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When the 2025 season kicks off in September, Dak Prescott will be chasing three Dallas Cowboys’ franchise regular-season passing records.
Assuming no injuries, he should easily surpass all three marks and fairly early in the campaign at that. Especially now that he has a legitimate WR2 in George Pickens to throw to.
If he starts the full year, he’ll draw considerably closer to two other categories as well.
To get one of the two, he’ll merely need to start at quarterback.
The other? That will depend a lot on how the entire team fares.
Let’s take a look at the records Prescott has in his sights in the next three years:
Right now, Troy Aikman is the franchise leader with 94 wins against 71 losses. For Aikman, his first two years were simply him trying to survive as the team rebuilt from scratch.
His final two years weren’t much better as the full effect of a team without Jimmy Johnson really hit home.
Most of his damage came during those five golden years between 1991-1995.
Roger Staubach is second with 85 wins and he only lost 29 games.
Staubach’s numbers would have been considerably higher if not for the five years he spent honoring his commitment to the U.S. Navy.
At age 27, he became an NFL rookie. He only started in four of the 14 games he played in over his first two seasons, in 1969 and 1970.
Just imagine his numbers if he had those seven early years back as a full-time starter.
Tony Romo is currently third with 78 wins and 49 losses. He did not miss as many years as Staubach did, but he never played a down in his first 22 games of 2004 and 2005.
Prescott will begin the 2025 season with a 76-46 record. With a strong season, he could pass Romo (3 wins) and Staubach (10 wins) and set himself up to pass Aikman in 2026.
Technically, Danny White holds the record of games played at 166. But most of his early career was as a punter and as a back-up quarterback.
He rarely saw the field at quarterback until after Staubach retired at the end of the 1979 season.
If you go by starts, White tumbles all the way down to sixth at 92.
Aikman again leads the way, starting in all 165 games that he played in. Romo is a distant third at 127 in 146 games.
Prescott currently stands at fourth with 122 starts, having also started in every game he’s appeared in.
Staubach is fifth at 114 starts in 131 games.
The Cowboys’ sixth game of this year would move Prescott ahead of Romo. The earliest he could pass Aikman for the all-time starts would be midway into the 2027 campaign.
This has been a three-man race for some time, owing to the different eras the top five have played in.
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