The Cowboys got quarterback Tony Romo back on the practice field Thursday, marking a step forward in Romo’s recovery from the pair of transverse process fractures in his back that kept him out of last week’s loss to Arizona.
After the session, Romo said that he was sore but not to an unexpected level given his lack of recent off-field work. He wasn’t making any grand statements about his chances of playing against the Jaguars in London on Sunday, but Romo did say that things are getting better with the injury and that anyone waiting to feel great isn’t going to play in many games over the course of a season.
“We’ll see. We’ll keep taking it day by day and just see what happens as we move closer,” Romo said, via NFL Media. “It’s improving each day and I think we did some things today that were positive. If it keeps moving in that direction, we’ll have a good chance.”
Owner Jerry Jones said earlier on Thursday that he expects Romo to start this Sunday.
“I’m anticipating him playing,” Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News. “I have no reason to think that he won’t. Anytime he can play, we want him to play. We’re a better team, to be trite, with him playing. There’s no such thing as holding him out and foregoing the potential chance that we win.”
Jones also said that he thinks Romo will play for five more years, an opinion that’s a bit harder to agree with than the one that has Romo in the lineup this weekend.