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This offseason has featured a lot of talk about the Cowboys trying to find a quarterback who would give them better play behind Tony Romo in the event Romo has to miss time again during the 2016 season, but it looks like they’ll head into the season with a No. 2 who was on the roster all along.

Dallas took Dak Prescott in the fourth round of the draft, but owner Jerry Jones said on 105.3 The Fan Thursday that the team sees Kellen Moore as the backup for Romo when the season gets underway. Moore joined the Cowboys last season, played three times and started the final two games of the season, finishing the year 61-of-104 for 779 yards, four touchdowns and six interceptions.

“Yes,” Jones said when asked if Moore is the backup, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I think Kellen Moore has shown the ‘it.’ He has the instincts. He has the anticipation. He knows what’s going on. He gives me and us a great feeling about basically improving. Obviously those interceptions were not something you can live with, but some of the stuff he was doing was pretty obvious that the team was responding. He was able to move the team.”

Romo didn’t rule out Prescott getting snaps, although the best case scenario for the Cowboys would obviously be one that sees any snaps taken by backup quarterbacks coming late in games that they lead by a wide margin.