Malik Davis

The calf is the whole problem right now. It was listed Out going back to week 18 of 2025, and he has been on IR since before week 3 of 2026, so he has missed every game this season through week 5 of 2026 and plays none while he sits there. Nothing new has surfaced either, no headline to suggest a return is close.

Before the injury, the case was thin anyway. Our preseason number had him down 7.6 points from the group of backs taken around pick 165.9, and last season backs that up: 4.1 points a game over 10 weeks in 2025, above the position's weekly median in only 3 of them, with a 21.4% snap share and just 8 red-zone touches all year. He never cleared 15 points in any of his 10 played weeks, and his worst was 0 back in week 7 of 2025. He is listed second among DAL running backs behind Javonte Williams, but 2025 showed a swing role at best, snap share swinging between 8% and 37% inside the season.

The 2024 season he did not play at all, 17 healthy weeks in street clothes, and in 2023 he got onto the field for exactly one game late in the year and finished with 0 points. Our projection for him this season was 40 points, and that is what you are holding while he cannot take a snap. We would release him and use the roster spot on a back who can actually take the field in week 6 of 2026. If someone ahead of him in Dallas goes down and he gets activated, revisit then, but that is a watch-list thought, not a roster spot.