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McCarthy: Dak Prescott has one chance to play in Cowboys preseason

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott wants to play versus Houston on Saturday; his coach says if he doesn’t, he’ll have to wait until September 9th. | From @ToddBrock24f7

Dak Prescott has expressed his desire to take at least a few live snaps in the Cowboys’ third preseason game versus Houston on Saturday. But the team is taking a slow and methodical approach with their five-year veteran quarterback, not wanting to risk further damage to a muscle strain in his throwing shoulder.

This week of practice will be the key: if Prescott isn’t far enough along in his recovery to play in the Houston exhibition, he won’t get game action at all until the season opener September 9th against the defending Super Bowl champions.

Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy put it just that bluntly as he spoke to the media Monday.

“If he doesn’t play this week, I won’t play him in the fourth [preseason game],” McCarthy explained. “To me, the fourth [preseason] game is for the players that are competing for the final roster spots. That’s what I believe in.”

McCarthy said he felt Prescott was already in “midseason form” when he alerted the coaching staff to soreness in his right shoulder during the team’s first padded practice July 28th. And just like that, no more throwing for the two-time Pro Bowler who was on an early pace to shatter the single-season passing record last year.

Prescott began doing just some light throwing again last week.

“You have to build up his volume of throws again,” McCarthy said. “We really don’t want to put him in a position where we can re-injure it.”

While the 28-year-old passer may be champing at the bit to get back on the field in a live-fire situation, McCarthy is exercising extreme patience.

“We’ll see how the week goes, but there’s no urgency, from my perspective, to see Dak play [against] Houston. This is more about we just don’t want to create a setback possibility.”

Prescott has put a focus on mental reps, reading defenses from the sideline and going through progressions in his head to keep his mind sharp. But taking those first actual snaps- even in a meaningless preseason game- would be, for a player who hasn’t faced guys in different colored uniforms in 300-plus days, anything but meaningless.

“I think we’d all like that,” McCarthy admitted. “It’s just not the priority.”

The priority, of course, is to have the face of the franchise at full strength and speed for when the games actually count. The Cowboys hope they don’t need Prescott to sling it 50 times per game- his average over the first four full games last season- but McCarthy knows if they push it too hard now, Prescott could be right back to no throws at all when it suddenly matters.

“We’re just trying to get his volume back to where it belongs.”

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Texas WR Joshua Moore not practicing due to shoulder injury

Joshua Moore did not participate in Wednesday’s practice due to a shoulder injury. According to Texas, the wide receiver is listed as day-to-day.

The injury bug has been nice to Texas early on in fall camp. No significant injuries have occurred, keeping Steve Sarkisian’s squad fresh before the season opener against Louisiana.

However, one of the Longhorns’ projected top offensive players will be missing some practice time.

Joshua Moore did not participate in Wednesday’s practice due to a shoulder injury. According to Texas, the wide receiver is listed as day-to-day, hoping to get back on the field as soon as possible.

Dealing with injuries is nothing new for Moore. He suffered a knee injury against TCU last season and then a shoulder injury against Oklahoma State. Despite the setbacks, Moore was able to have a solid season on paper.

Being the leading receiver last season, Moore hauled in 30 receptions for 472 yards and nine touchdowns. If the 2021 season were to start today, he is expected to be one of the starters.

Being able to gain weight has been a big part of Moore’s offseason, now weighing in at 176 pounds.

“I’ve always been the smallest player on the field my whole life,” said Moore. “It’s just about your heart in my opinion.”

After playing last season 12 pounds lighter, Moore is ready to play in Sarkisian’s offense. He knows how well the head coach can scheme wide receivers into good positions.

“What makes [Sarkisian’s offense] so unique, every receiver that runs a route, no matter what defense they play, somebody will be open.”

Once the shoulder is healthy, Moore should be back on the practice field with the first team. Working with both Casey Thompson and Hudson Card every day, he should be a major factor in helping Texas decide the starting spot. However, he credits the quarterbacks for early camp success.

