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Is Trevon Diggs playing today? Injury news update for Cowboys CB

Here’s the latest status for the Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs for Week 9 vs the Atlanta Falcons. | From @KDDrummondNFL

Update: Trevon Diggs will in fact play on Sunday, he was not one of the inactives.

Trevon Diggs has had a trying week. Following last week’s frustrating loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the All-Pro cornerback came out the locker room to confront a media member of a tweet made during the contest. It was a bad look that eventually Diggs made amends for, but that wasn’t the end of Diggs’ time as the center of attention.

Diggs also added himself to a ridiculously long list of injured Cowboys when he missed practice on Wednesday with what ended up being identified as a calf tear. Then Diggs missed Thursday, and then Friday.  Duggs was given the game designation of questionable for Dallas’ Week 9 roadtrip to take on the Atlanta Falcons.

The Cowboys are now sitting under ,500, at 3-4 on the 2024 season, losers of two games in a row. The team came out of their bye week flat, and needed a fell-short fourth-quarter rally to make their game against the 49ers a respectable effort.

Now, that same group is traveling to Atlanta in to take on the Falcons and Kirk Cousins. Already missing all of their top edge rushers, the Cowboys have played all season without Diggs’ counterpart DaRon Bland and the last several weeks without his backup rookie Caelen Carson. With Bland out, stopping Cousins and the Falcons aerial attack without Diggs is probably too big of an ask.

Expecting a player who missed all three practices to play at all, much less at a high level, is asking for a lot.

Week 9 inactives will be announced approximately an hour and a half before kickoff.

Is Micah Parsons playing today? Injury news update for Cowboys edge rusher

Here’s the latest status for the Cowboys’ Micah Parsons for Week 9 vs the Atlanta Falcons.

The Cowboys are now sitting under ,500, at 3-4 on the 2024 season, losers of two games in a row. The team came out of their bye week flat, and needed a fell-short fourth-quarter rally to make their game against the San Francisco 49ers a respectable effort.

Now, that same group is traveling to Atlanta in Week 9 to take on the Falcons and Kirk Cousins. Cousins, coming off an Achilles injury that submarined his 2023 season, has never been much of an escape artist, but he’s even more stationary this season. Unfortunately, the Cowboys haven’t been able to muster much of a pass rush this season. They notched just one sack against Snn Francisco and have just eight in their last four games.

Will they fare any better? It would certainly help if Micah Parsons were able to return from injury and course-correct his slow start to the season. But unfortunately, Parsons won’t have the opportunity to impact this week’s game.

Parsons was ruled out for a fourth consecutive contest as he is still dealing with a high-ankle sprain that knocked him out of the team’s Week 4 win over the New York Giants.

Parsons did not practice all week, and with Dallas entering the meat of their 2024 schedule, it’s a significant blow to their desire to right the ship. The Cowboys will return to AT&T Stadium next week, where they are 0-3 on the season, to face division rival Philadelphia.

With DeMarcus Lawrence and Marshawn Kneeland both on returnable IR, along with the season-ending preseason loss of Sam Williams, the pass rush is lacking significant punch, made worse by the free agent defections of Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler in the offseason.