ARLINGTON, Texas -- A little more than two months ago, everything seemed to be right.
Dak Prescott stood in a small interview room inside Huntington Bank Field after the Dallas Cowboys opened the season with a win against the Cleveland Browns on Sept. 8. Hours earlier, the quarterback agreed to a contract that would make him the highest-paid player in NFL history: four years, $240 million, $231 million guaranteed.
All seemed possible.
Until it wasn't.
By this Wednesday, Prescott could undergo season-ending surgery to repair a partial avulsion of his hamstring, but the Cowboys' season goes on.