“Both of them sling the rock,” Moore said. “They make us look good. It’s not that we make them look good. If you come to practice, you’ll see for yourself. They’re putting it right where it needs to be, and it’s a strong battle right now.”

With Texas’ scrimmage scheduled for Saturday, Moore’s status will be one of the things to keep an eye out for.

McCarthy says Cowboys have ‘taken a step back’ from their accelerated Prescott return plan

After returning to practice the day after an MRI revealed an injury, Prescott will not resume throwing this week as the team prepares for their opening preseason tilt.

The initial report from Oxnard when Dak Prescott left training camp practice last week was that a shoulder strain was going to keep him out of practice for a couple weeks, out of sheer precaution not to aggravate things. Yet, the following day, Prescott was out participating in practice in full pads. He wasn’t throwing, but he was going through team drills, handing the ball off to teammates and going through the motions, just not the passing motion. The Cowboys coaching staff voiced thoughts he would be back throwing in just a few days.

Now comes word Dallas has reverted to the original timeline it seems, that Prescott won’t resume throwing this week. From Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News:

The Cowboys are scheduled to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Hall of Fame exhibition contest on Thursday. Garrett Gilbert, who started against the Steelers and almost ended their undefeated campaign in Week 9 last season, will likely get the lion’s share of first-team work in the preseason opener.

Dallas also has second-year player Ben DiNucci and veteran backup Cooper Rush on the depth chart at the position.

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Prescott to miss few weeks of Cowboys camp with shoulder injury

The Cowboys QB is down again, what will the time before his return tell us about the regular season and who might the team look to bringing in if reinforcements are necessary. | From @KDDrummondNFL

For any fans who had concerns over the Dallas Cowboys backup situation in 2021, they’re about to get a glimpse of what that life could be like. After a week’s worth of training camp practices, the Cowboys have lost their starting quarterback Dak Prescott to a shoulder injury, per multiple reports.

As first reported by the Dallas Morning News, Prescott suffered a muscle strain that kept him out of the majority of Wednesday’s practice, the team’s first in pads of the new season. After having an MRI, it’s been concluded the team will take things slow, though they continue to insist it’s not a serious injury.

Prescott is expected to miss the next two weeks which will keep him out of the team’s first exhibition game, next Thursday against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the Hall of Fame induction weekend. He likely could miss the second week, a road exhibition against he Arizona Cardinals. Dallas will then return to Texas to complete their preparation for the regular season, with two more preseason tilts against Houston and Jacksonville.

Prescott missed the majority of 2020 with an ankle injury that required surgery. Although the club wasn’t playing near their ability through those first five weeks, their offense fell off a cliff without him when Andy Dalton, Garrett Gilbert and Ben DiNucci started in his place. Dalton has since signed with Chicago leaving Gilber and DiNucci, along with Cooper Rush, as Prescott’s backups.

This is a major concern for plenty of fans and now the offense will work for two weeks without their field general. Dallas is currently without both WR Amari Cooper and DE DeMarcus Lawrence, recovering from offseason surgeries. Both are expected to begin practicing when the club returns to Dallas.

The offense still has plenty of weapons at their disposal, including Ezekiel Elliott, CeeDee Lamb, Michael Gallup and the dual-TE threats of Dalton Schultz and Blake Jarwin. They are more than enough to give the club a true evaluation of both backups to know whether or not the team needs to pursue a more veteran solution to protect in case Prescott misses any time during the regular season.

It’s a very thin heard that is headlined by names such as Robert Griffin III, Brent Hundley and Ryan Finley.

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Texas Football: Defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat will undergo shoulder surgery

Chip Brown of Horns247 reported that defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat is expected to undergo shoulder surgery this offseason.

Sophomore defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat suffered an undisclosed shoulder injury during the Valero Alamo Bowl against Colorado. Continue reading “Texas Football: Defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat will undergo shoulder surgery”

Carlos Hyde will practice but will be wait and see for Week 5 matchup

Seattle Seahawks running back Carlos Hyde will practice ahead of the Minnesota Vikings game but will be wait and see for the Week 5 matchup.

