Dak will own most franchise records when he retires, but there is one thing that can firmly cement his legacy among Cowbosy greats.
When Dak Prescott's Dallas Cowboys career comes to an end, he will likely be remembered as a franchise quarterback who did everything except win the big game.
Now, we won't be in the tier as Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach, but Dak could be in the tier below with Tomy Romo and Danny White. In fact, some will put white ahead of Dak, and that's fine.
But Prescott, for all of his regular season numbers, most of which he will be the franchise leader in, one thing is stopping him from being mentioned among Cowboys legends, and that's a Super Bowl.
Dak currently has the franchise record for passing yards, is six touchdowns away from owning that record, and is 12 wins away from having the most wins (held by Aikman at 94).
So, in theory, Prescott could be the franchise's all-time leader in passing yards, touchdowns, and wins by the time 2026 comes to an end.
That is Ring of Honor type stuff.
However, that is all good and well, but Super Bowls are what quarterbacks are judged on, and despite his impressive regular-season numbers, Dak hasn't even sniffed a Super Bowl.
So, for CBS Sports' Bryan DeArdo, in ranking 15 quarterbacks who need a Super Bowl to cement their legacy, Dak comes in at No. 4, with Joe Burrow (3), Josh Allen (2) and Lamar Jackson (1) ahead of him.
"Prescott is a Dallas icon," DeArdo writes. "The franchise's career passing leader (he's also closing in on Tony Romo's career touchdown pass mark), Prescott will probably see his name and number immortalized in the Cowboys Ring of Honor sometime after his career comes to an end.
"If Prescott wants to truly be remembered as an all-time great, he can do so by leading the Cowboys to the franchise's first Super Bowl title since their 1990s dynasty. If he can win a Super Bowl ring, Prescott would not only join Hall of Famers Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman as the only starting quarterbacks to lead the Cowboys to a Super Bowl title, but he would also put himself in position to possibly join them in Canton."
You can argue that all that is missing from Dak's resume is a Super Bowl.
From his work in the community to what he has done on the field, there isn't much Prescott hasn't done.
But the one thing he hasn't achieved ... is glaring.
Could you imagine how Cowboys Nation and the NFL world would view Prescott if he were the one to end that now-infamous three-decade-long drought?
While a Super Bowl win putting Dak in Canton is a little too far for me, what it would do is firmly entrench Prescott as a Cowboys great, and would put him, maybe not in Aikman and Roger's tier, but close enough to it.
Prescott has done a lot in his NFL career, but that one gaping hole in his resume is the thing stopping him from cementing his legacy as one of the Cowboys' elite.
