Quarterback Dak Prescott fractured the thumb in his throwing hand in the Cowboys’ season-opening loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, nevertheless Dallas is 4-1...
Prescott fractured his thumb
during the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ 19-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 11. The injury occurred when Prescott’s hand hit Bucs linebacker Shaq Barrett while following through on a pass attempt. “I’ve hit my hand on helmets, on players. I thought I had jammed it,’’ Prescott said after the Bucs game. “I thought if they popped it back in, it would be fine. But now I’ve gotta go see the doctor in the morning and get some surgery.’’Prescott consulted with a hand specialist the following Monday and later that day underwent surgery, which revealed he
to his right thumb. That’s a fracture that occurs above the wrist joint and doesn’t extend into the joint itself. This type of fracture typically has a four- to six-week recovery.That’s the thing. The Prescott saga has included a variety of return timetables. The initial worry, before surgery, was that Prescott was going to miss six to eight weeks and the Cowboys would have completed half the season without their offensive leader.
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