FRISCO - Amid mountains of criticism of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, there's no denying that when he is healthy for a full season, Dallas is usually the NFC East champs and playoff-bound.
Unfortunately, injuries have piled up recently, meaning that Prescott has played a full season just twice in the last five years.
He needs to have his third in 2025. … and he appears to be on that path now via his latest rehab.
“I’m healthy as I’ll be,” Prescott said on Tuesday from his annual youth camp in Frisco. “I’ll be full go for camp. I’m healthy, yeah. I think soon here I’ll probably get an official sign off from doc.
“But I’m healthy.”
In the coming race with the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, Prescott as an X-factor that could play a pivotal role in who wins the NFC East.
The Eagles are Super Bowl champs and the Commanders have earned their buzz too following their upstart run to the NFC Championship Game,
But a Cowboys' bounce-back season is in play if Prescott can stay on the field.
Dallas under new coach Brian Schottenheimer is making moves this offseason to transition the offense back to being a run-first unit … so maybe Prescott won’t have to carry too much of the load.
Still, he is set to utilize newcomer George Pickens in tandem with All-Pro CeeDee Lamb in the air … so we could see a serious uptick in offensive production if the offensive line, which now houses three first-round picks, can keep Prescott upright.
Dak went out at the midway point of 2024 with an injury in which his hamstring was torn off the bone; that might mean some level of caution this summer in Oxnard - no matter Dak’s declaration.
But bottom line: in his nine-year career, when Prescott's healthy for an entire season, the Cowboys are a good football team.
And for 2025? He obviously feels the former can come true … which means for the Cowboys that the latter can come true as well.