Before the Cowboys went on their bye week, there was discussion about wide receiver Dez Bryant returning to the lineup against the Giants in Week Seven.
That game is now less than a week away and this week’s practices will provide the answer to whether or not Bryant is ready to play after breaking a bone in his foot against the Giants in the season opener. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said the team will gauge Bryant’s work in practice on Wednesday and Thursday before making the call
“It totally depends on how he’s doing,” Jones said on “Shan and RJ” on 105.3 The Fan, via the Dallas Morning News. “He had a good end of the week last week. He got in some really good work. He didn’t have much negative response from that work. It was strenuous work, the kind that if he can step out here and have a couple of really good days of practice then you could see him go. ... Everybody will get a feel for it, but more importantly, he’ll get a feel for it. He’s the key. He’ll have to decide, does he push off on it? This is strictly, ‘Do you feel comfortable making your cuts? If you do, then it’s on go. If not, then we’ll wait a week.’”
Bryant had a therapeutic stem-cell injection in his foot a couple of weeks ago in hopes of speeding up recovery and did conditioning work on the field before the Cowboys broke for the bye, a sequence that supports hope that he’ll be able to play sooner rather than later. We should have a better idea of how much sooner in a couple of days.
