By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-05 17:16:39 | Updated at 2025-01-07 08:37:12
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The Dallas Cowboys have announced that Trey Lance will start Sunday's final game of the NFL season.
Lance, a former first-round pick with the San Francisco 49ers, is yet to start for the Cowboys.
But the game against the Washington Commanders will be Lance's first regular season start wince Week 2 of the 2022 season.
Cowboys franchise quarterback Dak Prescott was ruled out for the season in Week 9 because of a torn hamstring.
Cooper Rush has been playing in Prescott's absence but he will serve as the backup to Lance in Week 18.
The Cowboys (7-9) are headed for an offseason of uncertainty with coach Mike McCarthy on an expiring contract.
The Cowboys have announced that Trey Lance will start Sunday's last game of the NFL season
After Prescott's season-ending hamstring injury, Dallas found a way to win four of five games to keep things from spiraling out of control.
But McCarthy, a Super Bowl winner with Green Bay, hasn't been able to get the Cowboys past the divisional round of the playoffs during his tenure in Dallas.
The same was true for the five coaches before him, going all the way back to the last of the storied franchise's five Super Bowl titles to cap the 1995 season.
McCarthy, who won his Super Bowl with the Packers at the home of the Cowboys after the 2010 season, was asked if he had thought about Sunday's game possibly being his last for Dallas.
'I´ll be honest with you, I go to the stadium much earlier this time in my career than I used to,' the 61-year-old said.
'I won a Super Bowl in that home locker room at AT&T Stadium. So I have a very strong emotional attachment that it hits me every time I walk in there and every time I walk out. I´m not thinking about it right now, but, yeah, I´m definitely in tune with that.'