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The Seattle Seahawks were relieved to have their starting running back, Chris Carson, on the field Week 4 to assist in the team’s win over the Miami Dolphins. Seattle was without backup Carlos Hyde, however, who was inactive Sunday due to a shoulder injury despite participating throughout the week.

“Carlos was able to practice all of last week because we had him in red shirt so he wouldn’t get banged on the shoulder,” coach Pete Carroll told reporters during his press conference on Monday. “So he looked fine all week long, but it got to the weekend, it just wasn’t feeling strong enough to go ahead and go.”

Carroll could not confirm whether or not Hyde would be ready to face the Vikings Sunday night, instead, plans to wait and see until the end of the week.

“We’ll just go at it again this week and take the same approach,” Carroll said. “He’ll be able to practice this week, which is great. He’s not going to lose a step or anything, but we’ll have to wait and see. That could be one of those ones that if we just wait one more week, then we get the whole other bonus week in there, we’ll have to see.”

The Seahawks have a bye following the Minnesota matchup, giving everyone some extra time to recover before Seattle enters the second half of its season.

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Rasheem Green only Seahawk to suffer minor injury in Sunday’s win

Defensive end Rasheem Green was the only Seahawk to suffer a minor injury in Seattle’s win Sunday over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 1.

The Seattle Seahawks emerged from their Week-1 win over the Atlanta Falcons relatively unscathed, with only one injury to report on Monday.

“Really, guys with just some bumps and bruises from the game for the most part,” coach Pete Carroll said during his afternoon press conference.

Defensive end Rasheem Green, however, who left the matchup in the first quarter with a shoulder injury, is still feeling some soreness the following day.

“Rasheem Green, he did get some kind of a pinch,” Carroll said. “So we’ll have to see how that goes through the week here. There are still some effects so we’ll see what that means for the game this week.”

Green was able to resume play in Atlanta despite being designated as questionable to return.

All in all, the rest of the squad remains fairly healthy and will report back to practice on Wednesday morning to prepare to face the Patriots Sunday night.

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Guard Isaiah Hookfin out two to three weeks with shoulder injury

According to Rivals, guard Isaiah Hookfin will be out for two to three weeks. The redshirt freshmen suffered a shoulder injury in practice.

According to Anwar Richardson of OrangeBloods.com, guard Isaiah Hookfin will be out for two to three weeks. The redshirt freshmen suffered a shoulder injury in practice this week.

If Hookfin does miss the maximum timeline of three weeks, the guard would miss the season opener against UTEP. The Longhorns are scheduled to host the Miners on Sept. 12.

However, Brian Davis of the Austin States-American is reporting Hookfin will be ready to go for the opener.

Hookfin is going into his second year with the program. He sat out all of last year, taking a redshirt year. Now, Hookfin is projected to be the starting right guard against UTEP.

Redshirt sophomore Willie Tyler was supposed to start, however, he opted out of the 2020 season on Aug. 19.

With Derek Kerstetter moving from right tackle to center, the interior offensive line will consist of Junior Angilau, Kerstetter, and Hookfin. All three will be playing their respective positions for the first time in college.

Texas’ offensive line is expected to be a strength this season, even with injuries. Protecting quarterback Sam Ehlinger and giving him time to make plays is what makes the Texas offense work.

Just over two weeks from the UTEP game, the Longhorns will be working to remain healthy. A couple of weeks off the practice field will make sure Hookfin is ready to go on Sept. 12.

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Carlos Hyde’s rehab is on track, expects to be healthy for Week 1

Seattle Seahawks running back Carlos Hyde played through a shoulder injury last year, but he expects to be healthy for Week 1 in 2020.

The Seattle Seahawks have dealt with their fair share of injuries in the running back room in the last year. While Chris Carson (hip) is expected to be a full-go when training camp begins, the same cannot be said for Rashaad Penny (knee), who looks in danger of beginning the season on the PUP list.

That lack of depth showed up in a big way toward the end of last season, and is a big reason the team went ahead and signed veteran Carlos Hyde to an incentive-laden, one-year deal this offseason.

