{"id":90273,"date":"2025-09-09T08:41:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=90273"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:41:34","slug":"cowboys-announce-decision-on-dt-who-was-injured-at-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=90273","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Announce Decision on DT Who Was Injured at Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2231574469.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2231574469.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2231574469.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2231574469.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys Announce Decision on DT Who Was Injured at Practice\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Stacy Revere\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys placed defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey (#99) on injured reserve Monday. He will miss a minimum of four weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Perrion Winfrey overcame the odds to make the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 initial 53-man roster, but it may be a while before he sees the field in a game that counts.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey was inactive for last week\u2019s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and will now miss at least the next four weeks after landing on injured reserve Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 fourth-round pick out of Oklahoma, who turned 25 on Aug. 15, has been sidelined since he hurt his back in practice on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<h2>Winfrey Was a Surprising Camp Story<\/h2>\n<p>The 6-foot-4, 290-pound Winfrey signed with the Cowboys in June after earning All-UFL honors in the spring with the Birmingham Stallions. Despite an impressive training camp and preseason, Winfrey headed into cutdown day squarely on the roster bubble.<\/p>\n<p>While Winfrey thought he was getting cut, Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer surprised him with good news. Schottenheimer recalls becoming emotional when telling Winfrey he\u2019d made the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe brought Perrion Winfrey in, and he assumed he was being cut,\u201d Schottenheimer said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cAnd so he walked in and sat down in my office, and (vice president of player personnel) Will McClay was in there. I did play it up a little bit. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe became very emotional, and then I became emotional. I looked over at McClay and he had become emotional. Talk about a guy that\u2019s had this amazing game taken away from him, and you really realize how much these players love this game, what they sacrifice to play this game and what they have to give up and go through \u2014 the pounding it takes on their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Injury Could Complicate Cowboys\u2019 Roster<\/h2>\n<p>Players on IR are required to miss a minimum of four weeks before they can be activated. Once they resume practicing, they have a 21-day window where they can rejoin the active roster. Players who are not activated within that timeframe must be either traded or released.<\/p>\n<p>NFL teams are allowed to bring back up to eight players from IR.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys beefed up the interior of their defensive line in trading for Kenny Clark, a three-time Pro Bowler with the Green Bay Packers, but they could still use more help up front. The Dallas Morning News\u2019 Joseph Hoyt suggested Winfrey\u2019s injury could potentially lead to Mazi Smith returning. The 2023 first-rounder was a healthy inactive in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys allowed 158 rushing yards (4.2 yards per carry) in the 24-20 loss to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<h2>Winfrey Had Off-the-Field Issues Early in His Career<\/h2>\n<p>Winfrey, a former two-time Second Team All-Big 12 honoree, has spent time with two other NFL teams. In 2022 with the Cleveland Browns, he appeared in 13 games as a rookie, recording 22 tackles, one tackle for loss, and half a sack.<\/p>\n<p>The following offseason, Winfrey was released by the Browns after police listed him as a suspect in an aggravated robbery incident. A few months before that, Winfrey was arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge in Texas after he was accused of causing \u201cbodily injury\u201d to a woman he was dating. The charge was later dismissed after Winfrey completed a pretrial diversion program.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Winfrey appeared in one game with the New York Jets and made three tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Bonjour is a breaking news contributor covering the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and WNBA for Heavy. He is also a contributing writer for The Associated Press and has worked for Point Spreads, the Connecticut Post and Hearst Connecticut Media as a reporter and editor. 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