{"id":288066,"date":"2025-08-14T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:23:10","slug":"former-patriots-quarterback-to-start-preseason-game-amid-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/288066\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Patriots Quarterback To Start Preseason Game Amid Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys quarterback Joe Milton III suffered an <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/08\/former-patriots-quarterback-reacts-to-elbow-injury-in-uneven-preseason-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elbow injury<\/a> during the team\u2019s preseason opener against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said on Thursday, however, that the former New England Patriots signal-caller has recovered enough and will be back under center for Dallas\u2019 preseason contest vs. the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrian Schottenheimer said Joe Milton will start Saturday preseason game against Baltimore and Tyler Booker will make his preseason debut,\u201d Calvin Watkins of The Dallas Morning News posted on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brian Schottenheimer said Joe Milton will start Saturday preseason game against Baltimore and Tyler Booker will make his preseason debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Calvin Watkins (@calvinwatkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinwatkins\/status\/1956041283254018257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Patriots\u2019 2024 sixth-round draft pick <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/08\/what-mike-vrabel-said-about-joe-milton-after-cowboys-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went 17-for-29<\/a> for 143 passing yards, one touchdown and one interception during the contest against the Rams. Milton III added five carries for 22 yards before departing with the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old played in just one regular season game with the Patriots, going 22-for-29 for 241 passing yards and one touchdown in Week 18 vs. the Buffalo Bills and adding 10 rushing attempts for 16 yards and one score.<\/p>\n<p>Milton III was traded along with a seventh-round pick to the Cowboys in April in exchange for a fifth-round pick. The Patriots then subsequently traded that pick to the Detroit Lions for a sixth-round pick (which ended up being kicker Andres Borregales) and a seventh-rounder (running back Brashard Smith).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>New England subsequently moved Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs for a pair of seventh-round picks (long-snapper Julian Ashby and cornerback Kobee Minor).<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys quarterback Joe Milton III suffered an elbow injury during the team\u2019s preseason opener against the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,5646,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-288066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-joe-milton-iii","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115028518781974078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}