It’s been a relatively slow start to the season for Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant, and he’ll apparently have to wait even longer to get things going.
The star wideout has a hairline fracture in his right knee and will likely miss the Cowboys’ Week 4 game against the San Francisco 49ers, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Bryant — who missed most of the 2015 season with a fractured foot — missed an MRI and treatment for the injury Monday, but did undergo the MRI on Wednesday. The Cowboys fined him for his behavior. As for why Bryant skipped the first MRI, Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett thinks Bryant was just afraid of hearing the worst.
“Right after the game on Sunday night, he got some information about his knee and he suspected it was a serious injury,” Garrett told reporters Thursday, per NFL.com. “He’s a very passionate guy, like we’ve talked about, and he really thought he was going to get some bad news when he got the MRI on Monday. Like some of us do in life, at times, he avoided it and didn’t come in to take care of his business on Monday or Tuesday. Then he came in on Wednesday and took care of that part of it (the MRI). We got the information. He suspected it was worse than the information that we got.”
Bryant’s next chance to get on the field will be when the Cowboys host the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 5.
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