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Why Dak Prescott absolutely deserves $40 million per year

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has heard it all before; doesn’t have pocket presence, isn’t accurate enough, not a high football IQ, improvises too much, not good at pre-snap reads.

Yet despite all these knocks on his game both while at Mississippi State and since going to the NFL, Prescott has managed to help breathe life into a franchise that was becoming very used to failure.

When drafted in the 4th round of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Cowboys, Prescott was never really thought of as being the immediate replacement for then-quarterback Tony Romo.