Dak Prescott’s season is officially over.
The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is set to undergo surgery Wednesday for the partial hamstring avulsion he suffered on Nov. 3, owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan.
“He’ll have it there in New York,” Jones said. “He had a good visit last night, and he wants to do that there. He’s got great medical doctors up there. It’s a more common injury in hockey, and he’s got doctors that are very familiar with how to repair that, and his prognosis is wonderful. It just means that we’re not going to have him the rest of the year.”
Prescott, 31, suffered the injury — in which his hamstring partially detached from the bone — on a five-yard run late in the third quarter of the Cowboys’ 27-21 loss to the Falcons in Week 9.
The Cowboys lost their first game without him, a 34-6 drubbing at home by the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, with Cooper Rush starting at quarterback.
Prescott visited a specialist in New York on Monday.
The injury dealt another blow to a disappointing season for the Cowboys, who fell to 3-6 with Sunday’s loss and are now four games behind the NFC East-leading Eagles.
It’s also the latest significant injury for Prescott, who missed the final 11 games of the 2020 season with a dislocation and compound fracture of his right ankle and missed five games in 2022 with a broken right thumb.
After last week’s injury, Prescott described feeling something in his hamstring that he had “never felt” before.
“I felt it when I was getting up from the run,” Prescott said. “I can’t even say that I felt it running. Maybe something on the tackle. Yeah, I don’t know, but when I was standing up, I felt something actually. Didn’t think it was much. You get tackled. It’s a physical game. A lot of times you feel different things and they kind of go away.”
Prescott signed a four-year, $240 million contract — the biggest in NFL history — before the season, then threw for 1,978 yards, 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions in eight games.
A nine-year NFL veteran, Prescott led the league with 36 touchdown passes last season and finished as the MVP runner-up.
Despite Sunday’s blowout, the Cowboys plan to start Rush again Monday night against the Texans. Rush is 5-2 in his career as a starter.
“Cooper has shown that he has the capability to compete and win in games, and he does give us our best chance,” Jones said Tuesday. “Frankly, that was really an out-of-character game for him.”
The Cowboys also have fourth-year quarterback Trey Lance, whom the San Francisco 49ers drafted third overall in 2021 before trading him to Dallas last year for a fourth-round pick.
Dallas is set to host the Giants on Thanksgiving.
