Dallas Cowboys Injury Report: Week 1

While it seemed a few weeks ago that the Cowboys would be without several starters for their season debut, every day it looks more like they'll be close to full strength.

Safety Gerald Sensabaugh, who missed the last two preseason games because of a sprained shoulder, has said that he was going to play. Sensabaugh proved to be a tough guy having missed no time after breaking his thumb last season.

Sensabaugh said he tested his shoulder, although the team doctors told him not to in practice. If Sensabaugh starts that will put Mike Hamlin on special teams for the game on Sunday night against the Redskins.

Receiver Dez Bryant has finally been cleared to play as Wade Phillips was quoted on the Cowboys website saying, "He can tweet that or whatever."

Bryant has been healthy for the last two weeks but was held out of the final preseason game against the Dolphins as a precaution; however, he did run routes before the game and looked crisp.

This will be Bryant's first game in about a year, as the last game he played was on Sept. 9th of last year.

Defensive end Marcus Spears will also see his first action on Sunday as he practiced lightly last week and has been cleared to practice in full this week.

Spears sprained his MCL in practice and missed most of the preseason. Phillips said that Spears will most likely play just his end spot instead of spelling Jay Ratliff at the tackle position. That will be left up to rookie Josh Brent.

Marc Colombo and Kyle Kosier spent today rehabbing while the team practiced, and Phillips has said that he doesn't know yet if either will play. He did say that he expected Colombo to practice at some point this week, "If they tell me he's going to practice, he'll practice," Phillips said. "If he doesn't, then I'll be less optimistic."

Colombo had surgery the third week of August to clean out some loose particles in his knee and Kosier sprained his ankle on Aug 18th. Alex Barron and Montrae Holland will start on Sunday if they can't play.