{"id":456451,"date":"2026-10-04T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456451\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:30:09","slug":"cowboys-s-alijah-clark-returns-vs-texans-after-brief-injury-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456451\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys S Alijah Clark returns vs. Texans after brief injury exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> can breathe a sigh of relief, at least on the injury front.<\/p>\n<p>Safety Alijah Clark was carted off the sideline during Sunday&#8217;s Cowboys-Texans game at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Clark was injured in punt coverage after the Cowboys forced a third-down incompletion from Houston&#8217;s C.J. Stroud. Clark was later deemed questionable to return with an ankle injury, but he returned to the game in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is a key depth piece of the Cowboys&#8217; secondary. He has also been a playmaker on special teams since he joined the team as an undrafted rookie in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This post will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Dallas Cowboys can breathe a sigh of relief, at least on the injury front. Safety Alijah Clark was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-456451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456451","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=456451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}