Dak Prescott Praises Cowboys' Mental Health Resources on Anniversary of Marshawn Kneeland's Death

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott praised the team's Huddle 94 program, a new facet of the team's mental health resources, ahead of the one-year anniversary of Marshawn Kneeland's death on Friday.

"I think the team—I know the Cowboys, [team mental health clinician Dr. Heather Twedell], they've done a great job of putting something together, Huddle94, and allowing us to create conversations," Prescott told reporters . "[They allow us] to get together in smaller groups that talk about life and talk about things that are stressors to us that may have—if it was something that we had then, it may have helped Marshawn. It may have been something that would have been a resource for him to prevent what happened. So I'm just trying to honor him by creating those conversations, and by creating that group."

Per ESPN's Todd Archer , the Huddle 94 program includes "player-led roundtable discussions that are designed to add to the culture of the players' brotherhood, the to connection of the players and have conversations about the challenges they face on and off the field."

Kneeland played two seasons with the Cowboys (2024-25). On Nov. 6, 2025, he evaded officers during a traffic pursuit before crashing his car. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and had reportedly expressed suicidal ideations in his past. Following his death he was diagnosed with Stage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

One year later, the memory of Kneeland and what he meant to the players and organization hasn't faded.

"Mental health, just in general, I feel like it's kind of blindly being ignored," wideout CeeDee Lamb noted. "I feel like they see us as figures more so than people, and icons of some sort to some people. ... That was the first teammate in my life that I've actually lost. [You can't] really say that it's something you can really get over because you know that there's a family here and there's a mom crying and there's brothers and wives and everybody involved that's still grieving. So, for us, we got to keep him in our prayers. We do everything we can just to kind of honor him and do everything as far as something that I know he would do as far as come out, practice hard, compete."