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After Sunday night’s victory over the Eagles, Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray had x-rays on his left hand and said he would be fine.

As it turns out, there will be a little bit of an interval before Murray is totally fine. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said on KRLD Monday that Murray has a broken bone in his hand and that he is having surgery on Monday to deal with the injury. Jones said that Murray has not been ruled out of the Week 16 home game against the Colts, which the Cowboys need to keep their one-game lead on the Eagles in the NFC East.

Jones didn’t specify the exact injury, but Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com reports that Murray broke the fourth metacarpal. That’s part of the ring finger and the Cowboys would appear to believe that there could be a way to protect Murray’s finger well enough for him to remain in the lineup.

We’ll see how that plays out, but losing Murray would be a blow. He had rough sledding on his way to 81 yards on 31 carries Sunday, but that’s just the third time he’s been under 100 yards this year and Murray’s ability to take on a heavy workload behind a strong offensive line has been a major part of Dallas’s offensive success this season.

Lance Dunbar and Joseph Randle are Murray’s backups on the 53-man roster. They’ve combined to carry the ball 60 times this season while Murray has had 351 attempts on the ground.