Kurt: I think it’s safe to say that Prescott’s days as a true dual-threat quarterback are behind him. We learned a tough lesson last year when those of us who wanted him to run more promptly saw him rip his hamstring tendon from the bone after a scramble. Of course, he was lost for the season. <\/p>\n
Even before that, though, Prescott wasn’t running much. He was on pace to finish with only 115 rushing yards, which would have been the fewest of his career. That full-season total would have also ranked just 30th in the NFL, a measly eight yards ahead of the 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers. <\/p>\n
Many now believe that teams need to have a dual-threat quarterback in order to be successful. Just look at the four quarterbacks left standing in the conference championship games last season: Jalen Hurts (Eagles), Jayden Daniels (Commanders), Josh Allen (Bills) and Patrick Mahomes (Chiefs). The first three all finished among the top-five quarterbacks in rushing yards while Mahomes obviously has proven in the past he can take off running. <\/p>\n
It’s doubtful Prescott will suddenly become a running quarterback again \u2013 he finished eighth in the NFL with 282 rushing yards as a rookie in 2016 \u2013 and he doesn’t necessarily have to be for the Cowboys to win. Then again, figuring out a way to at least make teams think he might pose such a threat could only help the offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kurt: I think it’s safe to say that Prescott’s days as a true dual-threat quarterback are behind him.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,417,16139,4661,1900,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-139275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news-all-news","10":"tag-news-kurt-daniels","11":"tag-news-mailbag","12":"tag-news-nick-eatman","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114703698796155757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}