BREAKING: Cowboys DE Robert Quinn needs surgery for hand fracture; should be ready for Week 1
OXNARD - The Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday absorbed an injury to a key starter as defensive end Robert Quinn left the afternoon workout here in Oxnard with a hand issue that turns out to be a fracture that will require surgery. He is returning to DFW for that procedure.
"I think he'll be ready for the start of the season, for sure,'' Cowboys COO Stephen Jones said. "The relief is he's going to be back and be fine and be ready to play the (Week 1 foe) Giants.''
Quinn and his agent worked to engineer a March 29 trade that sent a sixth-round pick in 2020 to the Dolphins, a transaction that came with a new one-year deal worth $8 million in Dallas..
He is a two-time Pro Bowler and the former NFL Defensive Player of the Year -- who has 69 career sacks to his credit -- figures to start opposite DeMarcus Lawrence, the other Pro Bowl end who remains on PUP as he rehabs his shoulder.
When it all comes together, good health and important games?
“I don’t see a weakness, which is unbelievable to say,” Quinn recently said in review of his new team. “It makes you more excited to come into the building. It makes you want to work harder. You don’t want to let anyone down because of what they did last year. I believe I’m a pretty decent player. So I just want to add what I can do and help this team get even better.”
That will now happen, hopefully for the Cowboys, in September.
