Cowboys hope Jaylon Smith back for playoffs

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Six months ago, Jaylon Smith was destined to be a top-5 pick in last week’s NFL Draft. But he suffered a serious knee injury in Notre Dame’s bowl game and the linebacker fell out of the first round altogether. But he didn’t have to wait long to hear his name called; the Cowboys selected Smith 34th overall, though with the understanding that he would almost certainly miss the 2016 season while he rehabbed his knee.

That was conventional wisdom, anyway. Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, who appears to be rebounding nicely from missing out on Paxton Lynch, said Thursday that “We will not IR” Smith.

This means that the plan isn’t to …

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