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The 2024 calendar year has been different for Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.
A year ago at this time, he was in the process of putting together the most efficient season of his NFL career with a personal best 105.9 passer rating en route to leading the NFL with 36 touchdown passes and the Cowboys to a 12-5 regular season for the third year in a row. Now, Dallas is 5-7, after Prescott suffered a season-ending hamstring injury that required him traveling up to New York for surgery. On Tuesday, Prescott celebrated the small victory of being able to drive again for the first time since the procedure in November.
“I feel good. Still on the crutches. I’ll be on the crutches for a little bit longer but starting to walk a little bit more with my weight,” Prescott told CBS Sports on Tuesday. “Getting to drive today, that’s something new. So that’s a step. It’s a little goal in the process but yeah, start starting to be able to do more, which is fun for me and now I can start collecting my small victories.”
The next major item of his recovery check list is simply being able to drop his crutches for both a few physical therapy exercises and then eventually full-time weight-bearing on his own. Despite suffering the second season-ending injury of his career to his lower body — his gruesome ankle fracture in 2020 and the hamstring tear in 2024 — Prescott doesn’t see much of stylistic change to the way he plays the quarterback position going forward. He’s looking to get back to his 2023 play after registering an 86.0 passer rating, the lowest of his nine-year career, while throwing for 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions and completing 64.7% of his passes, the second-lowest completion percentage of his career.
“I don’t think it will change much,” Prescott said of his injury. “I think I honestly this rehab being such a hamstring, a runner’s injury, the fact of me feeling 100% is…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-12-03 23:49:00
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