Rich Cooling urged dynasty managers to pounce on Dak Prescott right now, calling his current QB19 ADP “absolutely insane.” Cooling argued that the offseason is always the softest point in the quarterback market because managers convince themselves they are set at the position until bye weeks and injuries hit in October. Prescott just led the NFL in touchdown passes and finished as a top-3 fantasy quarterback last season, yet managers are pricing him behind fringe QB2s. Cooling’s strategy for contending rosters is to roster four or five NFL starters before Week 1; once quarterbacks start going down, that depth becomes scarce and rival managers will pay premium prices. Buying Prescott now locks in a weekly starter for 2024 and gives you a chip you can flip later for extra first-round capital if you need flexibility.

Ryan McDowell noted that Prescott was a top-10 dynasty quarterback before last season’s injury yet still sits at QB17 nearly six months later—an anomaly compared to most injured stars who regain value by February. Prescott has finished as a QB1 in 54 percent of his career games and, per McDowell, remains an ideal QB2 target in the third or fourth round for managers opening WR-heavy. The veteran’s floor combined with today’s unprecedented depth at the position allows drafters to sidestep an early QB run, grab elite receivers, and circle back to a proven producer whose price has not rebounded the way market history suggests it should.

Rich Cooling could not fathom Dak Prescott falling to QB17 (39 overall) in Superflex startups. Prescott has averaged 20+ fantasy points per game in six straight seasons and remains tethered to Dallas through at least 2027 thanks to a $108 million dead-cap hit that makes him virtually uncuttable. That three-year runway of job security, plus an offense still anchored by CeeDee Lamb, allows drafters to open RB/WR heavy and scoop Prescott in the fourth round as a high-floor QB2—or even a back-end QB1—who rarely busts. Cooling emphasized how difficult it is for rookie quarterbacks to reach a second contract with their original team, making Prescott’s contractual stability and proven production an undervalued asset in dynasty startup rooms.

Conner Allen recommended Dak Prescott at 45-1 for MVP, arguing that Dallas’ roster construction all but forces a throw-first attack. The Cowboys replaced their departed bellcow with a committee of Miles Sanders and Javonte Williams, leaving virtually no running identity. Meanwhile the front office finally added a legitimate perimeter threat in George Pickens to loosen double-coverage on CeeDee Lamb. Allen noted Prescott is already 10-1 to lead the league in passing yards; pairing that statistical ceiling with an NFC East title would put him squarely in voter crosshairs. He expects Mike McCarthy’s offense to finish top-three in pass rate over expectation, which would give Prescott a realistic shot at 5,000 yards and 38-plus touchdowns—historically MVP-level counting stats at the helm of a 12-win contender. At 45-1, Allen called the number “flat-out wrong” relative to other veteran pocket passers in the 20-30-1 tier.

Sigmund Bloom predicted Dak Prescott will push 700 pass attempts in 2024, making the Cowboys one of the league’s pass-heaviest attacks. Bloom’s reasoning: (1) Brian Schottenheimer keeps talking about balance, yet Dallas failed to add legitimate early-down talent to a thin running-back room, suggesting the front office is comfortable winning through the air; (2) the most notable backfield move was signing pass-pro specialist Javonte Williams, a signal the staff prioritizes Prescott’s protection over establishing the run; and (3) organizational mis-management has repeatedly ignored cheap avenues to upgrade the ground game. All signs point to a volume spike for Prescott, which sets up favorable best-ball and DFS ceilings.

Davis Mattek snagged Dak Prescott after Patrick Mahomes went ahead of ADP and labeled Dak one of the best buy-low quarterbacks. Mattek noted Prescott historically outperforms when the fantasy community counts him out and said projections are too low on both the Cowboys offense and Prescott individually. He invoked the 2020 Dallas unit that led the NFC in scoring, arguing a similar environment could propel Prescott to a QB4 overall season at a mid-round price, making him an ideal ceiling option in Best Ball builds.

Pat Fantasy Dog Pound said drafters should pounce whenever Dak Prescott slides to the 129 range (roughly 10–12 spots past his current Underdog ADP). Pat landed him there as the finishing touch on a double-stack with CeeDee Lamb and Jake Ferguson, noting that the Cowboys finished third in points per game and led the league in red-zone trips last year. He thinks the market has over-reacted to summer WR fever and the softening of Ferguson’s price, creating a temporary pocket where you can lock in a proven top-six fantasy quarterback at mid–Round 11. Pat stressed that the closing-line value plus built-in Week-17 bring-back upside versus Detroit makes Prescott one of the best late QB bets in Best Ball Mania rooms that are wide-receiver–hungry right now.

Billy Jones said Dak Prescott remains one of the few QBs whose price is meaningfully climbing in an otherwise flat quarterback market. Jones argued the original BBM6 ADP was an "initial mis-price": Prescott is coming off a season in which all the regression indicators (league-leading TD rate dip, career-low INT percentage) point to a bounce back. Dallas upgraded the pass-catcher room, giving drafters more stacking outs than just CeeDee Lamb, so Prescott now fits multiple draft starts. With drafters aggressively chasing Week-17 correlations, Jones expects the climb to continue another 20+ spots and recommends scooping Prescott before he settles into the Round-7 tier of quarterbacks.

