Jones: Dak 'determined' to return against Lions

FRISCO, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones is hopeful Dak Prescott volition beryllium capable to instrumentality to the starting lineup Sunday against the Detroit Lions aft missing 5 games with a fractured close thumb.

"Well, let's conscionable accidental this: He's determined to [play]," Jones said connected 105.3 The Fan successful Dallas. "I deliberation he's, from my perspective, from what I tin cognize and see, I deliberation he's going to get there. We consciousness similar that physically, he's astatine a presumption that the risk/reward justifies him being retired determination successful presumption of immoderate reoccurrence of the injury."

Jones said Prescott had a "very impressive" throwing league earlier Sunday's crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles. After the game, Prescott said it was his program to play against the Lions. On Monday, manager Mike McCarthy said Prescott would beryllium cleared medically by Tuesday and would instrumentality to signifier Wednesday.

Prescott began throwing lone past week aft undergoing country connected Sept. 12.

"The last threshold is ever instrumentality to play, but past there's the timing. That's for immoderate position," McCarthy said Monday. "When you look astatine players who are returned to play, they're cleared medically to play, but if you don't consciousness the timing is rather there, they whitethorn request different week. That's wherefore if you look astatine the regimentation of however we've been bringing Dak back, evidently pursuing the aesculapian process of it, we've been trying to bash arsenic overmuch throwing, peculiarly the idiosyncratic routes connected air, arsenic overmuch arsenic we can. I deliberation we've checked the boxes."

Jones is not disquieted astir Prescott overcompensating for the thumb successful a mode that would pb to issues elsewhere with his throwing motion.

"I deliberation he's got a bully accidental to get retired there," Jones said.

The Cowboys went 4-1 with Cooper Rush arsenic their starter, and Jones does not deliberation the Cowboys volition person to bounds their discourtesy whenever Prescott returns aft a agelong layoff.

"We'll get to bash thing that we privation to do," Jones said. "No 1 is much prepared. No 1 has spent much hours preparing to play a shot crippled than Dak. I deliberation we've got it each there, the afloat repertoire. I don't deliberation determination volition beryllium immoderate limitations connected thing we do."