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Kirk Cousins had the gaudier stats in Thursday’s game, but Dak Prescott’s team got the win.

The Cowboys held off the Redskins 31-26 after a high-scoring fourth quarter, moving them to 10-1 on the season and continuing Prescott’s remarkable run from the fourth round of the draft to a prominent spot on the list of 2016’s best quarterbacks. Prescott finished the day 17-of-24 for 195 yards and a touchdown, ran for 39 yards and another touchdown and never turned the ball over.

That last part was the focus of Redskins safety Donte Whitner’s postgame reaction to facing Prescott.

“They’re very frustrating. You have a lot of quarterbacks in the National Football League that take chances with the football and [you] get the opportunity for interceptions,” Whitner said, via the Dallas Morning News. “To put the ball on the ground when you get to them, when you sack them. This quarterback doesn’t do that. … That’s why he’s playing so well. He understands situations, he’s not trying to turn the football over, and he’s taking this opportunity and running with it.”

The mixture of throwing, running and ball control have been essential to Prescott’s success this season and he doesn’t show signs of slipping on any front 11 games into his rookie season. That’s left the NFC in search of a way to make him slip before the Cowboys run continues all the way through the postseason.