Tyler Sullivan advised fading Dak Prescott in the Comeback Player of the Year market and tempering fantasy expectations. Sullivan pointed out that Prescott was under .500 as a starter in 2024 and threw multiple interceptions in four separate games even before the injury. Now the 31-year-old returns to an NFC East that features Jalen Hurts and rookie sensation Jayden Daniels—both quarterbacks from 2024 NFC Championship teams—making the divisional path brutal. Dallas has invested in pass protection (two offensive-line picks) and traded for George Pickens to join CeeDee Lamb, but Sullivan questions a rushing attack led by free-agent flyers Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders plus a Day-3 rookie. With the Cowboys paying Prescott over $60 million per season, eight prime-time games, and realistically needing the NFC East to send three teams to the playoffs, Sullivan believes the pressure and surrounding circumstances make Prescott a poor value at short comeback-award odds and a risky season-long fantasy bet.

Pete Overzet warned drafters that Dak Prescott’s current Best Ball Mania ADP (121.0) is living on borrowed time. Last season Jake Ferguson’s sixth-round price tag organically dragged Prescott up draft boards, but Ferguson has slipped this spring, removing that upward pull. Now, however, a new dynamic is forming: George Pickens’ surge into the late-fourth/early-fifth range makes the CeeDee Lamb + Pickens double-stack attractive, and those drafters will not let Prescott fall far past the 10th round. Overzet expects “more competition for stacking partners” to nudge Dak closer to the Kyler Murray/Justin Fields tier (round 9) within weeks. His actionable takeaway: grab Prescott now as a discounted QB2 with elite ceiling attachment to Lamb before the stacking gamesmanship pushes him 10–15 picks higher.

Pat Fantasy Dog Pound said Dak Prescott’s early-11th-round ADP rise is only the beginning. He argued Dallas’ off-season 'upgrade' through the draft gives Prescott an offensive environment that was previously being discounted. Pat expects Dak to leapfrog Justin Herbert, Jared Goff, Brock Purdy and even Justin Fields in the coming days, pointing out that an 11-pick climb since May still leaves him below comparable quarterbacks who did not add weapons. The host framed Prescott as an underpriced QB1 who should be targeted before the market corrects fully.

Pat Fantasy Dog Pound labeled Dak Prescott a “major winner” at his 109 ADP—just one pick behind Brock Purdy—because Dallas added George Pickens without touching the running-back room. Prescott already led the NFL with a 50.7% accurate-throw rate inside the 20 and ranks near the top in pass rate over expectation in the red zone. With more pass-catching firepower and no new goal-line grinder to siphon touches, Pat expects Prescott’s touchdown ceiling to rise, making him a sharp QB value for Best Ball Mania 6 drafters who need a late-eighth/early-ninth-round signal caller.

Andy Holloway elevated Dak Prescott into his locked-in top-8 fantasy quarterbacks on the heels of the Pickens acquisition. Holloway emphasized that Dallas failed to add receiving firepower in the draft, so bringing in Pickens finally restores the down-field element Prescott lost when Amari Cooper left. Prescott already ranked #1 in EPA per play on go routes, and Holloway expects an uptick from last season’s 33.8 pass attempts per game to roughly 36 as Mike McCarthy and new OC Kellen Moore exploit the Pickens deep threat. That volume, paired with Pickens’ contested-catch skills plus CeeDee Lamb’s YAC prowess, spikes Prescott’s ceiling back to his 2021 level (4,449 yards, 37 TDs). Holloway advised drafters to take Prescott ahead of consensus options like Brock Purdy or Kirk Cousins, especially in leagues that award bonuses for 40-yard touchdowns.

Davis Mattek said the George Pickens trade is a game-changer for Dak Prescott’s fantasy outlook. Mattek bumped Prescott from QB18 to QB12 in his best-ball rankings because Dallas finally has a legitimate WR2 opposite CeeDee Lamb. Before the deal Prescott was throwing to Jalen Tolbert and Jonathan Mingo, a duo Mattek described as "no WR2 or WR3 at all." With a 24-year-old field-stretcher now on the roster, Mattek expects passing volume and efficiency to climb, slotting Prescott in the same tier as Brock Purdy and Jared Goff. The upgrade turns Dallas from a one-man passing game into a more balanced, harder-to-defend offense—good news for anyone drafting Prescott at his previously depressed ADP.

Pat Kerrane said Dak Prescott is one of the biggest ADP bargains on the board, calling the Cowboys signal-caller a full round and a half too cheap at his current 131 overall tag (roughly QB16). Kerrane groups Prescott with the post-Mahomes "sweet spot" of quarterbacks that he projects only a hair behind the flashy names going in the 90s, yet the market lets him slip into the 120s. Because Dallas added zero pass catchers, Prescott returns to the same pass-heavy environment that fueled CeeDee Lamb’s league-leading volume in 2024. Kerrane likes that drafters can snag Prescott as a QB1, then still grab inexpensive correlation pieces—Jake Ferguson in the 130s, Jalen Tolbert or KaVontae Turpin in the final rounds—without sacrificing premium picks. If he misses on the earlier QB window, Kerrane is happy to take Prescott, stack him cheaply, and leave room to tack on late rookies like Michael Penix Jr. or Bryce Young for three-quarterback upside in Best Ball tournaments.