Is Dak Prescott playing this week?
No injury designationDak Prescott has no injury designation on the latest injury reports for the week 4 game at the Houston Texans.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 1:00 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:18 PM ET against the ESPN injury report and the NFL's official weekly report (via nflverse). Injury news can change up to kickoff, so confirm with the team close to game time.
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Fantasy football · Week 4
Our own start/sit calls for every player, with a projected score, the range of likely outcomes and the reasons spelled out. Built from usage, matchup, Vegas lines and injuries. How we rank
Start. Projected 18.1 points, #9 among QBs this week.
Why we say start
- Projected 18.1 points, #9 among QBs this week, inside the top 12 we recommend starting.
- Averaging 35 pass attempts a game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 16.5 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~23 pts
- Vegas line
- DAL underdogs by 3
- Game total
- 48.5
- HOU vs QBs
- 11% fewer points
All week 4 quarterback rankings →Start or sit tool →How our past calls did →
Age
33
Height
6'2"
Weight
230 lb
College
Mississippi State
Experience
10 seasons
Draft
2016 · Pick #135 (DAL)
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 79.6?
Prescott's grade is driven by accurate passing and efficient drives: he ranks 5th in completion percentage over expected and 4th in opponent-adjusted EPA per dropback. The sample is small, just 109 dropbacks over 3 games. His week 3 loss-of-form against Baltimore was the low point.
Lifting the grade
- Completion percentage over expected of +6.3 points ranks 5th of 27 QBs.
- EPA per dropback of +0.306 expected points ranks 4th of 27 after adjusting for defenses.
- Week 3 vs BAL: a 49-yard deep pass to Lamb in the fourth quarter added 3.7 expected points.
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 4. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
0.311
Success rate
53%
WPA (sum)
0.65
Opponent adj.
-0.005
Plays graded
109
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 3 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats| Week | Time to throw | Aggressiveness | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.75s | 14.7% | +4.8% |
| 2 | 2.66s | 16.1% | +17.7% |
| 3 | 2.67s | 22.5% | -2.4% |
What do these mean?
- Time to throw:
- Average seconds from snap to release.
- Aggressiveness:
- Share of throws into tight coverage, with a defender within one yard of the receiver.
- CPOE:
- Completion percentage over expected. Compares actual completions to what the difficulty of each throw predicts.
- Expected comp %:
- The completion percentage the throws would be expected to produce.
- Completed air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on completions.
- Intended air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on all attempts.
- Air yds differential:
- Completed air yards minus intended air yards. Negative means completions come shorter than the throws attempted.
- Air yds to sticks:
- How far the average throw travels past (or short of) the first-down marker.
Next Gen Stats data via nflverse (CC BY 4.0). Updated after games are final, not live, and covers QB, RB, WR and TE.