Dak Prescott breaks the Dallas Cowboys’ all-time passing yards record

ARLINGTON — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is his own biggest critic. Conversely, he may be his biggest believer, too.

Which is why he wasn’t surprised, necessarily, that he found himself in a historic place on Sunday.

Prescott passed Tony Romo to become the franchise’s all-time leader in passing yards in Sunday’s game against the Eagles. On his first pass attempt of the second half, he hit George Pickens on a play-action completion for nine yards to break the record.

Prescott entered the game needing 160 yards to surpass Romo, who set the previous record with 34,183 passing yards. Romo set the record in 153 career games with the Cowboys; Prescott did it in his 133rd game.

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Prescott has now carved a decent amount of Cowboys history for himself. He’s first in completion percentage, completions, and passer rating. He’s second in franchise history in passing touchdowns, and third in wins among quarterbacks.

Prescott has been adamant that his focus isn’t on making history with the Cowboys.

“His focus is this football team,” Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said earlier this week.

And winning a Super Bowl. But still, becoming the franchise’s all-time passing leader is notable, even if Prescott confidently thought it was inevitable. He was asked if he thought 10 years ago, when he was a rookie, if this record was possible. Prescott said yes.

“When you’ve played in this game long enough and you can stay healthy, with my expectations of what my play is, that’s supposed to happen,” he said. “So just thankful, humbled, super grateful to be playing a game I love at this high of a level. To still be doing it and look forward to keep going any of those that will happen.”

The record, Prescott said, may have his name on it, but he also gave credit to those around him.

“It’s definitely something to be shared,” Prescott said, “whether it be with CeeDee [Lamb], whether it be with Amari [Cooper] had a big part of it, right? All these receivers. Michael Gallup played a big part of these records, right? Dalton Schultz. Jake [Ferguson], [Jason] Witten. Like, so many of them. I’m just a product of a lot of great players. And that’s my point, you play a long time and you play with the standard and expectation that I have, you should accomplish these types of things.”

Now he has.

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