As the 2025 NFL season approaches, Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott is on the verge of rewriting the team’s record books.
While national headlines often focus on playoff shortcomings, a closer look reveals that Prescott’s regular season production ranks among the very best in franchise history.
With just one more healthy and productive season, Prescott could become the Cowboys’ all-time leader in completions, passing yards, and touchdown passes; all accomplished in fewer games than the legends who came before him.
Chasing Romo and Aikman
Dak Prescott enters the 2025 campaign with 2,780 career completions.
That puts him just 49 short of Tony Romo’s franchise record of 2,829 and 118 behind Hall of Famer Troy Aikman’s 2,898.
Barring injury or an unexpected collapse, Prescott should surpass both marks within the first few games of the season.
What makes this feat so impressive is the efficiency and consistency Dak has displayed throughout his career.
Romo needed 156 games to amass his total, and Aikman required 165.
By contrast, Dak will reach this milestone in just 137 games by the end of the 2025 season.
That speaks volumes about his command of the offense and accuracy over nearly a decade as the team’s starter.
Closing in on History
Prescott’s 31,437 passing yards also place him within striking distance of two Cowboys legends. He needs just 1,505 yards to surpass Troy Aikman (32,942) and 2,746 to eclipse Tony Romo (34,183) and become the franchise’s all-time leader in passing yards.
To put it in perspective, Prescott has averaged more than 3,500 passing yards in every season in which he played at least 15 games.
If he stays healthy in 2025, breaking this record is not just likely, it’s inevitable.
It’s worth noting that while the game has evolved to favor the passing attack, Prescott has achieved this while often dealing with offensive line issues, inconsistent receiver play, and multiple coaching changes.
Still, his production has remained elite, a testament to his work ethic and football IQ.
Top Spot in Touchdowns
Perhaps the most revered record among quarterbacks is touchdown passes.
Dak Prescott currently has 213, trailing Tony Romo’s 248 by just 35 scores. Considering he threw 36 touchdowns in 2023 and 32 in 2021, this is well within his range for a single season.
Breaking the touchdown record would cement Prescott’s place in Cowboys history.
More importantly, it underscores the elite level of play he has maintained despite constant scrutiny and pressure from fans and media alike.
In fact, no Cowboys quarterback has ever thrown four or more touchdowns in a single game more times than Prescott; further evidence of his explosive potential.
Putting it into Perspective
By the end of the 2025 season, Dak will have played just 137 games, 19 fewer than Romo and 28 fewer than Aikman.
And yet, he will likely own every major passing record in the franchise’s illustrious history. That kind of production in such a short window should not be taken for granted.
Still, much of the criticism directed at Prescott stems from the Cowboys’ lack of playoff success during his tenure.
But football is the ultimate team sport, and postseason outcomes often hinge on more than just quarterback play.
From defensive collapses to questionable coaching decisions, Dallas’ playoff shortcomings haven’t been solely on Dak’s shoulders.
Appreciating Prescott
Prescott’s story is one of durability, leadership, and consistency.
He’s been the face of the franchise during some of its most turbulent years and has handled every high and low with class.
As he prepares to enter what could be a record-shattering season, it’s time for Cowboys fans to shift the narrative.
Rather than focus on what he hasn’t done in January, fans should appreciate what Dak Prescott has delivered from September through December: elite quarterback play that rivals, and soon may surpass, every signal-caller to ever wear the star.
In 2025, history will be made, and it will be made by Dak Prescott.
Cowboy fans, especially long-time ones, are accustomed to playoff dominance much of the time. Regular season stats are not nearly as impressive/important as leading the team, as the most important player on the field, to post season victories. Obviously, QB1 has been unable to achieve success in the most important part of the season, the post season.
When looking at the competition in the NFC East, until very recently, it is easy to see how QB1 was able to roll up these stats. Now the league has become a passing league. Add in the rule changes, like kickoff positioning, QB protection, and his infamous “empty calorie” yards, etc, it all adds up to gaudier stats.
“Shattering” regular season “records” is fine for QB1 but that obviously hasn’t continued in the great post season winning history of the Dallas Cowboys.
Agreed, but shouldn’t the same be said for Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert, etc. instead Dak gets the brunt of the media while the others are lauded as the greats. The media is a fickle beast and once they find a scapegoat they beat the scapegoat to death.
Cody, I think part of the problem with DP is he put a target on his back when he basically insisted on being the highest paid player in the league. I remember the FO offering him a great first contract which he REJECTED and then they caved in b/c they had no backup plan. Same with the second contract. And obviously he has not played up to his compensation. If regular season inflated stats work for some fans, great. But long time fans expect POSTSEASON success, and 2 wild card wins in NINE YEARS just doesn’t work for a lot of fans.
Secondly all those other QBs you mentioned are younger. And frankly I don’t care about the other QBs. And some of them do get some criticism also.
You keep saying that long time fans expect postseason success and you keep trying to put it all on Dak…. You apparently don’t understand the part about football being a team sport!! It takes a whole team to win a game, not just a QB!! When a game is being played you don’t see Dak on the field by himself, you see 10 other players on the field playing with him, and he don’t play defense, so he’s never on the field when our defense is on the field, so how can only 2 postseason wins in 9 years be all on Dak!? It makes no sense!! And again, the nonsense you keep bringing up about his stats being “inflated” is…. Ridiculous!! He gets his stats like every other QB does!! As a matter of fact, Dak had a harder time getting his stats up cause he didn’t have receivers that could get open for him, he was ranked towards the top of the league in tight window passes because his receivers couldn’t get open, so his stats were really well earned!! But again, all QBs get their stats the same way, so again, your inflated comment is ridiculous!!
Like the article said, this is a team sport, it takes a whole team to win!! So not winning in the playoffs is not all on Dak, that’s on his team and the coaches too!! And these so called “empty calorie yards you talk about is how every QB in the NFL has ever gotten yards!! Dak isn’t the only one that got yards from easy games, or field positioning!! So all these” reasons”for trying to discredit Dak for his accomplishments are nonsense!! Every QB to ever play the game has gotten their stats the same way Dak has!! The only reason people like you talk down on him is because he has the star on his helmet everybody used to say the same thing about Tony Romo, and as soon as he’s gone, everybody wants him back cause he was better, and I’m sure the same thing will happen when Dak leaves!! And people have such high expectations for the QB of the Dallas Cowboys that it don’t matter who the QB is, there’s always gonna be “fans” out there that make stupid comments like you just made!! We could have Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson or even Joe Burrow playing for us and they’ll still get the same treatment as Dak does, or Romo did, just because they have the star on their helmet and everybody expects more from them, when in reality they are only one player and can’t do it all themselves!! It takes a whole team to win, so it takes a whole team to make it to the Super Bowl and win the Super Bowl, not just the QB!! All the QB can do is throw the ball or if they’re mostly a RB playing the QB position like Jackson, Jalen Hurts or most of the time Patrick Mahomes…. They can run the ball!! That’s all the QB can do!! So passing yards, passing touchdowns, or any stat that a QB has on his own is what can be used to judge a QB!! And the stats that Dak has as a passer are top tier!! He is a great QB, and his stats prove that!! And I can guarantee that if Dak was the QB of any of the teams that won the Super Bowl recently, Dak would have won those games too, because those Super Bowl teams won those games because the whole team was good and they all helped to win those games!! That’s just how football works! :it’s a “TEAM” sport!!