BREAKING NEWS : Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb will ‘miss some time’ with high ankle sprain
Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer announced on Monday that WR CeeDee Lamb will miss some time with a high ankle sprain.
“CeeDee is a guy that heals quickly, and he’ll do everything in his power to get back but it does look like he’ll miss a little bit of time.” Schottenheimer said.
Lamb’s injury occurred in the first quarter of Dallas’ Week 3 loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday, where he lined up as a running back and took a handoff.
As he tried to turn the corner, Lamb was tackled awkwardly and came out of the game. In retrospect, Schottenheimer still had no regrets for using his All-Pro wide receiver out of the back field.
“No, absolutely not,” Schottenheimer said when asked if he second guessed himself for using Lamb as a running back. “I mean, you call passes and runs for people, try to get them the ball and it’s unfortunate, but we’re still going to call quarterback runs with Dak at times. You hate to see it happen, but no second thoughts about it.”
For the second straight week, a Cowboys playmaker has gone down with an injury and caused Schottenheimer and his staff to need to adjust on the fly. It was KaVontae Turpin last week, and now Lamb against the Bears.
In his absence, Dallas’ skill players need to do everything they can to try and make up for him not being on the field.
“Guys have to step up,” Schottenheimer said. “That’s a big part of it. I think we are very fortunate to still have a guy like [George Pickens], you saw [Jalen Tolbert] step up and make some plays, Jake Ferguson had an awesome game, but injuries are unfortunately a big part of this business. It’s hard to replace a guy like CeeDee, but guys got to step up and do that.”