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Cowboys Waive Emari Demercado, D.J. Rogers as Injured Players Near Return
Fresh off their 38-21 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys made a pair of roster moves on Tuesday, waiving running back Emari Demercado and tight end D.J. Rogers.
For Demercado, it is his second release from Dallas this month. The Cowboys first waived him on October 8, when left guard Tyler Smith was activated from injured reserve. After clearing waivers, Demercado rejoined the team on October 12. But his second stint never produced a role: he was inactive against both the Green Bay Packers and the Eagles and did not appear in a game, after recording five carries for 15 yards in two appearances earlier this season.
Rogers’ story is different. The undrafted rookie tight end from TCU signed with Dallas in April but sprained his MCL late in the preseason. He was waived with an injury designation on August 30, went unclaimed, and reverted to the Cowboys’ injured reserve list. Stuck behind Jake Ferguson, Luke Schoonmaker and Brevyn Spann-Ford, and unable to practice or compete while on injured reserve, Rogers never appeared in a regular-season game for Dallas. He was waived from injured reserve on Tuesday.
The timing of the moves points to roster flexibility. Dallas has opened practice windows for outside linebacker Marist Liufau and safety P.J. Locke as both work toward returning from injured reserve. Liufau fractured his forearm in the preseason, while Locke has been recovering from a plantar fascia injury in his foot. Neither player traveled with the team to Philadelphia, but both are approaching the point where the Cowboys could consider activating them.
Clearing two spots now gives Dallas room to make those decisions ahead of Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have spent the last month winning games with an incomplete roster. The cavalry is finally in sight.
Wide receiver Roman Wilson and defensive tackle Derrick Harmon are nearing the end of their required four-game stays on injured reserve, and Pittsburgh’s upcoming bye week falls at the perfect time to welcome them back. The Steelers play once more in Week 8 before the bye gives their returning players an extra week to get ready.
Pittsburgh has weathered the absences well, beating the teams it was supposed to beat, including the New Orleans Saints 16-10 in the NFL’s first game in Paris. But the holes have been real. At receiver, the Steelers lost Michael Pittman Jr. to injured reserve in Week 5 after he aggravated a foot injury, and Wilson went down with a finger injury in the second half of that same week and landed on IR as well. Rookie Germie Bernard has been asked to carry a bigger role behind DK Metcalf ever since.
Not every return is on schedule. Reports indicate there is a chance Pittman misses the rest of the season, and defensive lineman Sebastian Joseph-Day’s return timeline remains unknown. But Wilson and Harmon would restore two rotation pieces at positions where Pittsburgh has been stretching its depth for a month.
Head coach Mike McCarthy likes where his roster stands as the reinforcements approach.
“We’ve got the right guys,” McCarthy said during his weekly press conference. “We’ve got a really great mix of veterans and young guys, and you’re just seeing it come together.”
The Steelers built their record without some of their best young players. If Wilson and Harmon come off the bye at full strength, the team that takes the field for the second half of the season will be deeper than the one that survived the first half.
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