Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans inactives revealed ahead of MNF

The Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans have released their inactives for the Week 11 Monday Night Football game. The seven Cowboys players who will not suit up on Monday night are CB Daron Bland, WR Jalen Brooks, LB Damone Clark, DE K.J. Henry, CB Jourdan Lewis, FB Hunter Luepke and OL Matt Waletzko.

The six Texans players who will not play tonight are DE Will Anderson, DT Folorunso Fatukasi, OL Blake Fisher, LB Jamal Hill, CB Kamari Lassiter and WR Steven Sims.

Cowboys fans have to be happy to see CeeDee Lamb not on the inactive list. On Saturday, Lamb was a limited participant due to a back injury, but Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said he was not worried about it.

“He had something pop up in a 7-on-7 drill,” McCarthy said, per NFL.com. “We’ll look at him [on Sunday], but I’m not of high concern.”

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Even with Lamb active, the Cowboys are going to have a tough time taking down the Texans who have a two-game lead in the AFC South. And with the Texans coming into the game on a two-game losing streak, they would love nothing more to get back on track against their in-state rival who has a 3-6 record.

“It’s the NFL,” Cowboys QB Cooper Rush said last week, per the team’s official website. “You’re going to win. You’re going to lose, and get your butt smacked sometimes, and the beauty is that it’s right back to us the next week. You don’t have to wait a whole year. You don’t have to do all that. It’s right here, right in front of you and it doesn’t really allow you to dwell on the last game as much. And so that’s kind of what we’re doing.”

When it comes to the Texans’ injuries, they got some good news as wide receiver Nico Collins returns to the lineup. Collins missed the last five games with a hamstring injury, and the Texans were 4-1 when he was active. In those five games, Collins caught 32 passes for 567 yards and three touchdowns.