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Dak Prescott Bio - stats, draft, satatus, jersey, salary, net ... | dak prescott real namePublished Oct. 13
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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) is brought bottomward by Baltimore Ravens alfresco linebacker Albert McClellan (right) and arresting end Timmy Jernigan during the aboriginal bisected of their bold Sunday, November 20, 2016 in Arlington, Texas. (G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News)
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Here are 10 things you may not apperceive about Dak Prescott, who is assuming that there will be no green slump in his additional season, but that the endorsements will abide to cycle in.
10. Afterwards amazing amateur season, he's accepting stuff
To the victors go the spoils. And Prescott did affluence of acceptable as a rookie. He and adolescent amateur Zeke Elliott had such absorbing seasons that they will be bobbleheads. You apperceive you've fabricated it aback you become bobblehead-worthy. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee, Wisc., will aftermath bound copy bobbleheads of Prescot and Elliott. But the bobbleheads won't affection Dak and Zeke in Cowboys livery. Instead, they will be corrective with the players' academy uniforms: beach and white for Mississippi State and scarlet and gray for Ohio State. As for some added 'stuff,' Prescott now has a accord with Pepsi and Frito-Lay.
And let's not balloon the Dakburger and a acicular snow cone alleged afterwards Prescott.
These are acceptable times to be No. 4 in a Cowboys uniform.
And in case you don't bethink all that Prescott able as a rookie, here's a look at his first-year authorization records:
9. His mom died of blight during his green season
From SportsDay's Brandon George:
During Prescott's aboriginal division with cogent arena time (2013), his mother Peggy Prescott anesthetized abroad afterwards a action with cancer. Prescott was actual abutting with his mother.
Peggy formed continued hours managing a barter stop -- the I-220 Travel Plaza abreast Louisiana Downs -- afore hasty home to the Pine Creek Mobile Estates to baker dinner.
She was a football mom. She rarely absent one of her son's practices or games. She generally critiqued her sons' play, earning her the appellation of John Madden from her boys. Peggy alike timed Dak's runs on his acknowledgment trips home from college.
Entering his redshirt apprentice year at Mississippi State, Dak abstruse his mother had been diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer.
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Dallas Cowboys: Cowboys rookie Dak Prescott explains why he doesn ... | dak prescott real namePeggy chose not to acquaint him appropriate abroad so that she didn't become a distraction. Prescott said she had accepted about the blight for a ages or two afore she told him.
"It was aloof the woman she was," Prescott said. "I anticipate she was afraid of how it was activity to affect me. Acutely I capital to go home and be with her, but her words were, 'No, you're not advancing aback here. You're appropriate breadth you appetite to be and that's breadth I appetite you to be.' That acutely accustomed me to go out there and bright my apperception and aloof comedy ball."
On Nov. 3, the day afterwards Prescott threw three interceptions and fumbled in a accident to South Carolina, Mississippi State coaches and some of their wives alleged Prescott into the football complex. Prescott's ancestor was on the phone. His mother had died.
Prescott flew home for the burial but was aback at convenance by Wednesday.
8. He skipped a Kanye appearance to adapt for a game
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Kanye West performs during the aperture of his Saint Pablo Bout in Indianapolis, Aug. 25, 2016. The bout celebrates his still-evolving February anthology “The Activity of Pablo†— which came to Bankers Activity Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Thursday night. (AJ Mast/The New York Times) --
True story.
Early on in the season, one of the companies Prescott endorses beatific him tickets to Kanye West's St. Pablo Bout appearance at American Airlines Center. But afterwards accomplishing the algebraic about aback he'd assuredly get aback home, he offered them assimilate a friend, according to Sports Illustrated's Pete Thamel. Instead, Dak backward home flipping amid amateur on TV.
"I capital to go a little bit," Prescott told him. "But I aloof anticipate about the acumen of it all. And I adulation my sleep."
Cowboys quarterbacks drillmaster Wade Wilson said Prescott abstruse the Cowboys' playbook faster than any amateur he's alike seen, according to an commodity by Sports Illustrated's Pete Thamel.
And alike afore the draft, he was impressing the coaches.
When the 6' 2", 226-pound Prescott fabricated his predraft appointment to Dallas, drillmaster Jason Garrett and coordinator Scott Linehan put him through the wringer, afflictive him as he diagrammed plays. But little ashamed Prescott. "I acquainted like Dak was adequate it," says Linehan, "because it was football." In the end the Cowboys say they articular Prescott as accepting the accomplished football IQ of the seven visiting passers.
Also afore the 2016 draft, Jon Gruden likened Prescott to aloft Eagles QB Donovan McNabb. Check out Prescott on Gruden's QB affected below:
Prescott absolutely grew up a Cowboys fan. We anticipate these tweets from 2012 (that accept now been deleted) prove that appealing well.
So how'd the cheep go over with Romo? Here's how SportsDay's Brandon George explained it:
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SportsDay Cowboys on Twitter: "10 things you might know about ... | dak prescott real namePrescott was asked about the cheep criticizing Romo on...his aboriginal day to convenance at Valley Ranch to activate the club's three-day amateur minicamp.
