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Dak Prescott wrote a heartbreaking letter 15 minutes after learning of his brother's death

Dak Prescott endured a year in 2020 that might have broken many other people.

The Dallas Cowboys quarterback first experienced tragedy with the suicide of his brother that April. Then Prescott suffered a gruesome leg injury that prematurely ended his season. And topping it all off, he was embroiled in very heated contract negotiations, with the injury complicating that matter significantly.

Yet he never ran from his problems. Instead, he faced them head-on.

In a stirring profile in Sports Illustrated, Prescott revealed what happened in the moments after learning of the death of his older brother, Jace, on April 23, 2020.