The Dallas Cowboys are strolling wounded, each bodily and spiritually, nearest their 42-10 “kick in the ass” — head lecturer Mike McCarthy’s phrases — on the San Francisco 49ers on “Sunday Night Football.” Certainly one of their crucial accidents from that defeat was once inside of linebacker Leighton Vander Esch, the group’s number one defensive, on-field signal-caller. He departed the sport with a neck trauma, and generation the group hasn’t made any reputable designation about his trauma situation, it didn’t tone hopeful on Monday. Vander Esch fractured his collarbone within the 2019 season, an trauma that required he have surgical operation that ended his 12 months. 

Moment Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn has visible Markquese Bell and alternative safeties suppose one of the tasks he would usually assign to a linebacker, the Cowboys have long gone to exterior aide to assistance fill within the hole. Dallas is “expected to sign” 27-year-old, independent agent linebacker Rashaan Evans, pending a bodily, nearest operating him out on Wednesday, in line with the Dallas Morning Information. In line with ESPN, Vander Esch is predicted to to be out 4 to 6 weeks. Evans was once the twenty second general pick out within the 2018 NFL Draft through the Tennessee Titans. The Alabama alum spent his first 4 season with the Titans, and he signed a one-year, $1.8 million word of honour with the Atlanta Falcons nearest having his fifth-year possibility declined. Evans posted career-highs in tackles (159) and fumbles recovered (two) in 2022 with the Falcons. 

Since Evans is also a rotational participant and no longer an every-down participant in Quinn’s protection, be expecting safeties Jayron Kearse and Malik Hooker to have alternatives to put on the helmet with the fairway dot decal at the again, indicating that there’s a microphone within the helmet permitting them to listen Quinn’s play games cries from the sales space. 

“In the past, it has been [safeties] JK [Jayron Kearse] and Malik Hooker,” Quinn stated. “Sometimes in practice we will rotate somebody different just to give them a go at it. … Generally if it wasn’t Leighton, it would be JK or Malik who would do it.”

This isn’t the primary while gamers from the Cowboys defensive backfield were the signal-callers as Vander Esch wasn’t an every-down linebacker in Quinn’s first season as Dallas’ defensive coordinator in 2021. 

“It was more by the design of playtime early on where we rotated Leighton some and he wasn’t on all third downs, but then it became where he is in almost all of the packages where he could go back and forth,” Quinn stated. “When he wasn’t in all of them, for third downs, I would have guys signal when he wasn’t part of third downs early. That precipitated the shift. It wasn’t necessarily by a player, it was by the design of not having to use the signal when you didn’t want to. If we have to go back the other way, almost all of the free safeties are guys who are always out there.”