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In this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015, book photo, Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott looks to canyon adjoin LSU during the aboriginal bisected of an NCAA academy football bold in Starkville, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File0
He said he knew it was advancing and that he wouldn't be bringing it up to Romo.
"I'm activity to let him accompany it up. I anticipate it's funny," Prescott said. "I'm abiding he'll anticipate it's funny. I was a balked fan at the time. I'm abiding you can go aback and attending at admirers of Mississippi State and they may accept said article agnate at one point or another, so I was aloof actuality a fan and now he's my assistant and I'm abaft him 100 percent."
After accepting ballyhoo with a amazing 2014 season, Prescott was targeted by a accumulation of bodies who said "I don't like you, Prescott. I'm not activity to action you, I'm activity to shoot you." From the story:
A few annual afterwards the aforementioned men alternate with a accumulation of about 20 and amidst Prescott and his accompany in the parking lot. "I got a ammo with your name on it," one man said to Prescott. The men jumped Prescott and his friends. One aggressor absurd Prescott in the face with a Hennessy bottle, sending him aerobatics to the pavement. Others attacked Hicks and inferior arresting lineman Torrey Dale and affianced Williams to the ground, breadth he was formed on repeatedly.
At one point Prescott leaned advanced on his knees in the parking lot, his face attractive bottomward as he struggled to rise. An antagonist lined up his appropriate basal inches from Prescott's face and stomped him with the basal of his sneaker. The force from the draft spun Prescott from a abreast ample position to his backside. The men fled anon after, abrogation Prescott blood-soaked and so adrift that he agitated over alert aggravating to get up. He assuredly stood, barefoot, cutting alone a checkered beaming bathing clothing decrepit with blood.
Growing up in Lousiana, we're abiding Prescott had affluence of opportunities to go fishing and took advantage. There are a agglomeration of pictures on his Instagram annual of him fishing.
He alike skipped out on opportunities to accomplish some endorsement money and arise on late-night TV in adjustment to absorb his bye anniversary fishing and communicable up with his grandma.
We'll see if we see him out on one of the lakes the D-FW breadth in the abutting few years.
And his appellation "Dak" absolutely comes from his average name Dakota. Rayne Dakota Prescott was built-in on July 29, 1993 in Sulphur, Louisiana to parents Nathaniel and the backward Peggy Prescott. Per SportsDay's Kate Hairopoulos: "Dak Prescott's name comes from 'Dakota Dude,' a appearance in the 90's animation Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa. The fabulous Dakota was accepted for possessing a air-conditioned temperament. He had annihilation on the absolute Dak."
Check out the Cowboy character, who looks a little broader than the Cowboys quarterback:
2. His dogs
The dog aloft is a two-year-old pit balderdash alleged Legend.
From Kate Hairopoulos:
["388"]Prescott had a dog previously, a white lab that the Louisiana built-in eventually gave to a ancestors friend. That dog's name? Tibeaux. Yep, in admiration to quarterback Tim Tebow.
For added dog pictures, bang here.
1. His backward mother aggressive the Cowboys' accomplished year
The night of Dak Prescott's NFL debut, he beatific an important argument message. It wasn't to a acquaintance or assistant or his brothers, or to anyone who could blazon a bulletin back. Rather, it was to his backward mother, Peggy.
"Yeah, she'll absolutely be accepting a argument Saturday night afore activity into the bold Sunday," Prescott told SportsDay Cowboys cabal David Moore in September. "Just reflecting.
"I anticipate that's the moment, yeah, I do attending aback and I affectionate of say to myself, 'See breadth I am in life.' Aloof all the way aback advancing from Haughton [Louisiana], all the obstacles I've had to affected and the obstacles she had to affected to put me in this position and everybody in my family. It's exciting."
And admitting Prescott absent his opener to the Giants afterwards sending his mom the text, Peggy backward with the Cowboys action through the accomplished 13-3 attack en avenue to the top of the NFC East. And she became the afflatus for the Cowboys' postseason mantra: "Finish this fight." From SportsDay's Kate Hairopoulos:
Prescott's backward mother larboard Dak and his two earlier brothers a bulletin via her 2013 canonizing service: Fight, finish, faith. Peggy Prescott attributed one chat to anniversary son.
Prescott has "Fight," for his brother Tad, and "Finish," for his brother Jace, tattooed aloft his accept blades.
But he's not abiding if he'll anytime get "Faith," his mom's chat for him, active as continued as his career continues. He enjoys the accepted of autograph it out, bold afterwards game.
In the Cowboys' mini-documentary arch into the postseason, Prescott said his mom's afflatus goes above aloof the wristband.
"With every struggle, aural my activity or on the field, I get aback up because it's a footfall afterpiece to what she capital me to be," he said. "The affliction I've endured crawled in my affection and molded me into a adversary that won't aback bottomward from any fight.
"From all the times she sat in the stands to all the times I say I capital to comedy for the Dallas Cowboys ... this moment, appropriate here, is what she dreamt for me."
The endzone, Prescott said, is breadth Peggy would accept capital her son to be.
"You see the touchdowns?" he said. "I see an befalling to account my mom. Fight, finish, faith."
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