The Dallas Cowboys are anticipating Anthony Hitchens suffered a torn ACL in Saturday's preseason game.

Hitchens suffered the injury with 19 seconds left in the first half. Hitchens will likely require surgery and miss the entire 2017 season.

Hitchens is the Cowboys' starting middle linebacker.

"I don't want to go there," said Jerry Jones when asked if Hitchens suffered a torn ACL. "All I know, though, is I don't like the way it sounds. They'll take a look at it again tomorrow. If it were going to put him down, it'd be an ACL tear."