{"id":397670,"date":"2026-08-04T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:52:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-hit-with-their-first-season-ending-injury-of-training-camp-brian-schottenheimer-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397670\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys hit with their first season-ending injury of training camp, Brian Schottenheimer announces"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Cowboys held their first padded practice of training camp on Monday. Unfortunately, they quickly suffered a tough injury. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJul 29, 2026; Oxnard, CA, USA; Dallas Cowboys Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer at training camp press conference at River Ridge Playing Fields.
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The return of football is always exciting, but it\u2019s also inevitably a reminder of how brutal the sport is. For the Dallas Cowboys, that reminder came Monday when the offense suffered a season-ending injury. <\/p>\n

Brian Schottenheimer announced tight end Princeton Fant suffered a torn ACL and a partial tear to his MCL. He revealed Fant will have surgery in a couple of weeks. <\/p>\n

\u201cReally disappointed for (Fant),\u201d Schottenheimer told reporters. \u201cFor everything that he\u2019s put into this. Obviously he was very disappointed.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fant was carted off the field on Monday\u2019s practice, the first practice in pads of Cowboys training camp this year. <\/p>\n

Schottenheimer has message for Cowboys TE<\/p>\n

The news is unfortunate for Fant, who is entering his fourth year in the NFL. Though he\u2019s been on and off the Cowboys\u2019 53-man roster since his rookie year in 2023, he has always remained a practice squad guy. <\/p>\n

His versatility at the position makes him a valuable depth piece. Schottenheimer doesn\u2019t believe Fant\u2019s career is over just yet. <\/p>\n

\u201cI told him \u2018hey look, your story is far from over,\u201d Schottenheimer shared. \u201cHe\u2019s been through this injury before. The doctors feel real good about the chance of him making a full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of this season, Fant was a longshot to make the 53-man roster. After the injury, the Cowboys tight end position will be made up by Jake Ferguson, Luke Schoonmaker, Brevyn Spann-Ford, and undrafted free agents Michael Trigg and D.J. Rogers. <\/p>\n

Schottenheimer also announced safety P.J. Locke will work back into practice Tuesday. Locke suffered a knee injury earlier in training camp. On Monday, he indicated Jalen Thompson (hip) is \u201cdoing great\u201d while Zion Childress (hamstring) will take longer to return. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t3 overlooked but telling training camp observations about the new-look Dallas Cowboys defense\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dallas Cowboys are boasting a new defense in 2026. Here are a few observations from the team\u2019s first padded practice that say a thing or two about the scheme of the unit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys held their first padded practice of training camp on Monday. Unfortunately, they quickly suffered a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7581,102,113,104,103,100506],"class_list":["post-397670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brian-schottenheimer","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-princeton-fant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397670","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=397670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}