Cowboys assistant Sharrif Floyd suffers medical incident on sideline during Jets matchup

Cowboys assistant defensive line coach Sharrif Floyd fainted on the sideline during the team’s Sunday afternoon matchup against the Jets. The incident provided a very scary moment for Dallas amid an otherwise smooth outing against New York in AT&T Stadium.

According to reports from the field, Floyd was able to walk off the field to the locker room after recovering from the fainting spell and making a stop in the medical tent.

The sideline scare also happened while the Cowboys were turning the heat up on the New York offense. Edge rusher Micah Parsons ripped the ball out of the ball-carrier’s arms and ran it back to the endzone before the refs ruled him down by contact after the snag.

May have been ruled down, but here for @MicahhParsons11's wheels 💨

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Sharrif Floyd began working with the Dallas Cowboys staff last training camp. He took over the role as assistant defensive line coach and quality control coach before the 2023 season.

He was a former first-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings in the 2013 NFL Draft. Floyd played his college football for the Florida Gators where he became a first-team All-SEC defensive tackle.

Coming out of George Washington High School (Philadelphia, PA), Floyd was one of the most highly-rated prospects in America in the 2010 cycle. According to the On3 Consensus Rankings, Floyd was rated as a five-star prospect and the No. 2 overall defensive line prospect in the country. He was a part of the Gators’ 2010 recruiting class, which was one of the most highly rated in college football recruiting history. He joined the likes of Ronald Powell, Dominique Easley, Matt Elam, and Josh Shaw, in earning five-star rankings for the class.