Cowboys WR Michael Gallup Injury Update: 'I Couldn't Walk!'

"I got a couple of days under my belt. I was out there catching balls with Dak (Prescott).“It’s different. I feel springy again." - Cowboys receiver Michael Gallup.

FRISCO - Receiver Michael Gallup has from his very first day with the Dallas Cowboys exhibited a buoyant and bouncy personality.

But as of a year ago, there was one area of his life that didn't feature much "bounce.''

“Last year at this time,'' Gallup revealed this week, "I couldn’t walk.''

Oh.

That circumstance was of course the result of Gallup rehabbing to come back from the torn ACL he had suffered the year before. The Cowboys demonstrated faith in the player (and in their medical people) and nevertheless gave him a five-year, $62.5 million contract to stay in Dallas.

The payoff did not come in 2022 as Gallup concedes that he still felt knee soreness that causes him to move, and to play, slightly differently to compensate.

“You go out there, you want to play like you always play,” Gallup said. “You know how you’re supposed to play. That didn’t happen for me last year. I was thinking too much. My knee was feeling sore and it was just different.”

As a result, he posted a season in which he wasn't able to open the year healthy and totaled 39 receptions for 424 yards and four touchdowns. 

Gallup and the Cowboys think of him as a 1,000-receiving-yards kind of guy; in theory, that can happen again even as he enters 2023 as the "third starter'' alongside Pro Bowler CeeDee Lamb and trade get Brandin Cooks.

"We’re moving though (the process of working as a team),'' Gallup said as OTAs are about to commence here inside The Star. "I got a couple of days under my belt. I was out there catching balls with Dak (Prescott).

“It’s different. I feel springy again."

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