WATCH: MSU on MSU crime as Preston Smith scores following Dak Prescott fumble
By Keith Farner
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Former Mississippi State teammates Preston Smith and Dak Prescott met near the goal line late in the fourth quarter on Sunday in the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Redskins game as Prescott fell victim to a collapsing offensive line.
Prescott was sacked by Ryan Kerrigan, which forced a fumble that left the ball just outside the goal line where Smith made a second effort and found the ball at his feet for a scoop-and-score touchdown. The sequence must’ve left Bulldog fans conflicted watching one of their own take advantage of another.
The result gave the Redkins a 20-10 lead with 4:55 left in the divisional game.
These types of plays are always welcome for a defensive lineman, but this had to be especially sweet for Smith having faced Prescott in plenty of practices in Starkville.
“If you ever hit Dak, that might have been your last practice,” Smith told the Washington Times two years ago. Smith had nine sacks in his senior season at Mississippi State in 2014. “I’d always get there and he might have gotten the ball off before we got a sack, but he’d always just run past us,” Smith said. “I always said, ‘Only if I could hit you, then you’d know.’”
Oof. That was bad Dak. #Cowboys down by 10.
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) October 21, 2018
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
