Tony Romo, who broke his left collarbone on Oct. 25, has done all the prescribed rehabilitation work and kept the rest of his body in shape during recovery. He goes to all the Cowboys’ meetings and watches games from the sideline. And on Monday, Romo was back on the Cowboys’ practice field throwing soft passes during warm-ups. Romo has lobbed balls on the field before each of the past two games, but this is the first time he was seen throwing to teammates during the portion of practice open to the media.
“The mindset we have as an organization is to get him as healthy as we can as quickly as we can,” interim coach Jason Garrett said. “He has his mindset to come back as quickly as he can.” Romo has a target date for return set on the second-to-last game, Dec. 25 at the Cardinals. The Cowboys have made a return possible by not putting Romo on injured reserve. The collarbone did not require surgery, just rest and rehab.
The Cowboys were 1-6 coming out of the game during which Romo was injured. Backup Jon Kitna has gone 2-2 and put up remarkably similar numbers.