Hyde is coming off a very strong year in Houston, where he ran for a career-high 1,070 yards with the Texans. Most of those yards came while Hyde was nursing a torn labrum, one that he eventually had surgery on this offseason.

Hyde is rehabbing in Houston and told Seattle media members on Monday that rehab is going well, and he expects to be fully healthy for the start of the 2020 season.

“(COVID-19) hasn’t really stopped my rehab at all,” Hyde said. “I think I’m on time to participate when we get to (training) camp and everything, and by Week 1 I’m pretty sure I’ll be ready to go. I feel good. I feel like my shoulder has gotten a lot stronger than what it was feeling like before I got surgery. Things are definitely going in the right direction.”

Hyde suffered the injury in Week 2 of the 2019 season, but instead of missing any games he wrapped the shoulder up before the game and told himself if he, “ran hard enough, then nobody could hurt my shoulder.”

Hyde expects to compete for the No. 2 running back role, a job he will likely have if Penny is forced to miss time in 2020.

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10 games that defined Emmitt Smith’s Cowboys career, on his birthday

In honor of the all-time rushing champ’s birthday, we take a look back at 10 games that defined Emmitt Smith’s Hall of Fame career.

Emmitt Smith celebrates his 51st birthday on Friday. Born in Pensacola, Florida, the son of Mary J. Smith and Emmitt James Smith Jr. attended Escambia High School. A prolific runner from an early age, Smith won a state football championship there before accepting a scholarship to the University of Florida. He played three years for the Gators and finished seventh for the Heisman Trophy as a junior before declaring for the 1990 NFL Draft and joining the Dallas Cowboys.

His record-setting career coincides with one of the most integral chapters in the franchise’s rich history, and Smith, in turn, is one of the club’s most decorated icons and beloved stars.

To commemorate Emmitt’s big day, Cowboys Wire has selected the ten games of Smith’s tenure with the team that best tell the story of No. 22.

1. October 7, 1990: Emmitt’s first 100-yard game

Emmitt Smith’s career as a Cowboy got a little stuck coming out of the gate. In Week 1 of 1990, the rookie logged exactly two yards on two carries in a home win over the San Diego Chargers. A week later, 11 yards on six attempts. Smith’s frustration on the sidelines was evident.

But then again, the Cowboys hadn’t even really wanted Smith to begin with. In April’s draft, Dallas had been eyeing Baylor linebacker James Francis. The Bengals got him instead. Their Plan B was Houston linebacker Lamar Lathon. The front office tried to do a deal with the Oilers to move up for him, but Houston declined… and took Lathon for themselves. The Cowboys settled for the running back from Florida they thought was too small and too slow to truly be an effective pro rusher.

But Smith knew he’d be a superstar; the famed to-do list he once wrote announcing his goal of eventually being the all-time rushing champ was proof. And one by one, he was convincing his new Dallas teammates, too.

Offensive guard Crawford Ker had been Smith’s roommate in the early days.

“I told everyone that I was sharing a room with the man who would make Cowboy fans forget about Tony Dorsett,” Ker once said. “Emmitt just wanted a chance to play and show what he could do.”

Dec 30, 1990; Atlanta, GA, USA; FILE PHOTO; Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith (22) carries the ball against the Atlanta Falcons at Fulton County Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Manny Rubio-USA TODAY Sports

That chance came in Week 5 against Tampa Bay. Finally getting a clear-cut lion’s share of the carries over Tommie Agee and Alonzo Highsmith, Smith was a one-man wrecking ball. He rolled up 121 yards on 23 attempts, and while the tape of his first pro touchdown shows quintessential Emmitt, it’s a 16-yard run with three minutes left in regulation that’s worth finding on YouTube. A mix of quick jukes, off-balance jump cuts, and pure power once he hits his stride, it’s the run that gave Smith his first 100-yard outing… and gave the rest of the league a taste of what was to come.

The Cowboys’ 14-10 win that day kickstarted Smith’s rookie campaign in earnest, a season that ended with a Pro Bowl nod and Offensive Rookie of the Year honors.

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