Cowboys' Dak Prescott nears Peyton Manning, Patrick Mahomes streak

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott is one 300-plus-yard, 3-plus-touchdown game away from joining Patrick Mahomes and Peyton Manning in a small club.

Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys whooped their once-rival New York Giants 49-17 in Week 10. That brings the aggregate Cowboys-Giants score to 89-17 on the season. While Prescott didn’t put up all of those points, he did facilitate a lot of them, and he’s been doing that all over the league in the last few weeks. In fact, Prescott’s last three stat lines are so impressive, only Steve Young, Peyton Manning, and Patrick Mahomes have put up numbers like this before.

Prescott threw for 374 yards and three touchdowns in a Week 9 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, and in Week 8, he put up 304 yards and four touchdowns in a 23-point win over the Los Angeles Rams. With his 404 yards and four touchdown passes in the Cowboys Week 10 win over the Giants, Prescott now has three straight games of 300-plus pass yards and three-plus passing touchdowns.

Only three quarterbacks have had longer streaks of games with 300-plus pass yards and three-plus passing TDs since 1970, according to NFL senior researcher Tony Holzman-Escareno.

And those names are Hall of Famers (or shoo-in Hall of Famers) Steve Young, Peyton Manning, and Patrick Mahomes.

Manning and Mahomes both have four-game streaks.

Manning did it with the Denver Broncos in 2012, passing for 338, 337, 309, and 305 yards with three TDs in each game from Weeks 4-7. The Broncos went 3-1 in that stretch, losing to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the second game of the streak

The Kansas City Chiefs ironically also lost to Brady and the Patriots to kick off Mahomes’ 2018 streak between Weeks 6-9. Mahomes threw for 352, 358, 303, and 375 yards, with four touchdowns in each contest except for the last one.

Steve Young is the owner of this record, though, leading the San Francisco 49ers to a 4-1 record to open the 1998 season, only losing to the Buffalo Bills in Week 4 (Brady was still at Michigan at the time). Young threw for 363, 303, 387, 329, and 309, with three touchdowns in each game.

Dak Prescott looks to join Mahomes and Manning in Week 11 vs the Carolina Panthers.