NFL Draft: QB Dak Prescott continues to impress in win

In his final college football game against North Carolina State, Mississippi State’s Dak Prescott continued to impress as he gets ready for the next step: the NFL Draft.

It hasn’t all been rosy for Dak Prescott and Mississippi State this season, but for the senior quarterback, it’s been a fruitful year in terms of boosting his NFL Draft stock. One of the top pre-season Heisman picks, Prescott proved this season to be a little less than Heisman worthy, but nothing short of excellent as he threw for 29 touchdowns and just five interceptions.

That’s less than half as many INTs as he threw a year ago (11) and he also managed to run for another 10 touchdowns. His completion percentage of 66.2 percent is the highest of his college career, the next highest coming in 2012 at 62.1 percent when he threw just 29 passes.

One of the top dual-threat quarterbacks in the country, Prescott has forced NFL talent evaluators to go back to the tape and see just what kind of player this can be. Is he going to be a first round draft pick? Maybe not, necessarily, but he’s a two-time first-team All SEC performer which is something that doesn’t just happen by reputation alone. Prescott knows how to move the ball down a football field, and he does it while taking care of the football.

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In games against top 25 opponents, Prescott was the nation’s leader in completions, completion percentage, and passing yardage. That’s got to bode well for his NFL chances as he played some of his best football against top competition. His game against Alabama was forgettable, but there have been plenty of times this season where we’ve seen an NFL starting QB in Prescott, and now he’s got to make the necessary steps in order to be one of the highest drafted players at his position.

Some outlets have him ranked as a top three prospect at his position right now, which is really saying something. Others have called him Tim Tebow 2.0, which wouldn’t prevent him from being a first round pick since Tebow was, but it would possibly scare teams off if they saw the same thing in him.

We’ll see Prescott in the Senior Bowl and we’ll also get a chance likely to see him throw at the Scouting Combine. Scouts are going to want to know that Prescott, unlike other bruising runners at the QB position before him, can beat you from the pocket as well as with his legs.

At this point, he’s certainly worth a look in the middle rounds, and an intriguing athlete that is going to have people going through all the tape and doing every bit of research they can to see if he just might be a possible franchise QB.

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