Dak Prescott delivers historic playoff performance, enters company of elite QBs

Dak Prescott delivered a big performance on Monday night, and put up some numbers that propelled the Dallas Cowboys QB into the company of elite and all-time quarterbacks.

The former Mississippi State QB had 329 yards, 5 total touchdowns and a 143.3 passer rating.

The break down was that he passed for 305 yards and 4 touchdowns and rushed for 24 yards and a score. He became only the fourth player in the Super Bowl era with 4 or more passing touchdowns and 1 or more rushing scores in a playoff game, joining Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers and Matt Ryan, according to MSU.

Here are other accomplishments:

• Joined Manning as the only 2 players in NFL postseason history with 4 passing touchdowns, a rush TD and a 75 percent or better completion percentage in a game.
• Now the only player in NFL history with a rushing score and passing score in 4 straight postseason games.
• He’s the 6th quarterback in NFL history to record a touchdown pass and rushing TD in four career playoff games overall.
• Prescott is the first ever Dallas Cowboy with 5 or more total touchdowns in a playoff game.
• Joined Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach as the only 3 Cowboys quarterbacks to ever throw for 4 touchdowns in a playoff game.
• Tallied his 9th Cowboys postseason touchdown pass, which stands as the 4th most in Cowboys franchise history.
• At one point, had a string of 11 straight completions which is now the most consecutive completions in Cowboys playoff history.

Keith Farner

A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.