Dallas Cowboys name Dak Prescott QB1 for Week 8

Tony Romo awaits medical clearance to practice with the Dallas Cowboys, meaning the team will start Dak Prescott after their bye week.

Dallas hosts the Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 30 in Week 8.

Dallas is off this week and at 5-1 has control of the NFC East behind Prescott, the rookie fourth-round pick who has surprised even his strongest supporters in Dallas. The fourth-round pick set a record for passes without an interception and threw his first Sunday at Green Bay in his sixth career start.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made clear on Monday that the team is not forcing the decision at quarterback, and with no timetable for Romo's return to the field, there is not yet a call for Jones and head coach Jason Garrett to make.

"For someone who has in many years been in after-game situations where we didn't know what we were going to do at quarterback," Jones added, "and as late as probably training camp not know where we were going at quarterback after Romo got hurt, and to be sitting here with Dak playing at this level and Tony getting better and better and better, I have to pinch myself."

The Cowboys expected Romo to miss 7-10 weeks when he was diagnosed with a fractured back on Aug. 25. While Prescott said Sunday that the Cowboys are still "Tony's team," Romo responded via Twitter, posting a photo of the quarterbacks together with the message: Our Team.

"I don't have any idea, no one does as to what the situation will be a game or games down the road," Jones said Tuesday in an appearance on KTVT in Dallas. "We don't have any idea. The main thing is we're all looking at the same music and we all feel the same thing. The team is positive with each other. We feel like we can make mistakes and overcome them. Everybody feels good about all of what we're doing."