During Sunday night’s 20-16 win over the Minnesota Vikings, NBC sideline reporter Michele Tafoya reported that Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott’s calf injury may be more serious than the team had let on since the end of the New England game. In fact, the word “strain” may itself have been strained to the limit to describe the injury as Tafoya stated that while making the game-winning throw to CeeDee Lamb in Foxborough, Prescott “felt a pop” and she characterized the injury as a tear.
A tear is greater than a strain, and when Prescott himself acknowledged the injury may have been the result of his surgically-repaired ankle being more immobilized—the second possible compensation-based injury Prescott has suffered since training camp—concern naturally follows.