Former Olympia High QB Joe Milton traded to the Dallas Cowboys

After playing in one game as a rookie for the New England Patriots, Milton and a seventh-round pick are headed to Dallas for a fifth-round selection.

By Sam Albuquerque
| 12:00 a.m. April 19, 2025

Sports

Former Olympia High football quarterback Joe Milton, along with a seventh-round pick, has been traded from the New England Patriots to the Dallas Cowboys for a fifth-round pick in the upcoming NFL Draft.

Milton, who graduated from Olympia in 2018, was a three-star prospect out of high school and signed with the Michigan Wolverines. After three seasons in Ann Arbor, he transferred to Tennessee in 2021 and started 29 games over three seasons for the Volunteers.

The Patriots selected Milton in the sixth round of last year’s draft to serve as a backup quarterback to fellow rookie Drake Maye. He played in one game for New England as a rookie, throwing for 241 yards on 22-for-29 passing and scoring two touchdowns in a 23-16 win over the Buffalo Bills in Week 18 — one of the Patriots' four wins last season.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.