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Carson Wentz added a towel for his version of the Dak Prescott Dance

The Dak Dance is evolving.

The hip-thrusting warmup routine — since dubbed the “Dak Prescott Dance” thanks to Sunday Night Football — hasn’t exactly been a new phenomena. Tom Brady and Drew Brees have utilized the warmup for years. It just broke onto the scene this year for some reason.

But leave it to Carson Wentz to add a new twist to the dance — literally.

Ahead of Sunday’s NFC Wild Card matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Seattle Seahawks, reporters on the field noticed Wentz going through his own hip-thrusting warmup. But the man had a prop … a towel.

And of course Wentz was going through the stretch as Usher’s “Yeah!” played on the loudspeakers. It was almost too perfect.

I’m not exactly sure how the towel helps Wentz in the stretch, but I have to respect the effort. The Dak Dance is evolving.

Given that the Eagles-Seahawks game will be on NBC, we should probably expect to see more of Wentz’s Dak Dance.

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Tom Brady broke out his own version of the ‘Dak Prescott Dance’

Brady’s been doing the Dak Dance for years.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott may have been the one to send the hip-thrusting warmup routine into viral territory, but he’s not the only quarterback to make use of the “Dak Dance.”

Tom Brady has been doing it for years.

Ahead of Sunday’s Cowboys-Patriots matchup, Fox Sports aired an interview between Brady and Erin Andrews with the Patriots quarterback getting asked specifically about Prescott’s viral warmup.

Brady said he was happy to see Prescott use that routine and added that the Cowboys quarterback did a “good job” with keeping his hips loose. And while plenty of football players have mockingly imitated the routine, Brady said that he does his own version of the Dak Dance to warm up.

It looked like this:

Brady’s still got it, y’all.

According to a story from The Athletic, sports biomechanics expert Tom House had Brady and Drew Brees performing the warmup for close to a decade. Via The Athletic:

Prescott picked up the warm-up drill, along with a bunch of other movements, from Tom House, the godfather of sports biomechanics. House had his first major football client, Drew Brees, doing this same drill almost two decades ago. Tom Brady and many other NFL quarterbacks have done it for close to a decade. House calls it Step and Torque.

“When you watch Dak doing it, the shoulder goes back while the hips go forward,” says House, a former major league pitcher. “He’s actually patterning the nervous system and training the muscles in movements that are specific to what he does when he throws with an elevated core temperature.”

Whatever Brees and Brady did during warmups, though, obviously didn’t garner attention quite like Dak. He was back at it with the dance again on Sunday.

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