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The Cowboys' secondary has lost its chief communicator, free safety Ken Hamlin, for two-to-four weeks with a high ankle sprain he suffered in Sunday's 17-7 loss to the Packers.

IRVING, Texas a ' Dallas Cowboys punt returner Patrick Crayton will try to set history in Sunday's game at Philadelphia.

Robert Brewster's rookie season has been washed out because of a torn pectoral muscle suffered in the off-season conditioning program, but he remains on the physically unable to perform list.

On Saturday the Cowboys whittled their roster to 52, one short of the NFL limit, by waiving 22 players and sending another to the season-ending injured reserve.

A primary goal in preseason - as much as polish and preparation for the games that count - is starters' health.

Head of the class. Ugh. a For the most part, the Dallas Cowboys' pre-season was smooth.

Rookie linebacker Stephen Hodge had never missed a game due to injury since he started playing football in fourth grade, much less two of three - the Cowboys' preseason losses to Oakland and San Francisco - with a sore surgically-repaired knee.

What : Cowboys at Vikings When : Friday, Sept. 3/ 7 p.m. Where : Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome / Minneapolis TV : Blue Star Media - KTVT CBS 11 Radio : KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan; CBS Radio Mega 107.5 About the Cowboys : With most of the starters, if not all of them, expected to sit out the preseason finale in Minnesota, this will be the final ...

When Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress decided to rest Brett Favre and many starters for the preseason finale against Dallas on Friday night, it did anything but render the game meaningless.

A pair of Pee Dee NFL players are battling injuries. Steelers linebacker Lawrence Timmons, who played at Wilson, is dealing with a high ankle sprain while Lamar's Michael Hamlin, a safety for the Cowboys, broke his wrist and is expected to miss more than a month.

The Dallas Cowboys shored up their injury-plagued rookie class by adding a pair of undrafted cornerbacks in DeAngelo Willingham and Jeremy Haynes.

Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley Moments ago, Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said during his daily news conference that he'll hold wide receiver Roy Williams out of Friday's game in Minnesota.

Wade Phillips sees a disturbing trend in the Dallas Cowboys' preseason injuries.

Safety Mike Hamlin, a fifth-round pick, suffered a broken right wrist covering a kickoff during the third quarter.

By signing linebacker Tearrius George, the Cowboys' roster stands at 77 and they will need to trim that by two on Tuesday to reach the NFL limit going into the final preseason game Sept.

Jerry Jones said he sees no reason to raise the video board at Cowboys Stadium, even though a punt hit it during Friday's preseason game against the Tennessee Titans.

By JEFF CAPLAN IRVING - Rookie linebacker Brandon Williams' season is finished.

Jerry Jones said he sees no reason to raise the video board at Cowboys Stadium, even though a punt hit it during Friday's preseason game against the Tennessee Titans.

Roundly heralded as the standout of training camp, Cowboys receiver Sam Hurd carried his strong play over to the preseason-opener in Oakland.

The theme of their rookie season has been shared experience. It began for the Cowboys' draft class as soon as the lottery ended, when they were roundly dismissed by television and Internet analysts, and continued the next weekend when the group came together in a crisis.