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The latest Dallas Cowboys training camp news is here.
The second-year left tackle avoided the worst possible news at Monday’s padded practice, but will still miss valuable reps.
UPDATE: 8:15pm ET
NFL Network reported that Tyler Guyton was “feared” to have suffered a torn ACL during Monday’s practice. Thankfully, this is not the case. ESPN’s Todd Archer noted that Guyton’s MRI results showed that the injury here is a bone fracture that will sideline Guyton 4-6 weeks.
It goes without saying that this is an incredible turn based on where things were with Tyler Guyton for about 30 minutes. Hope seemed a bit lost for the Cowboys season already and now we are talking about a situation where he may only miss a couple of regular season games.
This almost never happens. We caught a bit of good luck.
Diggs might miss less than four games.
He might not make it back by Sept. 4 for the first game against the Eagles, but Diggs is ahead of schedule in his rehab and hopes to be on the field sometime in September.
Diggs told Clarence Hill of All City DLLS he will not need to be placed on the reserve/physically unable to perform list, which would keep him out at least four games. He missed six games with his knee injury last season.
The Cowboys will be without one of their veteran OL depth signings for a while.
Dallas Cowboys guard Rob Jones suffered a broken bone in his neck in Sunday’s practice that will keep him out two to three months, the team announced.
Jones, who signed a one-year, $3.75 million deal with the Cowboys as a free agent in March, was hurt late in practice but he spent time post-practice working with first-round pick Tyler Booker on their craft.
Booker has taken most of the snaps with the starters at left guard, but Jones was with the starters on Saturday.
The challenge of building a strong ground game in Dallas under new offensive coaching just got even harder with these OL injuries.
Biggest challenge: Building a reliable running game.
Dallas has done a nice job of adding young talent to its offensive line, drafting three first-round picks for the unit over the last four years, including this year’s selection, guard Tyler Booker. Now we need to see how the players carrying the ball behind those blockers operate. The Cowboys’ running back room isn’t going...
