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Flournoy

With the Cowboys leaning heavily on their backups in this one, Flournoy led the team in targets and receiving yards. In fact, he was the only player who had more than three targets in this one. That will end a solid season for the 26-year-old, who had 40 catches on 56 targets for 475 yards and four touchdowns. He had a few big games for the Cowboys when CeeDee Lamb was forced to miss time with injuries and figures to be somebody the Cowboys look to retain this offseason. Flournoy will be a restricted free agent, so Dallas’ ability to hold onto him will depend on whether or not any other team falls in love with him in the offseason.

He’ll get some work in with Dak Prescott in the finale. Flournoy has showcased some big play ability and nearly had a two-touchdown game against the Chargers in December before leaving with an injury. He’s a potential WR4/WR5 play this week.

Flournoy is dealing with a knee injury he suffered in Week 16 against the Chargers. He failed to get in a full practice on a short week and is now ruled out, making KaVontae Turpin the Cowboys’ No. 3 wide receiver for the week. The Cowboys also declared LB DeMarvion Overshown, CB Caelen Carson, RB Jaydon Blue, DT Jay Toia, and DT Perrion Winfrey inactive for Week 17 against the Commanders. Overshown is out with a concussion suffered in Week 16.

Flournoy was estimated to be a limited participant for Monday’s walkthrough. The team then listed him as DNP on Tuesday. He remained a DNP today, though it was another walkthrough. We don’t like his odds of suiting up for the Cowboys’ Christmas game against Washington. KaVontae Turpin has been cleared for Week 17 and would take over as the team’s No. 3 receiver if Flournoy can’t go.

Without additional context, this looks bad for Flournoy’s chances of playing on Christmas. He got in a limited session Monday, but this could be a situation where he re-aggravated his knee by pushing it too fast. Or the Cowboys may simply have seen what they wanted to see and wanted to keep him sidelined on Tuesday to rest him. We’ve presented you the narratives and leave you with: It will be interesting to see which narrative will win.

Flournoy drawing a limited designation to start the week is a surprisingly good sign. The second-year receiver was knocked from Week 16’s game against the Chargers and ruled out almost immediately after leaving the field. It’s too early to say if he’ll be good to go for Week 17 against the Commanders, but it looks like he’s on track to log a few practices before Thursday.

Flournoy caught a touchdown on Dallas’ first drive and had another negated by a questionable holding penalty on Dallas’ second, finishing with 2/14/1 in the air. The near-instant ruleout does not bode well for his rest-of-season status, which is a shame as he was making quite a push over the last three weeks.

Flournoy now has two 100-yard performances on his resumé this season. The second-year receiver saw nine of his 13 targets come in the second half with CeeDee Lamb (concussion) sidelined, and was on the receiving end of the only passing touchdown by Cowboys. Flournoy was the beneficiary of a broken coverage by the Lions when safety Brian Branch failed to provide help in the secondary for corner Amik Robertson. The end result was an uncontested 42-yard touchdown to give Flournoy his third receiving touchdown of the season. Flournoy could have some upside as a WR3/WR4 in Week 15 if Lamb were to miss next week’s game, but he can be left on fantasy benches if Lamb is able to play.

His touchdown came in the fourth quarter with the team down 27-10, but it was arguably his catch earlier in the drive that was more worthy of a highlight reel. He managed to hang on through full arm extension in tight coverage and through contact to extend the drive that would ultimately lead to his touchdown. Flournoy isn’t playing enough snaps to warrant weekly fantasy consideration but remains a name to watch should another injury occur to someone ahead of him on the depth chart.

A 35-yard bomb from Joe Milton hit Tolbert square in the hands — a thing of beauty — as the Cowboys were down 27 in the fourth quarter. Tolbert playing at that point tells you all you need to know about how his season is going, as he fell behind Ryan Flournoy with eight snaps to Flournoy’s 28. Neither player is fantasy-interesting with CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens vacuuming up the targets in this offense.