Cowboys tight end Luke Schoonmaker may be making his training camp debut sooner than expected.
Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones said Tuesday on 'The K&C Masterpiece' on 105.3 The Fan that Schoonmaker was making progress and could be nearing a return to practice.
"He's actually making a ton of progress. The best reports I've had on him have been from the last three days from Britt Brown (Cowboys director of rehabilitation)," Stephen Jones said. "He's doing a hell of a job. I actually think he'll be moving into practice here at the end of the week."
The Cowboys selected Schoonmaker in the second round of this past April's draft to be a vertical threat and a key pass blocker in the run game, but the Michigan product was surprisingly absent from the start of camp due to a partially torn plantar fascia.
In a recent interview with the Dallas Morning News, Schoonmaker said that he's "in a great place" and has been feeling "really good" while working with trainers off to the side of Cowboys practice.
“It’s a pain," said Schoonmaker. "Everybody says once it fully tears, it completely goes right away.”
