National Football League star Dez Bryant once raced a horse (and lost)

He has twice as many legs as Dez Bryant.

Dez Bryant has been battling foot and ankle injuries all week, and after missing a second day of practice, his playing status is clouded heading into Sunday’s National Football League matchup against the Buffalo Bills.

Bryant didn’t participate in practice this week because of foot and ankle injuries and was listed as doubtful on the team’s injury report.

Also listed as questionable for the Cowboys is wide receiver Cole Beasley, so new starter Kellen Moore could be without two of his best weapons on the outside.

Cowboys brass feels that Bryant has had an off-season because he missed offseason workouts in a contract dispute, and then was limited much of training camp with a hamstring injury. He’s yet to play 16 games in a season, has struggled mightily in coverage at times and has never had a multi-interception campaign.

The sixth-year player has career lows with 31 catches for 401 yards and three touchdowns in nine games. But on Sunday, after his Cowboys fell to 4-11, on pace for their worst record since at least 2002, when they were 5-11, or possibly 1989 when the franchise managed just one win, he was quiet. “Claiborne missed two games last month with a similar injury and sat out last week”™s game against the Jets with another hamstring injury. There is no question, that this is definitely a season that the Cowboys and Bryant want to finish and move on to 2016 as fast as possible.