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Cowboys CB Stephon Gilmore to have shoulder surgery before free agency

From @ToddBrock24f7: The veteran was set to wear a shoulder harness for the duration of the Cowboys’ playoff run. He’ll have his torn labrum repaired this week.

Cowboys cornerback Stephon Gilmore was an immediate difference-maker in his first year with the Cowboys, becoming one of the leaders on defense after Trevon Diggs was lost to an early-season ACL injury.

Now a late-season injury of his own will send him to the operating room as he wonders if he’ll be wearing the star again in 2024.

Gilmore is set to undergo surgery for a torn labrum that he suffered in the regular-season finale versus Washington, according to a report from Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. The 12-year veteran wore a shoulder harness in Sunday’s wild-card loss to Green Bay and played every one of the team’s defensive snaps. He was prepared to wear the harness for the duration of the Cowboys’ postseason run, delaying surgery until the offseason.

But now the offseason is here. Surgery is expected to come this week.

“I tried to give it all I’ve got,” Gilmore, 33, said after the playoff defeat. “I still felt like I could play. Tried to give it a go. Got to take advantage of these opportunities.”

What opportunity might come next for Gilmore is very much up in the air.

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A former top-ten draft pick of Buffalo in 2012, Gilmore was traded to Dallas by the Colts last spring exchange for a fifth-round 2023 pick. He is set to become a free agent in March.

Fellow Cowboys cornerback Jourdan Lewis is also scheduled to hit free agency this offseason, while Diggs and second-year man DaRon Bland are set to return to the club.

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Dak Prescott gives offseason status report on shoulder, reflects on ‘hardest part of the league’

The Cowboys QB says his non-throwing shoulder feels fine after cleanup surgery, and he’s excited to watch WR CeeDee Lamb take over as WR1. | From @ToddBrock24f7

It’s the time of year when players across the league are getting big fat checks for their efforts. Dak Prescott got one on Monday; his was made of cardboard.

The Cowboys quarterback made an appearance in Las Colinas at a branch of Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux, the restaurant chain he co-owns. He was there to celebrate the location’s re-opening after COVID-19 forced it to close for a while. He was surprised with a $20,000 donation for his Faith, Fight, Finish Foundation during the event, but also addressed what has been a busy offseason for both the team and the 28-year-old passer.

Of primary importance for the assembled media was Prescott’s shoulder. He had cleanup surgery on his left (non-throwing) shoulder shortly after the team’s postseason ouster, as revealed by head coach Mike McCarthy at the NFL scouting combine last month. But Prescott assured everyone that he is on track with his rehab.

“It’s great, I can do everything with it,” Prescott explained per the Dallas Morning News, even pumping his arm jokingly for effect. “I’m fine.”

Prescott skipped the Pro Bowl to get started on an offseason’s worth of relaxing and prep work following his lengthy 2020 recovery from an ankle dislocation and compound fracture. A strained throwing shoulder and calf strain followed. Now he’s on the comeback trail once again, but making good progress and is not expected to miss any offseason work.

“I’m right there. Obviously, I didn’t get to throw quite as quickly as I wanted to, dealing with this,” Prescott said. “But where I am, I’m [rehabbing it] a couple of times a week, and I will increase that as time goes forward.”

Time has moved on for several of Prescott’s teammates, too: most notably, wideout targets Amari Cooper and Cedrick Wilson, as well as offensive lineman La’el Collins. Cooper and Wilson were frequent visitors to Prescott’s backyard field for informal practice sessions; Collins was one of Prescott’s closest locker room friends.

Now all three are ex-Cowboys.

“This is the hardest part of the league to me,” Prescott said, “just watching teammates and friends, watching men who you have grown up with the past few years on the field and off the field leave, depart, and just understand that’s the business of this game. Sharing words with both of those guys and how much they’ve impacted my career, how much they mean to me as people as players, and I’m excited for them.”

With that roster churn will come new faces. While fans have been impatient with the front office’s lack of splashy veteran signings in free agency, Prescott knows there’s more than one way to build a team, and a long time in which the Cowboys can still do it.

“Things are not done. Free agency isn’t done,” Prescott said. “The draft is not done. A lot of the roster is to come. I handle the things that I can control. Handle the guys that are in the locker room, making sure we are growing and starting our brotherhood and our culture. Just progressing to get where we want to be.”

Prescott has already turned the page mentally to having a new WR1 in the huddle with him. CeeDee Lamb is now set to be the undisputed top target in the Cowboys’ passing attack, and Prescott is confident that the third-year receiver is ready to ascend to the throne.

