{"id":386870,"date":"2026-01-04T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386870\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:42:07","slug":"dak-prescott-with-4482-passing-yards-could-be-first-cowboys-qb-to-lead-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386870\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott, with 4,482 passing yards, could be first Cowboys QB to lead league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescot finished with a career-high 4,902 passing yards. He\u2019s considerably behind that number in 2025, with 4,482.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s still enough to lead the league. If Prescott hangs on for one more week, he\u2019ll be the first Cowboys player to finish a season with the most passing yards of any NFL quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Dak doesn\u2019t have much of a cushion. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford trails by only 34 yards, with 4,448.<\/p>\n<p>Lions quarterback Jared Goff is third with 4,233. Patriots quarterback Drake Maye ranks fourth, with 4,203.<\/p>\n<p>During Prescott\u2019s career-best season, he finished second to then-Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston, who threw for 5,109 yards. Prescott will see Winston on Sunday, when the Cowboys finish the season with a game against Winston\u2019s Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2019, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescot finished with a career-high 4,902 passing yards. He\u2019s considerably behind that number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-386870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}