Now officially a member of the Dallas Cowboys, longtime Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton will be backing up fellow signal-caller Dak Prescott when the heralded NFC East franchise takes the field in 2020.

With Dalton moving into such a role for the first time in his career, he has since remained very complimentary of Prescott while most recently referring to his quarterbacking colleague as a “great leader.”

“He’s a great leader,” Dalton told reporters of Prescott earlier this week, via NBC Sports' Pro Football Talk. “You can see just getting the guys around him to buy in to everything we’re doing, make sure everybody’s on the same page, pushing guys to be the best they can be. I think that’s one of the best traits he’s got. Then throw in his physical traits of being able to throw the ball well and move around well and all the things. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know Dak. It’s one of things where it’s been a great friendship, and we’ll be friends for the rest of our lives.”

Even though Prescott has become quite the durable presence under center since originally breaking into the league with Dallas a few years back, the Cowboys no doubt have one of the top quarterback tandems in the entire NFL.

If Prescott was to go down with an injury, though such a scenario is highly unlikely if history has taught us anything, Dalton would be able to step in without a hitch, which is something that not many teams can see confidently with September looming large.