“Yeah, there is no doubt he is,” Prescott said. “You look at a guy like CeeDee and what he’s done in his first two years, and it’s exciting just to know it’s only the beginning, and he hasn’t even scratched the surface. For him to be the one, to be the main guy, I know he’s going to be ready for it.”

And Prescott maintains he’ll be ready, too, earning his paychecks of the real variety, just as soon as offseason workouts begin.

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Prescott recovering from offseason shoulder surgery

Speaking at the NFL combine, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said he has no concerns about his QB being fully ready for the 2022 season. | From @ToddBrock24f7

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was like a walking MASH unit last season. Coming off his catastrophic ankle dislocation in October 2020, he then strained his throwing shoulder in training camp- causing him to be shut down for the entire preseason- and then suffered a calf injury six weeks into the 2021 campaign that forced him to miss a game.

Now it’s been revealed that he also had an issue with his non-throwing shoulder, and it was bad enough that he had cleanup surgery on it after the Cowboys were ousted from the postseason.

McCarthy took to the podium at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday, speaking to reporters for the first time since the team’s playoff loss to San Francisco on January 19.

He told assembled media members that Prescott was one of several Cowboys players to undergo an offseason procedure.

 

The coach’s expectation is that Prescott will be fully ready for the start of the Cowboys’ offseason program.

“It’s not a concern,” McCarthy said. “We have no concern. He’s doing well.”

Prescott skipped an invitation to the Pro Bowl in early February, ostensibly to get a head start on some much-needed rest after so much rehab over the previous 15 months or so. It now appears he’s right back on the recovery trail again.

McCarthy, entering his third year at the helm in Dallas, reportedly earmarked two things as offseason priorities. The first is to clean up gameday penalties; the Cowboys led the league with 168 total flags (and 141 accepted) in 2021.

The second priority for the Cowboys? Being better at handling diversity.

Goodness knows there’s already been plenty of that in Dallas in the six weeks since they last walked off the field. From the still-controversial final play of the wild-card round loss to the swirl of rumors surrounding McCarthy’s coaching staff and his own job status to the voyeurism scandal implicating longtime team exec Rich Dalrymple to a looming free agency period that will undoubtedly force the front office to make some unpopular decisions based on dollars and cents, the nonstop soap opera that is America’s Team chugs right along.

Nothing like a surprise surgery to the team’s most important player to shift the focus away… and yet keep the spotlight squarely on the big blue star.

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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”

Report: Texans ILB Benardrick McKinney undergoing shoulder surgery

Houston Texans inside linebacker Benardrick McKinney is undergoing shoulder surgery, according to a report from the Houston Chronicle’s Aaron Wilson.

Houston Texans inside linebacker Benardrick McKinney is undergoing shoulder surgery Friday.

The Texans placed McKinney on injured reserve earlier this week, and the expectation is his season will be over, making 2020 the first time in the Pro Bowler’s career he has not played at least 14 games for the Texans, who drafted him in the second round of the 2015 NFL Draft.

Defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver says it will take a team effort to replace the talent lost with McKinney on injured reserve.

“When you lose a guy like Benardrick McKinney, you need all 11 guys on that field to step up and make up for his loss,” Weaver said. “Just leadership, football IQ, knowledge out there, and I think our guys will do that. Obviously, you hate to lose a guy like B-Mac. Love him dearly. He is a war daddy out there for us. When you lose a guy like him, like I said, you need all 11 guys to step their game up.”

The Texans take on the Tennessee Titans in Week 6. Inside linebacker Tyrell Adams played 67 snaps for Houston in Week 5, McKinney’s first game of the season missed.

Seahawks LB K.J. Wright makes ‘marvelous return’ from shoulder surgery

Seattle Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright made a ‘marvelous return’ from shoulder surgery and will not start training camp on the PUP list.

The Seattle Seahawks saw the healthy return of one of their starting linebackers at Wednesday’s practice. K. J. Wright, who underwent shoulder surgery during the offseason, was on the field with his teammates.

“It’s a marvelous return,” coach Pete Carroll said during his virtual press conference after the session. “He’s raring to go. We anticipated that he could quite likely go on PUP (Physically Unable to Perform list), he cleared his physical with flying colors. We’ll still look after him and take care of him, but he’s in great shape.”

The Seahawks have yet to have a fully-padded practice and Wright could likely be limited in contact drills to start.

