In addition to Romo, the Cowboys also lost backup quarterback Kellen Moore to an injury in the preseason.
Advertisement
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had an interesting explanation for keeping quarterback Tony Romo on the roster.
On Tuesday, the Cowboys settled on a choice regarding his roster status. Jones and the team perhaps think Romo could return before that and thus seem content to deactivate him as game time approaches every week, rather than shut him down in full for eight weeks. The goal is to gauge healing of the fracture and determine a more precise timeline for his recovery.
Jerry Jones went to use a weird analogy regarding Romo on the injured reserve and the circumcision of a mosquito.
There’s been talk about placing Romo on injured reserve, which would prevent the veteran quarterback from practicing before Week 7 or playing in a game before Week 9.
Advertisement
After Romo suffered a compression fracture in his back on August 25 in a preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks, sources said he would need 6-10 weeks to recover. Romo fractured his left clavicle last season and then fractured it again when he returned to the field in November. The Cowboys are weighing whether he could return a week or two before he would be eligible to return from injured reserve. Rookie Dak Prescott will be the starter when the Cowboys face the New York Giants in their National Football League season opener on September 11. “It’s unfortunate for Tony to have some of these things, but the last thing in the world we’re anxious about with Tony is being fragile”.
