{"id":101195,"date":"2025-12-26T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101195\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:06:32","slug":"commanders-vs-cowboys-inactives-christmas-illness-knocks-out-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101195\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders vs Cowboys Inactives: Christmas illness knocks out starter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Commanders released their final injury report<\/a> for today\u2019s game yesterday and then made three more roster moves<\/a>. DT Ricky Barber and WR River Cracraft were elevated for today\u2019s game, and it\u2019s the first elevation for both of them. Barber was an UDFA the team signed after this year\u2019s draft, and Cracraft was with the team last season.<\/p>\n

Earlier this morning, the Commanders added RB Chris Rodriguez Jr to the injury report with an illness<\/a>, and listed him as questionable. He\u2019s inactive for today\u2019s game. But Washington still has Bill Croskey-Merritt, Jeremy McNichols, and Chase Edmonds available. Rodriguez was named a captain for this game.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week they added Jeff Driskel to be Josh Johnson\u2019s backup, and they signed Sam Hartman from the practice squad to be the team\u2019s emergency 3rd QB. Both Jayden Daniels (elbow) and Marcus Mariota (hand\/quad) are out this week. Daniels was shut down for the season, and Mariota had stitches in his throwing hand after it was stepped on during the Eagles game Saturday.<\/p>\n

Washington continues to churn the roster due to injuries, and they placed three more players on injured reserve this week. RG Sam Cosmi (concussion), DT Eddie Goldman (concussion), and WR\/PR Jaylin Lane (ankle) were all shut down for the season. Along with signing Driskel from the Cardinals practice squad, they also claimed DT Shy Tuttle (Titans) and WR\/PR Jamal Agnew (Falcons) off waivers, but Agnew failed his physical.<\/p>\n

The Commanders ruled out five players yesterday. LT Laremy Tunsil is missing another game due to an oblique injury, and Brandon Coleman will get another start. DT Daron Payne didn\u2019t practice all week with a back injury, and he\u2019s missing his second game of the season. LB Nick Bellore was in the concussion protocol on a short week, and won\u2019t be able to lead the special teams unit today.<\/p>\n

QB Sam Hartman (Emergency 3rd QB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders released their final injury report for today\u2019s game yesterday and then made three more roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,9802],"class_list":["post-101195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-washington-commanders-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}