Tyler Goodson Injury: The Cowboys' RB2 Is Expected to Miss Time With a Knee Injury — One Day After the Best Game of His Career

FRISCO — Tyler Goodson's Sunday could hardly have gone better, and his Monday could hardly have gone worse. The Cowboys' No. 2 running back is expected to miss time with a knee injury suffered in the Week 9 win over the Colts, executive vice president Stephen Jones said Monday on 105.3 The Fan. "He's got a real injury that unfortunately he's probably gonna miss some time with," Jones said. No timeline was announced; 'some time' is the whole of what the team has said.

The timing is the cruel part. Goodson, who played for Indianapolis from 2023 to 2025, had just produced the best game of his career against his former team: 77 rushing yards on 12 carries, 6.4 yards a carry, in the 27-23 win that moved Dallas to 4-5. He had settled, over six games since joining the Cowboys in September, into the RB2 role behind Javonte Williams — 86 yards on 28 carries as the change-of-pace option — and Sunday looked like the game the role became his outright. Instead, the backfield behind Williams reopens three weeks into November, with San Francisco at AT&T Stadium on Sunday and the stretch run behind it.

The injury lands on a Monday when the organization's public line was otherwise confidence. Head coach Brian Schottenheimer, speaking with the trade deadline less than 24 hours away (Tuesday, 3 p.m. Central), said: "I'm very comfortable with our team. I think the heart of these guys, the way that they've shown that they can perform. We just have to be more consistent in that performance." Stephen Jones's deadline word earlier Monday was that it is 'pretty quiet on our front' (covered as SQ-20261109-048). A quiet deadline plus a thinner backfield is the combination Dallas now carries into the 49ers week; the desk's roster file updates when the team names Goodson's replacement in the rotation.