Dak Prescott added another line to his Cowboys résumé on Sunday, and this one puts him right alongside Tony Romo.
Prescott threw his third touchdown pass of the day against the Washington Commanders in Week 2, with the second of those scoring strikes going to tight end Jake Ferguson. That pass gave Prescott 248 career touchdown throws, tying Romo for the most in Cowboys history. He reached the mark in 15 fewer games than Romo.
It’s the latest checkpoint for a quarterback who has steadily climbed past some of the biggest names in franchise history. Prescott entered Sunday already holding the Cowboys’ all-time marks in completion percentage at 66.9%, passing yards at 36,164 and passer rating at 98.2, all records he took from Romo.
Before Romo, several of those numbers belonged to Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman. Prescott now sits in the same statistical neighborhood as Romo, Aikman and Hall of Famer Roger Staubach.
For Prescott, the climb has been a long way from where his career began. The former fourth-round pick was originally expected to be Dallas’ third quarterback in 2016 before preseason injuries to Romo and then-backup Kellen Moore changed the plan.
On Thursday, Prescott talked about what reaching this kind of company means to him.
"Yeah, blessed, humbled, thankful to have the opportunity to do so. This game has meant so, so much to me," Prescott said on Thursday.
"It's always been, since as long as I can remember, peace, getting out there and just playing this game has given me peace and a level of excitement and joy that it's hard to even put into words. And to now put myself in that category, it's humbling, but I expect to play for a long time.
And in my mind, I'm just getting started. I've said it before.
I think records are meant to be broken when you're playing long enough, and that's just this opportunity for me to do this."
He also made it clear how much he values the quarterbacks whose names sit next to his in the record book.
"I appreciate those guys having a relationship with both of them [Romo and Aikman]. ... Whether it's playing with Tony for a year or just working with Troy through charity events and just getting to talk to him on production calls, super thankful for those guys obviously being there for me if I ever needed them and lending a hand and setting a standard," Prescott said. ...
"It's made this job that much more fun. It's made you guys holding me to a standard that I appreciate and makes me be accountable.
So yeah, without those guys, there would be no record and thankful for them putting it there. But like I said, excited to break it, get it past and keep building."
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