{"id":202077,"date":"2025-10-04T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/202077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:11:07","slug":"cowboys-place-safety-malik-hooker-on-ir-with-toe-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/202077\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys place safety Malik Hooker on IR with toe injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Texas &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3121415\/malik-hooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Hooker<\/a> on injured reserve Saturday, sidelining one of their starting safeties for at least four games after he injured a left toe last week against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys replaced Hooker by signing safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4595352\/alijah-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alijah Clark<\/a> to the active roster from the practice squad for Sunday&#8217;s game at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyj\/new-york-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker, 29, played at least 15 games in each of his first four seasons with the Cowboys following four injury-plagued years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis<\/a> as a first-round draft pick by the Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46479075\/cowboys-least-three-offensive-linemen-vs-jets\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1501619_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The toe injury appeared serious when Hooker pulled up lame in the middle of a play in the first half of the 40-40 tie against the Packers. He was seen at practice in street clothes with a walking boot this past week.<\/p>\n<p>There was no update on left guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2570519\/tyler-smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Smith<\/a>, who is questionable with a knee injury. That means Smith still has a chance to play, with three other starting offensive linemen out against the Jets: center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426663\/cooper-beebe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Beebe<\/a> (foot), rookie right guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4685263\/tyler-booker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Booker<\/a> (ankle) and left tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4609048\/tyler-guyton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Guyton<\/a> (concussion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas &#8212; The Dallas Cowboys placed Malik Hooker on injured reserve Saturday, sidelining one of their starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-202077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}