The Dallas Cowboys acquired Trey Lance last year by way of a trade with the San Francisco 49ers, giving up a fourth-round pick to bring the former No. 3 overall pick to Dallas. He has not yet played a regular season snap for the Cowboys and hasn’t looked particularly dominant in the preseason, but that doesn’t mean the team regrets bringing him in.
During a press conference following the team’s final preseason game against the Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday night in which Trey Lance threw five interceptions, Cowboys team owner and general manager Jerry Jones made it very clear that he does not regret trading a fourth-round pick for Lance.
“For a fourth-round pick? Are you kidding me?” Jones said, laughing. “Although we did get Dak [Prescott] with our second fourth-round pick [in 2016], so you’ve got a point there. But we’ve had some that didn’t play [who were drafted] in the fourth round, too.”
Though Lance has not played a snap during the regular season for the Cowboys, but Jones still isn’t ready to say that it was a bad trade to bring him in.
“If I could have drawn this up, I would have hoped to get two-thirds of the number of plays you got to see him play [in the preseason],” Jones said. “Was very valuable for us, very valuable for him in light of the fact that he, relatively speaking, has had fewer plays. I saw some things out there that you can win with.”
