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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is officially going to miss the rest of the 2024 season.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on 105.3 The Fan’s Shan & RJ show (h/t NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero) that Prescott will have season-ending surgery on his hamstring on Wednesday.
This is not an unexpected setback for the veteran quarterback, who injured his hamstring during the Cowboys’ Week 9 game against the Atlanta Falcons.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported in the aftermath that Prescott was “planning to undergo season-ending surgery on his partially torn hamstring, pending the opinion of one final specialist.”
Another serious injury was quite the blow for Prescott, who also suffered a dislocation and compound fracture of his right ankle during the 2020 season and was limited to just five games.
While he also missed five games in 2022, he appeared in all 17 in 2023 and completed 69.5 percent of his passes for 4,516 yards, a league-best 36 touchdowns and nine interceptions. That seemed to set the stage for an impressive 2024 campaign, but the injury cut those efforts short after just eight games and a disappointing 3-5 record.
Prescott completed 64.7 percent of his passes for 1,978 yards, 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions in those eight contests.
The season’s overall outlook was quite grim for the Cowboys after the hamstring injury, especially given their record and the hole they dug themselves in the NFC East picture.
They turned to Cooper Rush as the start in Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and will likely continue doing so moving forward. Rush has been with Dallas since the 2017 campaign and went 4-1 as a starter in 2022, but it was unrealistic to expect him to replicate Prescott’s production.