It was the run-up to the 2016 NFL draft, and one of those unforeseeable scenarios presented itself to multiple teams. On a mid-March weekend, the cellphones of personnel men with the Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos and Arizona Cardinals were suddenly ringing. Mississippi State’s Dak Prescott, one of the more intriguing quarterbacks on their draft boards, had been arrested on an early Saturday morning in Starkville, Mississippi, on suspicion of DUI.
This was a problem. A year before, Prescott was on video during a spring break trip in Florida being assaulted following a verbal altercation at a Waka Flocka Flame concert.