in 2010. Twice named first-team All-SEC during his run at Mississippi State, Prescott joined the Dallas Cowboys in 2016.
Sunday, the former Haughton Buccaneer star was offered a history-making new contract with the Cowboys just hours ahead of the 2024 regular season kickoff against the Cleveland Browns.
That contract made Dak Prescott the highest-paid player in NFL history. The four-year contract extension is worth over $240 million, with a historic $231 million guaranteed.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said it would likely be the last quarterback he would ever sign.
"What the guaranteed money means is a big commitment for the next five years to our future, if you will," Jones said. "There's a lot of me that thinks that Dak is our quarterback for the rest of my time. That's not just limited to the terms of this contract, either."
Earlier this year, Prescott made it clear that while the money is a necessary part of the business aspect of the game, that's not what wakes him up in the morning, nor is it what drives him to excel, as a human being, a father or a player.
"I've never played the game for that," Prescott said last Thursday. "I've played a game for the pure love for the guys in that locker room. Yes, this game has always brought me something that not a lot of things in life do. That type of peace, it does. Just being out there in between the lines with people that you share a brotherhood with. Yeah, something that's just special about this game of football and we're just blessed that that money comes with it, and I'm in the position that I'm in that we can be having these conversations. But that doesn't motivate me."
The three-time Pro Bowler re-emphasized his desire to retire in Dallas and, more specifically, why the thought of winning a Super Bowl with the Cowboys — above any other team — drives him.
"That's what motivates me on being here, just to be the quarterback that does it, that wins it," he said. "I don't think that winning it any other place would be the same as winning it here."
Reporting by Patrik Walker/DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
Tropical storm expected to strengthen, impacting Louisiana midweek
Tropical Storm 6 will likely be upgraded to the named storm Francine this week. The National Weather Service says the effects of the Gulf of Mexico-based storm will be felt in extreme southern Texas beginning Tuesday.
"Potential Tropical Cyclone Six is expected to bring storm total rainfall of 4 to 8 inches, with local amounts to 12 inches, from the coast of far northeast Mexico northward along portions of the southern Texas Coast and across southern Louisiana and southern Mississippi into Thursday morning," the weather agency said.
Current path predictions put the storm's path mainly to the east of the Bossier City area.
"A slow northwestward to northward motion is expected over the next day or so, followed by a faster motion to the northeast beginning late Tuesday. On the forecast track, the disturbance is expected to move just offshore of the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico through Tuesday, and approach the Louisiana and Upper Texas coastline on Wednesday," the National Hurricane Center said in a 4 a.m. public advisory.
Free tutoring available to Bossier Parish students
Free tutoring is available to students who need additional support in reading and math.
Families can now apply for $1,500 digital tutoring vouchers as part of a broadened Steve Carter Tutoring Program. Named after late Baton Rouge State Representative Steve Carter, the state program now includes more students, subjects and increased amounts for families and tutors.
Parents/guardians will need the 10-digit Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Student ID (LASID) number to register their Bossier Parish student. Instructions to access this number can be found at bit.ly/4dS0i5U
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