Editor's note: This story was originally published in mid-November.
Football history is strewn with dethroned quarterbacks, two of whom now share a peculiar kinship with Tony Romo.
Neither of them is named Drew Bledsoe. Or Brett Favre. Or Joe Montana.
They are Matt Smith and Tyler Russell. They are the guys Dak Prescott rather abruptly replaced in high school and college. Precursors, it turns out, to Prescott's shockingly rapid uncrowning of Romo.
It happened to Smith at Haughton (La.) High School, then to Russell at Mississippi State. Both, like Romo, were entrenched starters until they got hurt.