Dak Prescott says he could ‘play a game today’ after hamstring injury, Joe Milton trade

Don’t put nan recently acquired Joe Milton III into nan Cowboys starting lineup conscionable yet.

Three-time Pro Bowl backmost Dak Prescott, who missed nan last 9 games of past play aft undergoing hamstring surgery, said he would beryllium fresh to make his return if nan Cowboys were playing successful April.

“If I had to play a crippled today, I decidedly could do that,” Prescott reportedly said Friday astatine nan 35th annual Children’s Cancer Fund gala. “It’s astir moving guardant patient to make judge I tin play 17 times, 20 (games). Whatever we get to erstwhile nan time’s right.”

One twelvemonth aft finishing 2nd successful nan 2023 NFL MVP ballot and earning a immense contract, Prescott was connected gait for arguably nan worst play of his profession moreover anterior to suffering nan season-ending injury. He had 11 touchdown passes and 8 interceptions during a 3-5 start.

Prescott was caller disconnected signing a four-year, $240 cardinal statement hold conscionable earlier Week 1 to go nan first $60 million-per-year backmost successful NFL history. That upped nan stakes for him to lead nan Cowboys heavy into nan playoffs – thing missing from his nine-year resume.

The Cowboys conscionable traded a fifth-round prime to nan Patriots for Milton and a seventh-round pick, which sparked immoderate questions astir nan timeline for Prescott’s recovery. Especially because Milton reportedly sees himself arsenic a starter who wants to compete for a occupation — not beryllium astir arsenic insurance. 

But Prescott, 31, sounds for illustration he will beryllium connected nan section for OTAs adjacent month.

“I’m getting adjacent to wherever I want to be. I don’t want to put a percent connected it,” he said. “I cognize we’ve sewage squad activities coming up. Imagine myself being progressive successful immoderate sort, if not all.

“Then again, I conscionable understand my age, what I’ve had, what I’ve went through. It’s astir being my champion successful nan fall. So I’m not rushing anything, but I’m wherever I want to be.”