The list of impressive achievements for Prescott continued this week when it was announced he won the 2026 PFWA\u2019s Good Guy Award<\/a>, an honor given to the NFL player who displays the professional qualities that help football writers do their jobs. Prescott is the first Cowboy to win the award in its 22-year existence.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the latest conquest for Prescott, who also won perhaps the most prestigious award when he was named as the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year<\/a> in 2022. That was in honor of his work in the community, as well as being a leader on the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n There aren\u2019t many players in the league as well liked and respected as Prescott, who continues to be praised as a leader<\/a>. The \u2018Good Guy Award\u2019 shows that Prescott excels with the media as well.<\/p>\n Cowboys fans would like some of that hardware to end with him holding the Lombardi Trophy as a Super Bowl winning QB, it\u2019s all that\u2019s left for Prescott to achieve.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a> You can chat with or follow Ben on twitter\u00a0@BenTalksCowboys<\/a>\u00a0and be sure to follow\u00a0Cowboys Wire on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to join in on the conversation with fellow\u00a0fans!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 28, 2026, 9:10 p.m. CT When it comes to awards, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[95878,230,229,257,2461,7,6,119287,96666,96667,95882,96696,96668,96082,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":["post-904190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-cowboys","tag-accessfree","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallascowboys","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sourcecowboys-wire","tag-sstssportsnflcowboys","tag-sstsncowboys","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-tagdak-prescott","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116656590239482833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904190","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=904190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780038193_578_90027421007-usatsi-27931947.jpg\")