Dallas Cowboys lose another key offensive starter to ankle injury for 4-6 weeks
The hits just keep on coming for the Dallas Cowboys.
Just hours after news circulated that wide receiver CeeDee Lamb will miss multiple weeks with a high ankle sprain, the latest starter to learn a similar fate is rookie right guard Tyler Booker, who is expected to miss 4-6 weeks with a high ankle sprain of his own.
Booker, who was the team’s first-round pick in April, suffered the injury late in the loss against the Chicago Bears on Sunday afternoon, but remained in the game and played all 74 snaps. Further imaging on Monday revealed the injury, as his timeline is expected to see him land on the injured reserve list. The designation would require him to miss at least four games.
Lamb and Booker aren’t the only ones, as starting center Cooper Beebe missed the first of what is expected to be 6-8 weeks due to a lateral ankle sprain and foot fracture he suffered in the win over the New York Giants in week two. With Booker’s injury, the offensive line is now down two starters in the interior.
“We’re early in the season,” owner Jerry Jones said on Monday. “I really would say that we got enough here to get this done. We got enough. We really do. But it is frustrating not just for this game [against the Packers on Sunday], but the fact that you’re looking at potentially [multiple] games. That’s frustrating.”
In Booker’s place, third-year guard T.J. Bass is expected to start. After going undrafted out of Oregon in 2023, Bass has been one of the very few bright spots of the 2023 rookie class, as he has started five games in replacement and has been a serviceable special teams player for the franchise. He will join close friend Brock Hoffman, who is filling in for Beebe, along the Cowboys offensive line for at least the next four weeks.
“I thought one of our strengths this year was offensive line,” Jones said. “And sure thought that way with how we got started out there running the ball. Bottomline is that’s a setback for us.”
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This story was originally published September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM.
