FRISCO, Texas

Tony Romo stretched alongside Jason Witten early in practice for the Dallas Cowboys, just as they’ve done for most of the past 10 years.

Then the 36-year-old quarterback went off to run the scout team, and his trusty tight end joined the first-teamers along with rookie Dak Prescott, who has a seven-game winning streak filling in for Romo.

The Dallas starter for a decade, Romo was a full practice participant Wednesday for the first time since breaking a bone in his back in a preseason game in August, his fourth back injury in less than four years.

That didn’t change his spot

in the pecking order, which includes veteran Mark Sanchez, the backup to Prescott the first eight games. There’s no reason to change with Dallas (7-1) surging to the best record in the NFC.

“He’s champing at the bit,” coach Jason Garrett said . “But you know we’ll watch him today at practice and see how he does.”

Garrett said the starter usually gets almost all the reps with the first team in practice, and noted an exception the Cowboys made last week when Sanchez ran some situational stuff with the starters Friday.

The next step is determining when Romo will be active on game day, with the first opportunity Sunday at Pittsburgh (4-4).