Wednesday, August 24, 2016
COWBOYS
Wideout Dez Bryant suffers concussion
FRISCO, Texas
Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant will miss the next preseason game after sustaining a concussion in practice.
Coach Jason Garrett said Tuesday that Bryant was hurt a day earlier when the receiver’s head hit the shoulder pads of safety Barry Church. Garrett says Bryant was held out of the rest of that practice and will not play Thursday night at Seattle.
On his Twitter account Tuesday, Bryant promised Cowboys fans that he is OK.
Garrett said Bryant seemed “much better” Tuesday, and the coach doesn’t think there is a long-term concern.
Raiders
Marinovich arrested while naked with drugs
IRVINE, Calif.
Former USC and Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich has been arrested after being found naked with marijuana and possibly methamphetamine in a stranger’s backyard in Southern California.
Irvine Police Cmdr. Mike Hallinan said Monday that Marinovich was arrested Friday night after a call saying a naked man was on a hiking trail near homes. The officers found him in a backyard holding a brown bag containing marijuana and a substance that appeared to be meth but police are awaiting lab results.
The 47-year-old Marinovich was a star quarterback at USC and the Raiders’ first-round draft pick in 1991, but drug problems drove him from the NFL after two seasons and he has had repeated run-ins with the law over drugs in the decades since.
Patriots
Brady says he will play after scissors mishap
FOXBOROUGH, Mass.
Tom Brady says he’s ready to play after a “silly accident” cut his right thumb with a pair of scissors before the Patriots preseason game against the Bears last week.
Brady says he missed the first two practices this week for personal reasons, but he’s available and ready to play as New England prepares to play at Carolina.
He says the accident with the scissors occurred when he was trying to get something out of his cleats and the scissors slipped and cut his thumb.
PACKERS
Rodgers expected to play Friday night
GREEN BAY, Wis.
Aaron Rodgers is tempering his expectations for himself and the Green Bay offense Friday night.
All Rodgers is expecting is to finally play a game this preseason when the Packers visit the San Francisco 49ers.
“Whatever Mike wants me to do,” Rodgers said Tuesday, referring to coach Mike McCarthy.
Though playing time for Green Bay’s third of four preseason games won’t be set until Wednesday, the goal according to McCarthy is to play Rodgers after he was a healthy scratch the previous two weeks.
Associated Press