Before the Dallas Cowboys even held their first padded practice of training camp, they suffered a blow to their defense with pass rusher Sam Williams suffering a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, a source told ESPN on Sunday.
Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010. You can follow him on Twitter at @toddarcher.Williams was injured during the special teams' portion of practice after he was engaged in a blocking drill. He remained down for several minutes as he was attended to by the Cowboys' medical staff. He could not put any weight on his leg as he got on a cart and was taken to the locker room.
After practice, owner and general manager Jerry Jones said,"We didn't like what we saw," before Williams headed off for an MRI.Williams has 8.5 sacks in his first two seasons. He was third on the team in sacks with 4.5 in 2023, but he played just 28.3% of the snaps on defense. The Cowboys chose Williams in the second round in 2022 out of Ole Miss."Impressive. Very impressive. Very mature," coach Mike McCarthy said before Sunday's practice.
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