The 2024 NFL season simply retains getting worse for the Dallas Cowboys.
Final Sunday’s 27-21 loss to the Atlanta Falcons dropped the Cowboys to 3-5 on the season, leaving Dallas mired in third place within the NFC East. The Cowboys are trying up at each the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders within the division, and their playoff hopes are slipping away from them.
The most recent bit of stories? Dallas is perhaps with out beginning quarterback Dak Prescott for the remainder of the season.
Prescott left Sunday’s loss to the Falcons with a hamstring damage, and the newest stories point out that the quarterback would possibly bear season-ending surgical procedure. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Prescott is coping with {a partially} torn hamstring, and Cowboys docs and trainers imagine the quarterback wants surgical procedure to restore the damage.
Schefter additionally stories that Prescott is touring to New York to fulfill with a specialist on Monday for one more opinion. Ought to the specialist agree with the necessity for surgical procedure, that process would happen on Wednesday.
Cooper Rush is the Cowboys’ backup, with Trey Lance another choice within the quarterback room for the Cowboys.
Talking with the media after the loss to Atlanta, Prescott indicated that he “[f]elt one thing I’ve by no means felt.
“I felt it once I was getting up from the run. I can’t even say that I felt it working,” Prescott added. “The deal with, perhaps one thing on the deal with. Yeah, I don’t know. However once I was standing up, I felt one thing, really. Didn’t assume it was a lot. You get drained. It’s a bodily recreation. Quite a lot of instances you’re feeling various things they usually form of go away.”
Sources instructed ESPN that Prescott suffered a “partial avulsion” of his proper hamstring, which suggests a part of the tendon has pulled away from the bone.
Dallas hosts Philadelphia on Sunday. The Cowboys have a pair of video games remaining in opposition to each the Eagles and the Commanders, which means the division continues to be a risk.
Nevertheless, it appears unlikely Prescott shall be within the lineup for them throughout these video games.
