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The injury bug has hit the Cowboys hard.
The Dallas Cowboys’ offense is actually off to a nice start in this 1-2-1 season, but now they are dealing with an avalanche of injuries on their offensive line that had four of their five regular starters out of Wednesday’s practice.
Injuries are starting to pile up on offense, as CeeDee Lamb and Kavonte Turpin seem unlikely to play against the New York Jets, where Dallas will be in Sunday’s early game.
Through all that, Dallas is a 2 1/2-point favorite, partly because the Jets are winless and so far hapless this season.
Tyler Smith injury
The health of the Dallas Cowboys‘ offensive line is not good, and to a growing injury list, add Pro Bowl guard Tyler Smith.
At Wednesday’s practice, Dallas was missing left tackle Tyler Guyton (he’s in concussion protocol) and left guard Tyler Smith. Smith has a knee injury and had to get an MRI. There has been no word on the result of the MRI and he did play every snap against Green Bay.
Dallas Cowboys injury report
This is extensive. The Cowboys had 11 players either miss practice or were limited in practice Wednesday, and that doesn’t include players on the injured reserve who are not eligible to play this week.
The 11 included the aforementioned linemen Smith, Guyton and Booker. Other players who didn’t practice included safety Malik Hooker (toe), receiver CeeDee Lamb (ankle), Sanders (knee/ankle) and receiver Kavone Turpin (foot).
The Cowboys may have to dig deep down the roster on Sunday.
As head coach Brian Schottenheimer said yesterday, they are banged up, so much so that they have a staggering 17 players on the report this week.
In all honesty, it probably came at the best time though. They play the Jets this week and the Panthers next week. It should give these guys a couple of weeks to heal up if they can’t play.
Next Man Up
We saw this last week with George Pickens, but now it is going a big deeper.
KaVontae Turpin has a sprained foot and it also going to miss this week and maybe some additional games.
Turpin’s injury comes at a time when the Cowboys are also trying to get CeeDee Lamb back from the ankle injury that kept him out of their Week 4 tie with the Packers.
Turpin has 11 catches for 159 yards and a touchdown this season. He is also averaging 10 yards per punt return and 25.3 yards per kickoff return through the first four weeks of the year.
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