Dak Prescott has added another line to his Cowboys résumé, and this one puts him in a class of his own in franchise history.
The Dallas quarterback entered Week 2 three touchdown passes behind Tony Romo’s team record. By the time the game against the Washington Commanders was rolling, that gap was gone. Prescott threw three touchdown passes, giving him 248 for his career and tying Romo for the most in Cowboys history.
He wasted no time getting there. Prescott opened the game by finding CeeDee Lamb for a three-yard touchdown on Dallas’ first drive.
Later, he connected with tight end Jake Ferguson for a 10-yard score to move within one of Romo. Then in the third quarter, Prescott hit Ferguson again, this time from 12 yards out, to match the mark.
TD No. 2 for Jake Ferguson 🤠📺: FOX/FOX One pic.twitter.com/NKpsobgh9v
Prescott’s rise has been one of the defining Cowboys stories of the modern era. He arrived in Dallas as a fourth-round compensatory pick and has since climbed to the top of the franchise record book in passing yardage, where he entered Week 2 with 36,164 yards. Now he shares another major piece of Cowboys history with Romo.
The comparison between the two quarterbacks is impossible to ignore. Romo, an undrafted free agent, became a success story in his own right before injuries slowed his run. The Cowboys drafted Prescott in 2016 as a developmental option, with the idea that he could eventually follow Romo.
That plan changed quickly. Prescott had to step in as a rookie after injuries hit Romo and backup Kellen Moore in the offseason. He took over, led Dallas to a 13-3 record, and never gave the job back.
The numbers keep stacking up for Prescott, but so does the scrutiny. No quarterback in the league takes more criticism than the one running the Cowboys, and Prescott has answered by continuing to build a statistical case that’s hard to dismiss.
He also entered the game with an 83-56-1 career record, which put him behind Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach for the most wins as a starter in Dallas. Given the era they played in, their touchdown totals were never going to match Prescott’s, and he will eventually pass them in wins too.
But the bigger debate is about what those numbers mean. Aikman and Staubach led the Cowboys to multiple Super Bowls, while Romo went 2-4 in the postseason and Prescott is now 2-5. Staubach finished 11-6 in the playoffs, and Aikman went 11-4, which is why Prescott still has work to do if the conversation is about all-time greatness rather than production alone.
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