Mississippi State's Dak Prescott on offseason attack: 'I was told I was going to be shot'

Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott made the decision to return to school as a fifth-year senior, foregoing his option to enter the 2015 NFL Draft to improve his skillset with another year in head coach Dan Mullen's quarterback-friendly offensive system.

Prescott's year got off to a very rocky start, and he now has a one-inch scar next to his right eye, after he was attacked while on spring break in Panama City.

"I get to wake up and look in the mirror to that every day and I'm not ashamed of it," Prescott told media members at SEC Media Days on Tuesday, according to Jon Solomon of CBS Sports. "I hope other athletes across the country noticed, saw (the attack) and are learning from it as well. But we live in a different time of day. Everybody wants to be successful. Some are jealous of the ones who are successful and do what it takes to take them down or to (maybe be) successful themselves."

The video of Prescott's attack went viral. He says the attackers knew who he was, and did what they did out of "jealousy," and that there was a remark directed at a woman he was with.

"I know exactly what led to it, but nothing that you'd say was worth that," Prescott said. "Just say ‘jealousy' is what fired it up. Me being prideful with what the guy was saying he was going to do to me led to that. I was told I was going to be shot."

Prescott says he declined to press charges to avoid being dragged in and out of court, possibly through the football season.

"They didn't hurt me seriously enough," he said. "They got a video out of it, that's all they got out of it. It didn't hurt my pride so I'm fine with that."