Tight End · Dallas Cowboys

Princeton Fant

No. 85 · 4th season

Princeton Fant was carted off practice and won't be coming back this year

It happened at practice, which is the worst kind of place for a season to end. No crowd, no game on the line — just a Tuesday that turned into the hardest kind of news.

Fant is a tight end for the Dallas Cowboys, a player building toward something with the team. That building stops now. He tore the ACL in his left knee and was carted off the field, and the league's longest recovery clock has started.

An ACL tear means nine to twelve months before a player is back doing what they do. For Fant, that means this season is gone before it started in any real way. Whatever role he was working toward in Dallas's offense, that work is on hold.

The injury doesn't just cost him games. It costs him a year of momentum, a year of proving himself, a year of being on the field. That's the part that doesn't show up anywhere — what a lost season takes from a player who is still figuring out how big his story is going to be.

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