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Cowboys could have decision to make with Rolando McClain
Todd Archer, ESPN Staff Writer
OXNARD, Calif. -- The Dallas Cowboys will have a decision to make on Rolando McClain’s status to start the season.
With McClain suspended the first four games for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, the Cowboys could elect to leave him on the physically-unable-to perform list, which would cost him the first six weeks of the season.
McClain is recovering from offseason knee surgery and is not close to returning to practice just yet.
If the Cowboys choose to keep McClain on PUP to start the season, his suspension would run concurrently, so he would effectively miss five games with the Cowboys’ bye coming in Week 6.
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said McClain is at a point in his rehab where he could be ready to go Week 1 against the New York Giants if he were eligible.
“I think he’s working toward that and conducting his conditioning and conducting his rehab as though he could play if he were eligible,” Jones said.
Jones said he does not need to see McClain play in a preseason game.
“The kinds of things we want to see from him are basically, we know what he can do,” Jones said. “That has not been diminished in terms physically what he’s been able to do. And you say, ‘Well, why do you have preseason?’ In his case just really get in good shape, get a plan in shape so he can be mentally prepared when we start having him in meetings in regular season when he comes back.”
Todd Archer, ESPN Staff Writer
OXNARD, Calif. -- The Dallas Cowboys will have a decision to make on Rolando McClain’s status to start the season.
With McClain suspended the first four games for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, the Cowboys could elect to leave him on the physically-unable-to perform list, which would cost him the first six weeks of the season.
McClain is recovering from offseason knee surgery and is not close to returning to practice just yet.
If the Cowboys choose to keep McClain on PUP to start the season, his suspension would run concurrently, so he would effectively miss five games with the Cowboys’ bye coming in Week 6.
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said McClain is at a point in his rehab where he could be ready to go Week 1 against the New York Giants if he were eligible.
“I think he’s working toward that and conducting his conditioning and conducting his rehab as though he could play if he were eligible,” Jones said.
Jones said he does not need to see McClain play in a preseason game.
“The kinds of things we want to see from him are basically, we know what he can do,” Jones said. “That has not been diminished in terms physically what he’s been able to do. And you say, ‘Well, why do you have preseason?’ In his case just really get in good shape, get a plan in shape so he can be mentally prepared when we start having him in meetings in regular season when he comes back.”
