Healthier Prescott ‘excited’ to hit ground running

FRISCO, Texas — Dak Prescott is per week into the Dallas Cowboys’ 2022 official offseason program, however he already feels “fully totally different,” than he did right now in 2021 as he labored again from a compound fracture and dislocation of his proper ankle.

“A 12 months in the past, you are excited since you’re again in your leg. You are transferring it for the primary time. From one week to the following you get to do two jumps to a few jumps to jogging to sprinting, so that you’re excited and you’re feeling progress,” Prescott mentioned earlier than the Kids’s Most cancers Gala wherein he was named an honorary co-chair with Troy Aikman a Roger Staubach handed the torch to the Cowboys’ present quarterback. “However a 12 months (later), I get on the sector and I do not even take into consideration my leg. It goes from getting that leg higher to that is not even a thought in my head. There’s days, possibly the chilly entrance is available in, that I would really feel it a little bit bit extra, but it surely’s not a thought in my head or a fear or rehabbing on.”

Prescott had surgical procedure on his left (non-throwing) shoulder earlier within the offseason, however he mentioned “the shoulder’s nice.” Final 12 months, he missed most of coaching camp with a proper latissimus pressure after which missed one sport within the common season with a proper calf harm.

He mentioned he would possible proceed some form of prehab for the ankle harm previous to practices, “however not essentially possibly to the complete extent of the (resistance) bands and all that. However there are specific precautions and issues I’ll undergo to be sure that my leg is able to go and there is no small accidents coming off that.”

Together with his well being, he can concentrate on enhancing on the sector.

“I am not rehabbing one factor. I am engaged on my entire physique,” he mentioned. “From my foot velocity, it isn’t simply placing this down. Now it is, ‘Can I get this factor sooner than they’ve ever been?’ It is about enhancing on the individual and participant I used to be earlier than the harm now and being the perfect participant I may be for this group.”

He mentioned that is the healthiest he has felt in an offseason in fairly a while.

“It is thrilling,” Prescott mentioned. “Yeah, I imply throwing this morning and leaving that session, yeah, I imply pumped up simply the best way I really feel, the leg feels, the arm feels, the physique feels. Yeah, I am excited.”

Prescott was at The Star properly earlier than the offseason program started going by means of captains exercises wherein he mentioned greater than 20 gamers had been in attendance. With the official program beginning on Monday, the Cowboys had greater than 60 gamers in attendance on the voluntary exercises.

“That inspired guys. After they got here across the constructing, they noticed 15-20 guys round once we weren’t even voluntary and when it is voluntary I am positive all might be there, that they do not wish to miss. You do not wish to be the man that is not constructing the chemistry or constructing what we’re engaged on. I believe it exhibits the character of the blokes that we have and credit score to the entrance workplace and the coaches for getting those who wish to be right here when it is fully voluntary.”