The worst injury of Dak Prescott’s football career came at the end of a run in 2020. The moment that ended his MVP campaign and hampered him for the rest of the 2021 season came on a throw he made while on the run. The bitterly disappointing end to the Cowboys’ postseason came on a perhaps ill-advised Prescott run.
And yet, head coach Mike McCarthy is looking forward to getting his quarterback on the move even more frequently in 2022.
McCarthy addressed the media Tuesday, just before the team was to take the field for their first practice of minicamp. And the starting signal-caller’s status as fully healthy for the entire offseason was a hot topic.
“It’s been huge,” the coach said. “It’s been huge for him, it’s been huge for everybody. All the little things that we do- particularly the meetings, the walkthroughs and all of that- they’re important, obviously. But just for him to have no limits has been outstanding, and I think you clearly see it in the way he’s moving this year. You look at his body: he’s clearly different than he was last year.”
In June of 2021, Prescott was coming off a total ankle dislocation and compound fracture suffered the previous October. While optimism was high, no one truly knew what they’d be getting from the veteran as training camp neared.
Then he overdid it in early practices. A shoulder strain shut him down for the rest of training camp and the preseason; it wasn’t until opening night and a three-touchdown, 400-yard performance against Tampa Bay that Cowboys Nation could be sure he was back.
But his ground yardage dipped slightly from previous years, largely by design.
“I think it’s obvious we didn’t call as many quarterback runs than probably prior,” McCarthy admitted. “I think we tried to be smart when we used them. I think that’s only natural.”
Prescott recorded 22 runs over the first six games of the 2021 season, compiling 70 yards. Then he strained a calf rolling out to make the…
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