Dallas Cowboys star Dak Prescott was ranked the eighth-best QB in the league by NFL scout Damian Parson of Bleacher Report.
Parson has Prescott in the same tier as Bo Nix (11) of the Denver Broncos, Brock Purdy (10) of the San Francisco 49ers, Jordan Love (9) of the Green Bay Packers, Lamar Jackson (7) of the Baltimore Ravens and Drake Maye (6) of the New England Patriots.
“Dak Prescott deserves more credit and praise as one of the league’s top signal-callers,” Parson wrote. “He is coming off his fourth 4,000-yard passing season. He is entrusted with carrying the Cowboys’ passing offense with his arm, and he answers the bell more often than not. Prescott is a highly accurate passer in and outside of the pocket. When protected and with high-caliber weapons at his disposal, he will put up All-Pro numbers. The Cowboys put their offensive fate into Prescott’s hands, and he delivers.”
For the Cowboys last season, Prescott finished with 4,552 passing yards, 30 passing touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 177 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns. The four-time Pro Bowler played in all 17 regular-season games, going 7-9-1 while completing 67.3% of his passes.
Despite Prescott’s stellar statistical numbers in 2025, the Cowboys missed the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
Prescott enters this season 83-55-1 in the regular season and 2-5 in the playoffs as Dallas’ starting quarterback. The 33-year-old knows how badly Cowboys fans want to celebrate a Super Bowl win and he’s not shying away from those lofty goals.
Prescott wore a vintage T-shirt from the Cowboys’ last Super Bowl appearance — Super Bowl XXX in 1995 — when the team arrived in Oxnard, California, for training camp. It appears Prescott is trying to speak things into existence this year.
“We want stuff in life a lot of times, but then when people start talking about it, you kind of hesitate. ‘Should I say that if they’re going to hold me to it?'” Prescott said, via ESPN. “Well, absolutely. Playing in this organization, being in it 10 years, going into year 11, I’m not going to shy away from it. When you don’t have it, it sucks when you don’t get to play for it. When you’re watching other teams play in the playoffs, there’s nothing worse than that. And so, yeah, I said I’d be the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys when I was 6 years old and said I’d be in the NFL, and I got here.
“A lot of things in my life, I said I’d do and I did it. And so why shy away from that now? Why shy away from asking people to hold me to the same standard that I believe that I can accomplish and this team can accomplish?”
Prescott has 35,989 passing yards, 243 passing touchdowns, 2,115 rushing yards and 31 rushing touchdowns in the regular season. He’s been with the team since 2016.
The Cowboys were second in yards per game and seventh in points in 2025, but Prescott wants to raise the bar this season.
“A lot of times you have a lot of [personnel] turnover. We didn’t have much turnover at all on our offensive side. We added some guys and some younger guys are going to have to step up,” Prescott said. “So maybe we seasoned the group a little bit and guys are getting older, but we were close to some historic things last year. And when you have the guys [we have], why can’t we be? And just yet, let’s be the greatest offense there is.
“You’ve heard, ‘The Greatest Show on Turf,’ and all the other different nicknames. … Each and every one of them loved it or taken pride in it. And that’s as cool as anything, is to watch them take pride in and watch them talk about it and say it to each other. It’s the way that we’ve been practicing. We’re just going to keep pushing each other.”
The Cowboys open the 2026 season against the rival New York Giants. It’s put-up-or-shut-up time for Prescott and Co. and the gunslinger is aware that time is running out to win it all.
“I’m blessed to obviously be here 10 years, but to watch what’s happened over the last couple years and to see his mind and his urgency and him still wanting to do whatever he can to make this team better, that’s why you play and practice and make sure you give this team everything you can is because when the owner’s doing it and it’s going from the top to the bottom,” Prescott said. “Why not? And life’s about being urgent. A lot of us want to wait and want to say, ‘Oh, we’ll do it later,’ but what are we really promised? Whether it’s football or whether it’s life. And so why not now?”
