Dak Prescott became one of the best stories in the NFL last season when he took over for an injured Tony Romo and ran away with the Cowboys' starting quarterback job. Prescott ultimately put together arguably the best season for a rookie passer in NFL history, and he's now definitively the Cowboys' quarterback of both the present and the future.

People who have followed Prescott's career closely know that he came into the starting quarterback job in both high school and college in similar fashion. He took over for injured passers and simply never gave the job back. So, he's done this before.

What he also did in both high school and college was a whole lot of learning in a short amount of time. Prescott graduated high school early so he could enroll in Mississippi State ahead of time, which enabled him to graduate with not only a bachelor's degree in educational psychology, but a master's degree in workforce leadership as well.

"When I went [to Mississippi State], I graduated high school early, so that gave me an extra semester and time to work on my degree," Prescott told Talk of Fame Network. "So, I went into college as well and said I wanted my master's degree. So, to be able to finish with both of those was very gratifying."

"Even though I had all the confidence in myself in making it to the NFL or in the game of football, I knew that it could be taken away from me at any moment. I never wanted to be that guy saying, 'What if I'd have gotten my degree or something, then I would've had something to fall back on.'"

Now, though, Dak wants to go even further. "At some point, either when I'm done or one offseason, I want to start working on my doctorate," Prescott said, nothing that the field of study would again be psychology. "It's very important to me."

That's an outrageous level of commitment to education for a player that already looks like he could have himself quite a career in professional football. Dak doesn't necessarily need something to fall back on anymore, and if he did, he already has a master's. But the man wants to go out and get more anyway. That should be applauded.