{"id":104195,"date":"2025-07-30T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104195\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:18:16","slug":"how-can-cowboys-handle-life-without-tyler-guyton-breaking-down-dallas-options-at-lt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104195\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Cowboys handle life without Tyler Guyton? Breaking down Dallas\u2019 options at LT"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXNARD, Calif. \u2014 In the first week and half of training camp the Cowboys <\/a>have lost starting right tackle Terence Steele for a few days with an ankle injury,<\/a> backup guard Rob Jones for two to three months with a broken bone in his neck <\/a>and now this: Starting left tackle Tyler Guyton is out until September with a fractured bone and sprained ligament in his right knee.<\/a><\/p>\n

Team officials are hopeful Guyton can return for the Sept. 4 season opener at Philadelphia<\/a>, but at this stage of training camp, the home opener against the New York Giants on Sept. 14 is a better target.<\/p>\n

The loss of Guyton for an extended period could have been devastating, considering medical officials first made sure his ACL was secure. Once that ligament was declared in good shape, further examinations revealed the fractured bone and sprain in the knee.<\/p>\n

So now, offensive coordinator Klayton Adams must get someone else ready to play. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe create as much competition as we can, that\u2019s the easy answer to it,\u201d Adams said Tuesday. \u201cYou know, obviously, it\u2019s unfortunate anytime you got guys who are going to miss [time]. But it\u2019s also one of the reasons we don\u2019t really believe in the old mentality of get the starters ready to play. We need to get everybody ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related:Dallas Cowboys\u2019 OL depth is getting tested immediately after Tyler Guyton\u2019s knee injury<\/a><\/p>\n

If the season started today, there\u2019s a chance Asim Richards, the 2023 fifth-round pick,<\/a> and Nate Thomas, a 2023 seventh-round pick<\/a>, would be the favorites for the No. 1 spot on the depth chart. <\/p>\n

Richards has started just one NFL game, Nov. 10 against the Eagles when Guyton was injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s certainly got plenty of talent,\u201d Adams said of Richards. \u201cAlso, a good guy, who\u2019s smart and tough and willing to learn. He\u2019s going to be in that mix of guys that are going to get that opportunity now as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas missed last season with a knee injury and is improving each day in training camp.<\/p>\n

The personnel staff believes Thomas is strong and athletic enough to compete for the job. <\/p>\n

Stephen Jones, the Cowboys co-owner and chief operating officer, had strong comments about Thomas during a radio interview on KRLD-FM (105.3 The Fan) Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s having a really good camp for us,\u201d Jones said. \u201cHe has exceeded expectations. He\u2019s serious-minded about what he\u2019s doing out there. We do feel like we have some good players there that can certainly do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams dismissed the notion left guard Tyler Smith<\/a> should be moved to left tackle. Adams said if a player is a Pro Bowler at a particular spot, there\u2019s no reason to move him.<\/p>\n

This brings us to Ajani Cornelius and Garland native Hakeem Adeniji<\/a> as the other candidates.<\/p>\n

Adams said most of the backup players \u201cneed to play both spots,\u201d whether that\u2019s tackle or guard positions.<\/p>\n

Adeniji replaced Steele when he was out. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s doing a nice job,\u201d Adams said. <\/p>\n

The Cowboys moved tackle Matt Waletzko to guard, and he\u2019s currently nursing a leg injury, so returning him to his original position doesn\u2019t seem prudent.<\/p>\n

Cornelius, a sixth-round pick from Oregon,<\/a> is not ready to start so the practice squad is in his future.<\/p>\n

For Adeniji, experience is a bonus. He was the Bengals\u2019 2020 sixth-round selection and started in Super Bowl LVI. He\u2019s played for Minnesota as well, but last year he was placed on injured reserve by Cleveland with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Now fully healthy, Adeniji is getting his opportunity to not only make the 53-man roster but compete for a starting role.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys like what they saw in Richards last season and gave him the starting gig when Guyton went down with a shoulder injury. <\/p>\n

Richards was drafted under the previous coaching staff. When things change, so do the evaluations of players.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd everybody on this roster needs to be getting better and that sounds like a clich\u00e9 thing but I 100% believe in that and I know the head coach does too,\u201d Adams said. \u201cThere\u2019s danger in opportunity and we need to give several guys a chance to see what they can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXNARD, Calif. \u2014 In the first week and half of training camp the Cowboys have lost starting right…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,7311,1596,8998,1232,358,20026,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-104195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-training-camp","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940969126997929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}