Dak Prescott’s season is formally over.
The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is ready to bear surgical procedure Wednesday for the partial hamstring avulsion he suffered on Nov. 3, proprietor Jerry Jones mentioned Tuesday on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan.
“He’ll have it there in New York,” Jones mentioned. “He had a very good go to final evening, and he desires to do this there. He’s bought nice medical medical doctors up there. It’s a extra widespread damage in hockey, and he’s bought medical doctors which can be very aware of the best way to restore that, and his prognosis is great. It simply signifies that we’re not going to have him the remainder of the yr.”
Prescott, 31, suffered the damage — by which his hamstring partially indifferent from the bone — on a five-yard run late within the third quarter of the Cowboys’ 27-21 loss to the Falcons in Week 9.
The Cowboys misplaced their first sport with out him, a 34-6 drubbing at residence by the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, with Cooper Rush beginning at quarterback.
Prescott visited a specialist in New York on Monday.
The damage dealt one other blow to a disappointing season for the Cowboys, who fell to 3-6 with Sunday’s loss and at the moment are 4 video games behind the NFC East-leading Eagles.
It’s additionally the newest important damage for Prescott, who missed the ultimate 11 video games of the 2020 season with a dislocation and compound fracture of his proper ankle and missed 5 video games in 2022 with a damaged proper thumb.
After final week’s damage, Prescott described feeling one thing in his hamstring that he had “never felt” earlier than.
“I felt it when I was getting up from the run,” Prescott mentioned. “I can’t even say that I felt it running. Maybe something on the tackle. Yeah, I don’t know, but when I was standing up, I felt something actually. Didn’t think it was much. You get tackled. It’s a physical game. A lot of times you feel different things and they kind of go away.”
Prescott signed a four-year, $240 million contract — the largest in NFL historical past — earlier than the season, then threw for 1,978 yards, 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions in eight video games.
A nine-year NFL veteran, Prescott led the league with 36 landing passes final season and completed because the MVP runner-up.
Regardless of Sunday’s blowout, the Cowboys plan to begin Rush once more Monday evening in opposition to the Texans. Rush is 5-2 in his profession as a starter.
“Cooper has shown that he has the capability to compete and win in games, and he does give us our best chance,” Jones mentioned Tuesday. “Frankly, that was really an out-of-character game for him.”
The Cowboys even have fourth-year quarterback Trey Lance, whom the San Francisco 49ers drafted third general in 2021 earlier than buying and selling him to Dallas final yr for a fourth-round decide.
Dallas is ready to host the Giants on Thanksgiving.
