$28M Cowboys signing brings 6-year hardware streak of good luck

When the Dallas Cowboys signed wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, they likely had no idea that they unlocked a key to their 2026 season. Success follows the veteran wideout no matter where he goes, either for his quarterback, or the team he plays for.

Despite being a solid WR during his eight seasons, Valdes-Scantling has modest numbers over the course of his career, never topping 690 yards or six touchdowns in a single year. However, Valdes-Scantling does seem to bring good luck wherever he goes. In his last six seasons, major hardware has made it's way either to the team he played for, or the quarterback he caught passes from.

If you're wondering how things turned out in 2024, Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen won the MVP award. And if you're counting, at his last five stops prior to 2025, Valdes-Scantling’s QBs had won four MVP’s and two Super Bowls.

It helps that he’s played for a few of the best signal callers in the league, and now he gets to play with another one in Dak Prescott. He hasn’t won an MVP yet, but Prescott’s played some of his best football in two of the last three seasons and finished second in MVP voting in 2023. Perhaps Valdes-Scantling can help Prescott win the award this upcoming season.

What might be more difficult is facilitating a Super Bowl run for the Cowboys, who haven’t even seen an NFC championship game in 31 years. If anyone can do it, it might be Valdes-Scantling, who was signed by the Seattle Seahawks last offseason. Even though he was cut before the 2025 campaign began and played for two other teams during the regular season, the Seahawks did go on to win the Super Bowl.

That would mean any team Valdes-Scantling has started an offseason with in the last six years has seen its QB win the MVP, or team or hoist the Lombardi Trophy. The Cowboys should like those results, even if the team cuts the veteran WR before the season.