Tony Romo
As if the season couldn’t have got worse for the Dallas Cowboys, now their quarterback is pretty much done for the rest of the year.
Tony Romo was injured in the second quarter of tonight’s Cowboys/Giants Monday Night Football game and will probably miss 8-10 weeks with a broken collarbone, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The injury is officially being labeled as a fractured left clavicle, but that’s just a more complicated term for collarbone.
Romo was injured when an unblocked defender broke through the ‘Boys offensive line and slammed him to the turf.
While an official announcement on Romo’s injury and recovery time won’t be made until tomorrow, Dallas won’t have him under center until Week 12 or 13, and that’s being extremely optimistic.
If the timetable does turn out to be 8-10 weeks, then the Cowboys would be smart to just put him on injured reserve, especially if they fall to 1-5 tonight.
Jon Kitna will take over as the team’s starting quarterback. Obviously, this does nothing but lowers the value of their receivers – Miles Austin, Dez Bryant, Roy Williams – but helps Felix Jones and Marion Barber as the team will be running the ball a lot more now.
UPDATE (10/26, 1:40 AM): Per owner Jerry Jones, the initial expectations are that Romo will be out 6-8 weeks. Initial’s the word to note here. I’m still going with 8-10 weeks since, as Schefter noted, that’s the usual recovery time for these collarbone injuries. There’s a chance the team could place Romo on IR, too. It all depends if Jones thinks the season is worth bringing him back for. One way or another, we’ll know something official within the next two or three weeks.
UPDATE (10/26, 2:00 PM): All signs are pointing toward Romo missing eight weeks of action. A CT scan confirmed the injury, which won’t need surgery to repair. Eight weeks would put him on track to return for the team’s Christmas night matchup against the Cardinals.
