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 wanting up at each the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders within the division, and their playoff hopes are slipping away from them.
The newest bit of reports? Dallas is likely to be 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 most recent experiences point out that the quarterback would possibly endure season-ending surgical procedure. In accordance with ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Prescott is coping with {a partially} torn hamstring, and Cowboys docs and trainers consider the quarterback wants surgical procedure to restore the damage.
Schefter additionally experiences that Prescott is touring to New York to satisfy with a specialist on Monday for an additional 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 operating,” Prescott added. “The sort out, perhaps one thing on the sort out. Yeah, I don’t know. However once I was standing up, I felt one thing, truly. Didn’t suppose it was a lot. You get drained. It’s a bodily recreation. Numerous occasions you are feeling various things they usually type 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 towards each the Eagles and the Commanders, that means the division continues to be a risk.
Nonetheless, it appears unlikely Prescott shall be within the lineup for them throughout these video games.