Jake Ferguson left Sunday's game against the Cardinals with an ankle injury and will not return. The Cowboys lost their top tight end in the middle of the Dallas Game, and the burden of finishing the night at the position now falls to Brevyn Spann-Ford and James Mitchell.
Joe Hoyt reported that Ferguson would not come back, while Tommy Yarrish reported the ankle injury that forced the exit. The details matter because Ferguson had not been targeted by Dak Prescott before he left, which makes the injury look more abrupt than a typical in-game setback and leaves Dallas to sort out the rest of the contest without a player it had expected to use.
That change lands on a team that had just come off Monday's 38-21 win over the Eagles, when Ferguson also came up empty on his lone target. Goodson, Flournoy and Pickens all produced in that game, but the tight end room now has a different task: absorb the snaps and carry the load until the final whistle. The only immediate certainty is that Ferguson's ankle ended his night early, and the next question is whether the injury costs him anything beyond Sunday.
