Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett told reporters on Sunday at the team's training camp he thought highly of quarterback Dak Prescott during the organization's pre-draft process.

Garrett, 53, is entering his ninth season as head coach of the Cowboys, but that doesn't diminish how highly he views fourth-year QB Prescott.

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“There have been so many moments with him … It really started in the process of evaluating him prior to the draft. The interview was very memorable to me. Challenged him on a couple things from his past and just his accountability, and how he talked through those situations as a grown man. As a grown man who looked you in the eye, shoulders are back: ‘This is what happened, this is how I dealt with it, this is what I tried to do.' And we all looked at each other and said, ‘Damn, this is a kind of guy you want as a leader on your football team.'

And I can give you countless examples, from rookie minicamp through training camp, then he gets a chance to play that rookie year, how he handled all the ups and downs of that as really pretty remarkable. His ability to connect with people is unique. The best leaders I've been around in all walks of life have that. … He just has this very unique way, and anybody you bring out to the practice fields afterward, ‘Hey Dak, can you say hi to my family?'

He just has this great way about him, and I think that comes out. That comes out in his leadership and how he connects with our football team, and again we're lucky to have him.”

Prescott, 26, was selected in the fourth round of the 2016 draft by the Cowboys out of Mississippi State. He was pushed into the spotlight of Dallas' shot caller when longtime QB Tony Romo went down with a vertebrae injury in preseason.

In his brief NFL tenure thus far, Prescott has earned two Pro-Bowl calls and won the AP offensive rookie of the year, too.