Dez Bryant’s Foot Is In Worse Shape Than Anyone Previously Thought

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The Dallas Cowboys have nothing left to play for in their final game in the season except draft position, so it makes sense that they’d shut down star wide receiver Dez Bryant ahead of their Week 17 tilt against Washington. However, when they placed Dez Bryant on IR on Wednesday, it was for a far more upsetting reason than simple rest: He needs more surgery on his injured right foot and ankle.

When Dez only missed five games with a Jones fracture to his foot (the same injury that derailed Kevin Durant’s 2014-15 season and helped prematurely end Yao Ming’s career), some thought he might have rushed back to help out a floundering team that was still fighting for playoff contention. Though head coach Jason Garrett insists it isn’t the case, and second surgeries for Jones fractures are fairly common, the revelation that the foot “continued to bother him” for six weeks raises warning flags for a star just one year into a five-year extension he signed this offseason.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram speculates that the new surgery will likely keep Dez out for much of the Cowboys’ offseason activities, which is never a good thing. Dez is as tough as they come, but recurring foot injuries are some of the most career-altering maladies a player can have. Hopefully, after these new surgeries, he takes all the time he needs to get fully healed before coming back to the field. He’s too valuable long-term for the Cowboys to get cute over a game or two.

(Via Star-Telegram)

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