Mike Florio Ranks Cowboys QB Dak Prescott on ‘Hot Seat’ originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
FRISCO – When Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is healthy for a full season, his team is usually the NFC East champs and is playoff-bound.
Unfortunately, injuries have piled up recently, meaning that Prescott has played a full season just twice in the last five years.
He needs to have his third in 2025… and he appears to be on that path now via his latest rehab.
“I’m healthy as I’ll be,” Prescott told reporters on Tuesday from his annual youth camp in Southlake. “I’ll be full go for camp. I’m healthy, yeah. I think soon here I’ll probably get an official sign off from doc.
“But I’m healthy.”
In the coming race with the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, Prescott is an X-factor who could play a pivotal role in who wins the NFC East.
There is pressure there … and maybe that’s why Mike Florio of PFT has put Dak on his QB “Hot Seat” short list.
Florio includes Dak and yet writes …
“He’s probably not on the hot seat, because his $60 million per year contract would wreak havoc on the salary cap if the Cowboys were to cut or trade him.”
Wait what? He’s on the Hot Seat list but he’s not on the hot seat?
Let’s make sense of this.
A Cowboys’ bounce-back season is in play if Prescott can stay on the field. And he knows that.
Is that “pressure”? “Hotness”?
Dallas, under new coach Brian Schottenheimer, is making moves this offseason to transition the offense back to being a run-first unit… so maybe Prescott won’t have to carry too much of the load.
Still, he is set to utilize newcomer George Pickens in tandem with All-Pro CeeDee Lamb in the air… so we could see a serious uptick in offensive production if the offensive line — which now houses three first-round picks — can keep Prescott upright.
Prescott went out at the midway point of 2024 with an injury in which his hamstring was torn off the bone; that might mean some level of caution this summer in Oxnard — no matter his declaration.
But the bottom line is that in his nine-year career, when Prescott’s healthy for an entire season, the Cowboys are a good football team.
And for 2025? He obviously feels the former can come true… which means for the Cowboys that the latter can come true as well.
In the end, Dak shouldn’t worry about Florio’s hot seat, all that matters is the driver’s seat.
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 10, 2025, where it first appeared.