Tony Romo will have surgery on his injured collarbone, one requiring the insertion of a plate to often-injured area for the Dallas Cowboys quarterback.
Around the NFL’s Marc Sessler wrote Friday that his colleague Ian Rapoport reported that Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo will go under the knife to repair his frequently injured collarbone.
The procedure will involve inserting a plate into the clavicle, the bone Romo broke twice in the 2015 NFL season. In his tenure with the Cowboys, Romo has broken his clavicle three times and clearly doesn’t want that to continue in the last few years of his NFL career.
While Romo is still a top-10 quarterback in the NFL when healthy, if he isn’t able to go for the Cowboys on Fall Sundays, the team implodes and become one of the worst teams in football. Dallas was nine games worse in 2015 than they were the year before, as Romo dealt with a broken collarbone for most of last season.
Even though inserting a plate into the clavicle to provide the bone some stability for the Dallas quarterback sounds painful, Romo is only expected to need six to eight weeks of recovery time and should be available for organized team activities early this summer.
With Romo being 36 years old in the 2016 NFL season, one has to believe that the Cowboys will look for their next franchise quarterback to groom once Romo calls it a career in a few years. Dallas has the No. 4 draft pick after their abysmal 4-12 season, the worst record in the NFC.
While Dallas may have other more pressing needs at the present to get back to contention in 2016, might the Cowboys use their fourth overall selection on California Golden Bears starting quarterback Jared Goff? Regardless of what the Cowboys choose to do in the 2016 NFL Draft, they will need a suitable backup to Romo this season to ensure that Dallas doesn’t let another year of prime Romo go to waste if he succumbs to injury again next fall.