But with no preseason games and the regular-season opener still over a month away, Wright will hopefully have enough time to fully recover ahead of his 2020 campaign.

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Texas ex LaMarcus Aldridge undergoes surgery, season over

When the 2019-20 NBA season resumes on July 31, the San Antonio Spurs will be without one of their top players.

When the 2019-20 NBA season resumes in late July, the San Antonio Spurs will be without one of their top players. Continue reading “Texas ex LaMarcus Aldridge undergoes surgery, season over”

Seahawks near bottom at No. 29 in 2020 NFL draft class rankings

The Seattle Seahawks have landed near the bottom at No. 29 in NFL.com’s draft class rankings after the 2020 NFL Draft.

It’s tough to find a media outlet that has graded the Seattle Seahawks any higher than an average C for their haul in the 2020 NFL Draft.

Seattle added eight new players to the roster, but the selection of linebacker Jordyn Brooks out of Texas Tech in the first round left many analysts puzzled. Now with the news of starter K.J. Wright’s offseason shoulder surgery and timeline for return uncertain, things are beginning to make a bit more sense.

Still, Gennaro Filice of NFL.com lists the Seahawks near the bottom of his rankings of this year’s draft classes.

“The notion of spending a first-round pick on a downhill thumper – without established coverage skills – seems like a questionable use of draft resources in 2020,” Filice writes. “Especially when off-ball linebacker wasn’t an immediate need for this annually contending team.”

“On Day 2, Pete Carroll and John Schneider looked to infuse both lines with some much-needed talent,” Filice continues. “Taylor brings the length and strength Seattle desires off the edges. The only problem is he remains unrefined as a playmaker/finisher despite five years of service in the SEC.”

It’s obviously too early to tell how any of Seattle’s picks will pan out this season, hoping of course, there is football at to be played in the near future.

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John Schneider considered Jordyn Brooks to be best fit among linebackers

Seahawks general manager John Schneider considered Jordyn Brooks to be the best fit for the team among linebackers in the 2020 NFL Draft.

The Seattle Seahawks selected Texas Tech linebacker Jordyn Brooks with the No. 27 overall selection in the 2020 NFL Draft, and that move came as a bit of a surprise to some. General manager John Schneider joined 710 ESPN Seattle and explained the process of drafting Brooks.

“We had a pretty strong feeling that the three linebackers might be of the group (of) the position that may fall and the receivers all started flying off, which we all thought may happen as it was a very strong receiver class at the top,” Schneider said.

The linebackers Schneider mentioned were Kenneth Murray, Patrick Queen, and Brooks. He said he perceived the latter to be the best fit for the Seahawks defense, and his colleagues seemed to agree.

“It was a decision of if one of those linebackers is still there, we’re not going to back out and with Jordyn, everybody had so much conviction,” Schneider said. “There were three linebackers there and all three are incredible players. Jordyn was the guy that fit us best and we had the most buy-in from everybody, so we were extremely excited to get him.”

Schneider was also impressed by Brooks’ speed and resilience, as evidenced by his 40-yard dash time and his preparation for the draft in spite of a lingering injury.

“He ran 4.46 at the combine after working out for like a week (due to a shoulder injury) to get ready for it, so we were really excited about him,” Schneider said.

Time will tell if Brooks will pan out, but it looks like the Seahawks have a very promising prospect on their hands, especially considering the news starting linebacker K.J. Wright is currently battling from offseason shoulder surgery.

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Seahawks linebacker K.J. Wright underwent shoulder surgery

Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider confirmed starting linebacker K.J. Wright has undergone shoulder surgery this offseason.

The Seattle Seahawks’ selection of Texas Tech linebacker Jordyn Brooks is starting to make more and more sense. On Monday, Seahawks general manager John Schneider confirmed veteran linebacker K. J. Wright had undergone shoulder surgery during the offseason and his return for the start of the year is uncertain.

“He’s rehabbing from his surgery,” Schneider told 950 KJR’s Softy and Dick show. “I’m not sure of the timeline of when he’s going to be back. Hopefully he makes it back on time and we’ll see how it goes. It’s a weird offseason for everybody but especially for guys that have had offseason surgery.

“Hopefully his name’s up there on the wall someday, right? He’s an amazing person, an amazing player. That’s why we did our deal with him last year.”

Schneider didn’t provide details about Wright’s procedure or when and if he’d be available should the season start on time this year.

Hopefully, an update on Wright’s status will emerge in the near future.

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