Dak Prescott became an NFL star in 2016.
In just his rookie season, Prescott, the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, helped guide one of the league’s marquee franchises to a 13-3 record and an NFC East division title.
Still, as Prescott told “Bully Pulpit,” the official podcast of Mississippi State athletics, Wednesday his fast rise to NFL fame doesn’t compare to the hysteria of his college fame with the Bulldogs.
“What I tell people sometimes, it was worse in college than it is now,” Prescott said. “They look at me like I’m crazy, but just on the simple fact of as we know Mississippi State hadn’t had that much success in football until the years of me and my classmates when we went No.