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Nothing has kept Amari Cooper out of the lineup this season, so why would his latest injury? The Cowboys receiver has a left knee contusion to go with his lingering ankle injury. He had an MRI on Wednesday and missed practice Thursday. He expects to practice Friday and play Sunday night...

Getty Images The Cowboys returned to work with a glorified walk-through Wednesday after playing Monday night. Starting weakside linebacker Leighton Vander Esch, who missed the first game of his career Sunday with a neck injury, returned to a limited practice. His replacement Sunday, Sean Lee...

Getty Images No matter how much the Vikings try to downplay it, it’s clear that receiver Adam Thielen‘s hamstring injury remains a problem. Thielen missed practice on Wednesday, three days after attempting to return from the muscle injury suffered two weeks earlier. Coach Mike Zimmer insisted...

Getty Images Ezekiel Elliott led the league in rushing in two of his first three seasons. He led the league in yards per game all three seasons. His 92.6 yards per game average this season ranks fourth, and his 741 rushing yards is sixth. The Cowboys made him the league’s highest-paid running...

Getty Images Dez Bryant hasn’t played since Dec. 31, 2017. He still wants to play, which doesn’t mean the former Pro Bowler will get the chance. The former Cowboys receiver has continued to workout, periodically posting videos of his training. He posted on social media Wednesday night that he...

Getty Images As it turns out, Xavier Woods had more to do with it than the black cat. The Cowboys safety was named NFC defensive player of the week, for his big plays in Dallas’ comeback win over the Giants Monday. Woods had an interception of Daniel Jones, and forced a fumble. The...

Getty Images Two weeks after Vikings receiver Adam Thielen suffered a hamstring injury, he returned. And he didn’t last long. Thielen exited Sunday’s game against the Chiefs after aggravating the injury, and he didn’t return. His status for Sunday night at Dallas remains up in the air. At a...

Getty Images Cowboys defensive lineman Daniel Ross won’t play this season after being placed on injured reserve in August because of a shoulder injury and any future availability may be impacted by a suspension. Ross was arrested on Wednesday morning in Frisco, Texas. The Frisco police...

Getty Images The notion of a potential Chargers move to London has been shot down even faster than it took off. Apart from a hilariously profane quote from Chargers owner Dean Spanos rejecting the report from TheAthletic.com flagging L.A. No. 2 team as a possible No. 1 team in London, Cowboys...

Getty Images Defensive lineman Michael Bennett began his first game as a Cowboy by standing on the sideline for the national anthem for the first time since 2016. Bennett had been staying in the locker room during the playing of the anthem, but Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he’d spoken to...

Getty Images Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the first college football game. Yesterday the NFL paid tribute to it, although you had to be looking very closely at your TV to notice. The NFL had players in Monday night’s Cowboys-Giants game wear the decals of their college teams on the...

For the second time in less than a month, the Giants played in prime time. For the second time in less than a month, the Giants trailed by two scores with less than half of the fourth quarter remaining. For the second time in less than a month, the Giants faced fourth down when trailing by two...

The cat that crashed the party on Monday night has made an appeaarance in the official NFL account of Monday night’s Cowboys-Giants game. Here’s the specific entry from the National Football League Game Summary, as Peter King pointed out after we wrapped Tuesday’s edition of PFT Live: “The game...

Getty Images The Cowboys were far from perfect Monday night. But they were good enough to walk away confidently, swaggering even. While the 37-18 win over the Giants might not be indicative of the rest of the season, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott believes that their late domination shows...

Getty Images Wide receiver Adam Thielen was inactive in Week Eight because of a hamstring injury, but he was in the Vikings lineup at the start of Sunday’s game against the Chiefs. He didn’t stay in the lineup for long. Thielen played seven snaps and had one pass thrown in his direction before...

Getty Images The Giants expected to get wide receiver Sterling Shepard back in the lineup against the Cowboys on Monday night, but that’s not going to happen. Shepard was cleared from the concussion protocol on Friday, but the Giants announced on Sunday that he is back in the protocol and will...

Getty Images The Cowboys list linebacker Leighton Vander Esch as questionable with a neck injury that took him out of the Oct. 20 game against the Eagles after only 22 defensive plays. But Vander Esch continues to have soreness and range of motion issues, and the Cowboys aren’t expecting him...

Getty Images Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Friday that the team’s contract talks with quarterback Dak Prescott moved in “a positive direction” this week, but it doesn’t look like there will be any similar updates regarding wide receiver Amari Cooper in the near future. Cooper said on...

Getty Images Jason Witten returned to the Cowboys this season after spending last season in the TV booth on ESPN. He plays on Monday Night Football this week, so it seems a natural that ESPN would want its former employee wearing a microphone. “No. No,” Witten said Friday, via Schuyler Dixon...

The Cowboys don’t have many players on their roster who have played in a Super Bowl. Michael Bennett has played in two, winning one. That’s what appealed to Cowboys defensive passing game coordinator Kris Richard. “He understands excellence,” Richard said, via David Helman of the team website...