Football is a game of attrition, and every team must deal with injuries over the course of a season. But you need some extra bad mojo to get hit the way the Cowboys got hit with injuries last year.
Every year, Football Outsiders used to publish their statistical study of team health from the previous NFL season, and Aaron Schatz has carried on that tradition at his new site, FTNFantasy.com. For 2024, Schatz determined that the Cowboys were one of the teams hit harder by the injury bug, especially on defense, at least according to their metric called Adjusted Games Lost (AGL).