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Manziel: I've developed a friendship with Jerry Jones

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 7:43 p.m. ET

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It's not a secret that Johnny Manziel would like to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Who wouldn't want to be a starting quarterback for the NFL team they grew up watching?

There's been plenty of speculation over the last month that the Cowboys could select Manziel tonight if he's still on the board when they're on the clock. Over the last 24 hours, draft experts Mike Mayock and Todd McShay have projected the Cowboys to draft Manziel in their final mock drafts.

"For me it would be really, really cool to go there, but not something I have stuck in my head," Manziel told Pro Football Talk on Thursday. "Jerry Jones has been extremely nice to me. He's treated me very, very well and we've developed a little bit of a friendship over the past year and a half, just going to games or whatever it be."

If the Cowboys drafted the Heisman Trophy winning QB from Texas A&M, it's highly unlikely that he'd play over Tony Romo. As long as Romo remained healthy, Manziel wouldn't see many meaningful snaps in the near future.

How does Manziel feel about not being a team's Day 1 starter?

"For me that doesn't factor in," Manziel told PFT. "Obviously, I don't get to choose where I go today but also it's what's best for the team and that's what kind of guy that I am. It's not that I need to come in and start right away. I went to A&M, redshirted, and sat behind [Ryan] Tannehill and learned a lot.

"There's guys that been in the league and know a lot more than I know going in. If I need to sit and learn from them for a year or whatever the case may be, then I'm openly willing to do that if that's what's best for the team. That's all I care about."