Uh-oh.
The season hasn’t even started yet, and already Dallas Cowboys quarterback is in a freakin’ boot?
Really?
Seriously?
BRUH.
Yep.
And it’s July.
The news was reported by Fox Sports’ David Helman, their Dallas Cowboys’ insider, earlier this week (Dak Prescott: ‘Absolutely nothing’ wrong with ankle in boot | FOX Sports) who noted that Prescott was seen on vacation in Cabo San Lucas – and photographed – wearing a walking boot.
After he returned, predictably, Prescott was asked about the boot at his annual football camp this week in the Metroplex area.
“Honestly, I’m getting older,” Helman quoted Prescott, in the same article. “Same ankle that I snapped and had surgery on four years ago. So, a couple of hard days of training and you get a little sore. And then you go on a fishing trip and you want to protect it and make sure things don’t get worse.”
And then Helman rightfully noted Prescott’s injury history: the ankle that injured his 2020 season, a shoulder injury and calf injury the next year, and a four-game stint he missed in 2022 after breaking his thumb against the Tampa Bay Bucs.
Prescott assured that this is much ado about nothing.
“Literally, it’s absolutely nothing,” he said. “People are reaching, trying to make things that they aren’t. I’m getting older and having to take care of my body and be smart. If I have to take precautions and lessen something by putting on a boot, I’ll do it.”
Prescott will be 31 by the time the season begins, his ninth, all with the Cowboys. But there’s been no contract extension, so unless there is one, he’ll be a free agent following this season.
Prescott completed 410-of-590 passes (69.5 percent) for 4,516 yards, 36 touchdowns and nine interceptions last season, was sacked 39 times, and ran for 242 yards on 55 carries (4.4 a carry for two touchdowns and 21 first downs).
In the team’s only playoff game (against Green Bay, a loss), Prescott went 41-of-60 for 403 yards, three touchdowns and two picks, and had 45 yards on six carries.
In his career, Prescott has thrown for just shy of 30,00 yards: 29,459, to be exact, and 202 touchdowns, 74 interceptions, having completed 67 percent of his passes in 114 games. He’s rushed for 1,884 yards and 28 touchdowns on 407 carries, averaging 4.6 a carry.
And Cowboys skeptics will point out this number: with Prescott as a starter, the team has a 2-4 playoff record.
