The signal caller also suffered a hand laceration on Sunday, but Rapoport previously reported that Prescott’s hand was fine.

Cooper Rush, who replaced Prescott after the injury on Sunday, is in line to start. Dallas also has former first-round pick Trey Lance as an option.

Sunday’s loss dropped the Cowboys to 3-5 on the season ahead of a Week 10 tilt against the Philadelphia Eagles.

In a season already on a downward spiral, Dallas has lost three games in a row for the first time since weeks 6-9 of 2020 (four games). Things could get worse with each of the next three games against teams of 3 plus games over .500: Week 10 vs. Philly (6-2), Week 11 vs. Houston (6-3), Week 12 at Washington (7-2).

Prescott is the latest big Cowboys player to go down this season. Demarcus Lawrence is on IR. Micah Parsons hasn’t played since Week 4.

With their big-money QB absent for several weeks during the most brutal stretch of the season, the chances of Mike McCarthy’s club turning things around in 2024 went from bad to worse.