{"id":68401,"date":"2025-08-08T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68401\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:24:07","slug":"cowboys-g-rob-jones-out-for-2025-after-breaking-bone-in-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68401\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys G Rob Jones out for 2025 after breaking bone in neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Todd ArcherAug 8, 2025, 03:28 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.<\/p>\n

OXNARD, Calif. — Rob Jones<\/a>‘ first season with the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> has come to an end in training camp.<\/p>\n

After Jones suffered a broken bone in his neck July 28 in the first padded practice, the Cowboys placed the guard on injured reserve Friday. Jones was given a two- to three-month recovery period, but his return to the field was never certain, so the Cowboys opted to place him on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

He would have been eligible to return this season had he been on the roster until the final cuts later this month.<\/p>\n

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Jones signed a one-year deal with the Cowboys worth $3.75 million and with $3 million guaranteed. At the time of his injury, he had seen some first-team action but was likely going to back up rookie Tyler Booker<\/a> at right guard. Jones started 30 of 49 games in four years with the Miami Dolphins<\/a> before joining the Cowboys.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys signed running back Malik Davis<\/a> to take Jones’ roster spot. Davis was released by the Cowboys in April after spending most of the past two seasons on their practice squad.<\/p>\n

With Miles Sanders<\/a> missing time with a bruised knee and Deuce Vaughn<\/a> only now coming back from a hamstring strain, the Cowboys needed running back help. On Thursday, rookie Jaydon Blue<\/a> suffered an ankle injury in practice, leaving the Cowboys with just three fully healthy runners: Javonte Williams<\/a>, Phil Mafah<\/a> and Hunter Luepke<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd ArcherAug 8, 2025, 03:28 PM ET CloseTodd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-68401","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\/68401","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=68401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}