Cowboys hot topic: Roster depth facing first test

Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports He is one of the league’s leaders in receiving yardage, but has to sit for a while.It is inevitable. Every NFL team has to have a plan when starters get injured, because it will happen. The Dallas Cowboys are now facing their first notable missing players, with wide receiver Michael Gallup and Xavier Woods both out for what are hoped to be short times. They also have day-to-day situations with defensive linemen Antwaun Woods, Tyrone Crawford, and Robert Quinn. The latter has just come off his suspension to start the season, but he is also recovering from a hand injury that would probably have kept him off the field for the initial two games. Now Dallas is going to find out if a widely held assumption before the season is true: This is believed to be one of the deepest rosters ever for the Cowboys, and it should be able to take minor injuries like this in stride.

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