Cowboys draft pick on the shelf
02:15 AM CDT on Wednesday, May 31, 2006
By TODD ARCHER / The Dallas Morning News
IRVING – E.J. Whitley's season ended before it really began.
The offensive lineman out of Texas Tech, one of the Cowboys' two seventh-round picks, had surgery Tuesday on a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He was injured during a rookie minicamp this month.
"Jerry Jones told E.J. immediately after it happened that he thought it could be a positive, that he could use the off-season to learn and get acclimated and work in the weight room," Whitley's agent, Jeff Nalley, said.
The rookies signed injury protection waivers before the minicamp, meaning the Cowboys would negotiate a contract in good faith regardless of the severity of an injury. None of the Cowboys' draft picks is under contract. The club generally waits until July to begin talks with agents.
By TODD ARCHER / The Dallas Morning News
IRVING – E.J. Whitley's season ended before it really began.
The offensive lineman out of Texas Tech, one of the Cowboys' two seventh-round picks, had surgery Tuesday on a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He was injured during a rookie minicamp this month.
"Jerry Jones told E.J. immediately after it happened that he thought it could be a positive, that he could use the off-season to learn and get acclimated and work in the weight room," Whitley's agent, Jeff Nalley, said.
The rookies signed injury protection waivers before the minicamp, meaning the Cowboys would negotiate a contract in good faith regardless of the severity of an injury. None of the Cowboys' draft picks is under contract. The club generally waits until July to begin talks with agents.
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