Going to be an IR stash this season.
I think this is a real possibility mainly because it's an injury that needs so much time to heal.
Working theory here has been that they were always going to try to see if he and Turpin were interchangeable parts, which explains why Turpin's gotten RB snaps, and Deuce has sometimes lined up in the slot... ie, could Turpin be a good enough RB to open up Deuce's roster slot, and could Deuce be a good enough WR to make Turpin expendable.
People do tend to forget that, even though he made the Pro Bowl, Turpin's numbers for 2023 regressed by quite a bit. Sure, he was hurt and hardly played in 6 games, and otherwise, teams were kicking away from him regularly. To justify his roster slot, they need more overall production in 2024 on both offense and ST. The sense is that the new KO rule will allow that to happen. We'll see. The other thing is, he's 28 now... not old by any stretch, but you start to anticipate in general that players begin losing a step in that age range.
If I'm right, only one of them will make the 53-man, and one month out, Turpin is the leader by default at the first quarter pole. The thought may be, though, to stash Deuce, anticipating that Turpin could very well sustain another shoulder or ankle injury like he did last season.
But the post-mortems for Deuce's Cowboys paycheck has long been premature at best, and better considered nonsense for reasons we've well established over this past off-season.
