{"id":434347,"date":"2026-09-13T01:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434347\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:10:33","slug":"cowboys-add-israel-abanikanda-after-malik-davis-hip-injury-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434347\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys add Israel Abanikanda after Malik Davis hip injury \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys placed running back Malik Davis on injured reserve Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/sports\/blue-star\/cowboys-rb-malik-davis-is-out-for-the-season-with-a-hip-injury\/4076044\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a day after he sustained a season-ending hip injury in practice<\/a>, and added Israel Abanikanda to the active roster from the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Davis had the No. 2 job behind Javonte Williams before the injury, holding on to that spot through training camp as second-year back Jaydon Blue of Texas competed against him. Davis&#8217; injury requires surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys waived Blue at the end of the preseason and claimed Emari Demercado off waivers from Kansas City. Demercado will fill the role behind Williams in Sunday&#8217;s season opener at the New York Giants. Dallas also has fullback Hunter Luepke.<\/p>\n<p>Davis ran for 411 yards and three touchdowns as Williams&#8217; backup last season. Demercado had 312 yards in his third season with Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Demercado has a history with Cowboys offensive coordinator Klayton Adams. They were together for Demercardo&#8217;s first two years with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Abanikanda was a fifth-round pick by the New York Jets three years ago. He joined the Dallas practice squad last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys placed running back Malik Davis on injured reserve Saturday, a day after he sustained a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,113,104,103],"class_list":["post-434347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434347","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=434347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}