The Dallas Cowboys’ 2024 season didn’t go as planned. After three straight 12-win seasons, the Cowboys sunk to a 7-10 season and a lot of things that could go wrong did. While Dallas’s running game and defense were two parts to the equation, so was a hamstring injury for Dak Prescott, who missed the final nine games of the season after suffering a hamstring injury.
Prescott wasn’t having a great season before the injury, posting his lowest completion rate (64.7%) since 2017 and his lowest touchdown rate (3.8%) of his career. But his lackluster campaign has inspired him to get in the lab and make a big change that hopes to help Dallas turn it around next season.
Dak Prescott Reworks Offseason Program to Rebound In 2025
Prescott was part of the Cowboys’ annual Children’s Cancer Fund gala and fans noted that he looked slimmer than he did last season. While Prescott told reporters he didn’t lose any weight, he revealed that he shifted more of his 238-pound frame to his legs as part of the rehab process from his torn hamstring injury.
“It’s just the work I’ve put into it,” Prescott said via Calvin Watkins of The Dallas Morning News. “Unfortunately, I’ve been through this process of recovering from injuries before. I embrace it and I know a better version of me is on the other side. That’s just the way I approach this whole offseason, this whole rehab process and a sense of that I’ve moved weight around and I’ve lost weight. But I feel great and getting very, very close every day.”
Prescott knows that he’s not too far removed from his elite form. He had one of the best seasons of his career in 2023, completing a career-high 69.5% of his passes for 36 touchdowns and nine interceptions. But last year’s campaign added to a lengthy injury history that includes a pedal ankle fracture and dislocation in 2020, and a broken thumb in 2022.
But Prescott isn’t the only change that has been made trying to get that form back. The Cowboys parted ways with Mike McCarthy and promoted Brian Schottenheimer to head coach this offseason and perhaps the addition of another playmaker in the draft could help Prescott lead the Dallas offense back to where it was two years ago.
It’s a simple start but Prescott appears to be on the right path for a rebound season in 2025.