SAN FRANCISCO – Year one for Cowboys quarterback Joe Milton is in the books. After spending his rookie season with the New England Patriots, Dallas acquired Milton and a seventh-round pick before the 2025 season in exchange for a fifth-round pick.
Seeing his former team play in Super Bowl LX isn’t an odd experience for Milton, and he’s happy for his teammates that’ll play in the biggest game of the season.
“It’s gonna be cool, to be honest,” Milton said. “I already talked to them boys. I’m excited for them. Obviously, this should have been the Cowboys, but at the end of the day, you got to roll with the punches. We’ve got to get ready for next year. Enjoy the game, get you some ribs and chicken, call it a day.”
With New England’s quarterback room getting crowded both going into and after Milton’s rookie season, a fresh start made sense, and Milton felt it was needed.
“Hell yes,” Milton said when asked if going to Dallas was the change he needed. “Because I learned a lot. I feel like I cherished every moment that I had with Dak. I feel like he actually poured into my development, poured into Joe, so it was great. I learned a lot from him, I could talk about it all day.”
As he reflected on his first season with the Cowboys, Milton pointed to the fellow quarterbacks in the room having a big footprint in his growth from his rookie season.
“I learned a lot from Dak and Will Grier,” Milton said. “They are a tremendous blessing to me in my development at quarterback. I’ll say the whole aspect of being in the room with them, I don’t think I could ask for a better situation. They both pour into me, so that’s all I can ask for.”
With Dak Prescott specifically, the biggest lesson he took from the 10-year veteran came in the form of a question.
“What is my end goal?” Milton said. “If I want to be a starter, then be a starter every day. So that’s the goal, be a starter every day.”