IRVING -- No one claims the adjustment from college to the NFL is a snap.

But for Dak Prescott, it’s about the snap.

The first time Prescott took a live snap from under center in a game -- not counting work on the goal line -- was January at the Senior Bowl. The quarterback didn’t do it in high school. He didn’t do it at Mississippi State. Everything was out of the shotgun.

Prescott said he worked his butt off the last four months taking snaps from under center. How many times a day? One hundred? Five hundered?

“I was taking a good bit,’’ the Cowboys fourth round pick said. “If you want to count them, I don’t know. I mean, you’ve got to think about walking through the house doing those reps, too.

“I’ve taken a bunch.’’

In Prescott’s words, taking the snap itself is nothing. The key is to coordinate his drop with the play. That’s been his emphasis during the Cowboys rookie minicamp.

“It won’t be anything here before too long,’’ Prescott said. “I won’t have to think about it. I’ll just be out there playing and reacting more than anything.

“It’s more getting my feet together. I don’t even necessarily need a center. I can have somebody snapping me the ball, getting my drop, transferring my weight into my throws.

Offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said it’s a matter of timing. The rhythm of the play is dramatically different when the quarterback takes the snap from center rather than standing three to five steps back.

“It’s something that some guys can do right away and other guys it seems like it’s a little more of a transition,’’ Linehan said. “The one thing we felt great about with Dak is that even in the Senior Bowl it didn’t look like it was an issue.

“I’ve seen some of those guys come in there and bobble snaps and it’s like, ‘man, it’s going to take awhile.’ With him, it looked like he had always been there. I think that speaks a lot about how hard he worked and has been working on something he doesn’t do a lot. I also think he’s a natural athlete who gets how it works.

“We’ve got to work on it and spend time with it, but I don’t think it’s going to be an issue with him.’’

Prescott is confident it won’t be an issue for long.

“Give me a couple of weeks,’’ he said, “and you’ll forget I played in the spread.’’

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