It is becoming rare for a senior to be a top NFL prospect in today’s college game, but Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott is certainly making a push to be one.

Over the last three games, Prescott has thrown for 998 yards, 10 touchdowns and just one interception. In the same contests, he also has 198 yards and four more TDs on the ground.

NFL teams are beginning to take notice. Seventeen NFL teams attended the Mississippi State-Missouri game last Thursday, and Prescott was the top player to watch. Despite playing much of the game in heavy rain, Prescott threw for 303 yards — a season high against Mizzou — and four TDs.

If he can continue to produce big performances through November, especially against Alabama on Saturday, Prescott could move up the draft board. Prior to the season, many media outlets, including cbssports.com did not list Prescott among the top five quarterbacks for the 2016 NFL Draft or as a first-round draft selection.

The biggest concern NFL scouts had of Prescott before the season was his ability to be a pocket passer. His dual-threat ability helped him produce 4,435 yards of total offense last season, but most of his 986 rushing yards came from scrambles rather than designed runs. And when he stayed in the pocket, Prescott wasn’t always accuracy while completing 61.6 percent of his passes.

With those concerns, scouts compared Prescott to Tim Tebow. At 6-foot-2, and 230 pounds, Prescott is a bit smaller than Tebow (6-foot-3, 245 pounds). However, Prescott takes advantage of his big body and wreaks havoc in both the passing and running games much like Tebow did.

Both also had questionable accuracy. Tebow’s completing percentage was 64.4 during his junior campaign.

The former Florida quarterback was a first-round draft pick in 2010 and went 8-6 as a NFL starter. But his career didn’t last long, so a comparison didn’t initially bode well for Prescott, especially with a lower completion percentage.

Prescott, though, has been much improved in the passing department this year. He has only half as many rushing yards as last season, a dropoff that’s fine with coach Dan Mullen.

“Some of what you are seeing is he is doing a better job with decision-making, getting the ball out of his hands, making throws where in the past he might have taken off and ran with the ball in that situation,” Mullen said earlier in September.

Clearly, Mullen knew what he was talking about even two months ago. This season, Prescott’s completion percentage is up to 66.7. He has 2,351 passing yards, 18 TDs and just one interception.

Prescott’s yards per attempt is down from 8.7 to 7.8 yards, but credit that to making quicker throws. Maybe he isn’t throwing downfield as much, but Prescott is taking care of the ball.

It will be interesting to see if Prescott can shake the Tebow-NFL comparisons if he can continue to light up defenses the rest of the season.