"Who is this year's Dak Prescott?"

It's a question that's been asked throughout this year's draft process, given the fortune that befell the Cowboys with their selection of Prescott in the fourth round (No. 135 overall) of the 2016 NFL draft.

Prescott certainly wasn't projected to play much before Tony Romo went down with a back injury in the 2016 preseason, but given the opportunity, he cemented himself as franchise quarterback material during a stellar rookie season, leading Dallas to the NFC's top seed and winning AP Offensive Rookie of the Year honors.

So, again: Who is this year's Dak Prescott? Draft experts have thrown out names such as Pittsburgh's Nathan Peterman and Tennessee's Joshua Dobbs, who are not projected first-rounders.

But at least one league scout believes a franchise can draft a better quarterback than Prescott this week, though it would likely have to be in the first round: Clemson's Deshaun Watson.

In his breakdown of this year's quarterbacks class, Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ranks Watson as the second-best of the bunch (behind Texas Tech's Patrick Mahomes -- more on that in a bit) and shares insight on each signal caller from anonymous scouts. One of them had this to say about Watson: