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Cowboys Injury Report: Preparations for the NFC Championship Round

An update on the when various injured Cowboys should be ready to return to the field.

Why are you here? Are you unaware that the Dallas Cowboys didn’t make the playoffs? They don’t even have a head coach at the moment… Come on, man. I know it was a difficult year, but if you checked out in October I know you didn’t just resurface thinking that the club turned things around and made it farther than they have in 33 years. Did you?

Yikes.

Okay, because we’re friends, here’s an update on the high-visibility Cowboys who had season-ending injuries.

QB Dak Prescott, hamstring: Prescott’s recovery is ongoing, but he is expected to be ready for OTAs.

DE Sam Williams, ACL: Williams was hurt in training camp, which means he will miss OTAs but should be able to participate in at least a portion of 2025 camp if there are no setbacks.

DE DeMarcus Lawrence, foot: There was speculation that Lawrence might return at the end of 2024, which leads to speculation the free agent will be on some team’s field for OTAs in 2025.

LB DeMarvion Overshown, ACL, MCL, PCL: Overshown’s injury was catastrophic and it was first thought he would likely miss all of 2025, but after surgery there was some hope he could return in the midst of the regular season.

CB Trevon Diggs, articular cartilage: Diggs’ knee injury robbed him of the back end of the season and is reported to keep him out of the lineup through the offseason schedule and training camp, with a hopeful return by the start of the regular season.

OG Zack Martin, Ankle: Martin is a nine-time Pro Bowler and contemplated retirement prior to the 2023 season. As a free agent, he might sit out the spring and wait to sign with a team until later in the year, if at all. That might not have anything to do with his ankle.

Sights and sounds from first half as Eagles hold a 24-7 lead over the Cowboys

Sights and sounds from first half as Eagles hold a 24-7 lead over the Cowboys

It was another disastrous first quarter, but the Eagles’ defense found their footing, and Kenny Pickett discovered a connection with DeVonta Smith. Buoyed by two C.J. Gardner-Johnson interceptions, Philadelphia found their rhythm and held a 24-7 lead over the Cowboys in the first half.

An Eagles win Locks up the NFC East and the No. 2 seed in the conference while allowing Jalen Hurts another week to recover from his concussion.

With the second half set to begin, here are ten takeaways from the first half.

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Parsons calls out NFL RB’s Dallas slander, peels curtain on why he’s mad at Cowboys inactivity

In responding to Detroit’s Jahmyr Gibbs’ slander of Dallas, did Parsons reveal a different set of priorities than the talented running back?

Everyone likes to kick a team when they’re down, apparently. In his latest edition of his podcast on Bleacher Report, Dallas Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons talks to regular guest Trevon Diggs about a shot levied at their organization last week. Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs took the opportunity to speak down on the Dallas franchise in a recent interview with Kay Adams.

Speaking about the 2023 draft process, the University of Alabama product spoke to how the one thing he wanted to avoid was going to a city where he’d play in the cold. Then he threw what seemed like an unprovoked shot at the Cowboys organization. Dallas apparently had shown interest in the talented back and Gibbs turned his nose up, stating he’d “be so sick… I’d be hot,” if he ended up in Dallas.

Parsons — who has let it be known he wants to re-sign with the Dallas Cowboys this offseason and avoid ever hitting free agency — and Diggs, who signed a big deal two years ago, have unique perspective.

While Gibbs is enjoying tremendous team success in his two years with Detroit, they think it’s untrue any player wouldn’t enjoy their time in Dallas.

“Bluffing,” says Diggs.

“I’ll be honest with you man. I really like the Lions. I like everything they stand for with Dan Campbell, they’re play style. But bro, everyone wants to come play for America’s Team. We don’t gotta get on the media and start cappin’ (lying), how many people tell Jerry ‘come get me’. We’re not even going to throw names out there…

It’s a tax-free state. You’re going to get more marketing dollars than you ever had – in one year – than you ever had. And then the running back success that we’ve had in Dallas…”

Naming illustrious running back careers such as Emmitt Smith, DeMarco Murray, Tony Dorsett and Ezekiel Elliott that have been forged in Dallas, the two speak on how many “Tier 1 players” beg them to tell Jerry Jones to come get them, and it sheds some light on Parsons’ frustrations at the lack of Cowboys activity in free agency.

If he’s hearing from star players directly they’d want to join Dallas yet sees no action from the front office, that sets the foundation for some of Parsons’ public statements.

“We pay running backs, too,” Parsons quipped.

Parsons is long established as one of the NFL’s premiere players. On several occasions he’s made public statements of jealousy over watching other teams’ activity on the free agent market while Dallas sits idle. Now finishing up his fourth season in the league, he’s hinted that he’s even willing to take less on his next contract if Jerry Jones would spend it on bringing in talent from the outside.

One interesting takeaway though, is that Parsons and Diggs are speaking about the financial ramifications of being on the Cowboys. Meanwhile Gibbs went to the NFC Championship game in 2023 and the Lions are the current No.1 seed in the NFC with the playoffs less than two weeks away.

Perhaps he has a different set of priorities.

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons reveals recent conversation with Commanders’ Dan Quinn

Micah Parsons reveals a recent conversation with Dan Quinn.

Dallas Cowboys superstar Micah Parsons is a huge fan of Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn. Parsons expressed his sadness when the Commanders hired Quinn away from the Cowboys in the offseason but made it clear he would always root for his former coach.

In the first three seasons of his NFL career, with Quinn as his defensive coordinator, Parsons recorded 40.5 sacks, 51 tackles for loss, and seven forced fumbles. Their bond goes beyond the field, though, as Parsons considered Quinn a role model away from it.

The Commanders and Cowboys first met this season in Week 12, in a wild game where Parsons’ Cowboys upset Washington. Two weeks later, after Dallas had won two consecutive games, it lost a heartbreaker to the Cincinnati Bengals, falling to 5-8 and virtually ending any playoff hopes.

An upset Parsons left the field as time ran off the clock instead of greeting Cincinnati players as is customary across the NFL. Parsons was criticized but explained that it was due to his competitive spirit.

On the latest episode of his podcast, “The Edge,” Parsons said he received a call from Quinn, who was checking on him after such a tough loss.

“Talking to Dan, you know Dan’s our guy, Dan’s like an uncle to me, and he saw my comments about the podcast,” Parsons told teammate Trevon Diggs. “He called after the Bengals’ loss, actually, just checking on me and my mental space, just making sure I was OK.”

Then the talk turned to Quinn’s quarterback, rookie Jayden Daniels.

“I saw what your quarterback is capable of; I watched him in that Bears’ game, I watched him against us, his composure when it matters the most; he has it, I see it. Like, he’s fearless. He doesn’t shy from the moment.”

Diggs then weighs in on Daniels.

“He know(s) he’s nice,” Diggs said. “He know he the one. You need that confidence, especially in the NFL. If you know that you nice, know that you’re the one, can’t nobody stop you from doing anything you want to do. You’re gonna have your way.”

And for those Philadelphia fans complaining about injuries when Daniels carved them up for five touchdowns in a Washington win last week, Parsons was having none of it.

Parsons’ relationship with Quinn will continue to excite Washington fans about the possibility of him joining the Commanders when his contract is up. Don’t get too excited: Parsons isn’t going anywhere, especially to Washington.

It’s a different time when other players talk so glowingly of the Commanders’ quarterback.

You can see Parsons’ comments on Quinn and Daniels around the 12-minute mark of the latest episode of “The Edge.”

 

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

Here’s the latest status for the Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs for Week 16 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | From @KDDrummondNFL

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs has had a rough couple of seasons. This 2024 season has been particularly trying, as he returned from missing almost all of 2023 due to an ACL tear suffered prior to Week 3. After an extensive rehabilitation process, the 2021 All-Pro was able to return for the first part of this season. However, as is often the case with speed-dependent positions, returning to top form after an ACL injury was a bit elusive.

Diggs was decent, but he wasn’t what fans remembered from the 2020 through 2022 years. The frustration of his and the team’s sluggish start boiled over after a loss to the San Francisco 49ers, when he came out the locker room to confront a media member for a derogatory tweet made during the contest. It was a bad look that eventually Diggs made amends for, but that was a precursor to more problems.

Diggs suffered a calf tear prior to Week 9 and though he played a strong Week 11 game against Philadelphia, he missed the following two contests just when secondary mate DaRon Bland returned from offseason foot surgery. Diggs would return in Week 14, but it appears that is the last action he will see for some time.

Diggs has now been placed on IR for a knee injury that will require surgery. It is a significant surgery in which they will use a bone graft to help repair the cartilage in the knee that had the torn ACL and it could cause him to miss most or all of the 2025 season as well.

Report: Surgery for Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs to include bone graft, increasing rehab time

From @ToddBrock24f7: The procedure should stimulate growth and strength, but it requires a longer recovery and could cost Diggs a big chunk of the 2025 season.

More details are coming out about the latest injury suffered by Trevon Diggs, but what’s becoming increasingly clear is that the Cowboys will be without their star cornerback for a long time.

The surgery to repair his left knee will require a bone graft to address cartilage damage, according to multiple sources, and it will prolong his recovery time even further than originally anticipated.

While the team had been hopeful that the two-time Pro Bowler would be able to return to action around the start of the 2025 regular season, this latest news makes that timetable extraordinarily unlikely.

“I hope it’s definitely sooner,” Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said Friday, per ProFootballTalk. “But this is a big recovery for Trevon. It’s way too early for me to speculate on that.”

The injury reportedly occurred during the team’s Week 14 game against Cincinnati. Diggs tore the ACL in the same knee early in the 2023 season and missed 15 outings, but this injury is said to be a different issue.

The former second-round draft pick played every snap of the 27-20 loss and even began the next week of practice on a limited basis before consultation with the Cowboys medical staff determined that he should sit out the Week 15 trip to Charlotte to face the Panthers.

“He was having to play with fluid in his knee,” Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones said last week. “It’s certainly a very legitimate injury that’s gonna take him some time to recover from.”

Initial estimates put his rehab at “up to eight months,” but longtime Cowboys insider Clarence Hill Jr. of AllCity DLLS first posited that Diggs “could possibly miss most of next season.”

News of a planned bone graft lends considerable weight to that more conservative outlook.

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As described by David Moore of the Dallas Morning News, “this is where a new piece of bone is inserted into the damaged area in the same way a pothole is repaired or a gap in a joint is caulked.”

The procedure necessitates a longer recovery time than other options, but it offers a better chance at stimulating growth and strengthening the area.

Wide receiver Noah Brown underwent a similar procedure when he was with the Cowboys, causing him to miss the entire 2019 season.

At the conclusion of the 2024 regular season, Diggs will have played in just 13 of the Cowboys’ last 35 games, including playoffs. And now a sizable chunk of next year’s 17 is also in serious jeopardy.

Diggs, 26, has a $9 million base salary for 2025 that is guaranteed in case of injury.

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Report: Cowboys could be without CB Trevon Diggs for quite some time

From @ToddBrock24f7: Diggs will have surgery to repair cartilage in his left knee, Stephen Jones is eyeing Week 1 for his return, but one insider isn’t so sure.

Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs has seen his season end early for the second year in a row due to a knee injury. And although the team is hopeful that it won’t impact his 2025 season, the two-time Pro Bowler could be cutting it close, and that’s the best-case scenario.

Diggs will undergo surgery to repair his left knee after suffering an injury in the team’s Week 14 loss to Cincinnati, the Cowboys announced over the weekend. The issue is reportedly with his articular cartilage, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, and apparently separate from the knee ailment that kept him out of Weeks 12 and 13.

“This is something that occurred during the [Week 14] game,” head coach Mike McCarthy confirmed in his postgame press conference after the team’s 30-14 win over the Panthers.

Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones elaborated on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan on Monday, saying he did not expect Diggs to be ready for training camp next summer and adding, “but I think his timeline will be right at the start of the season.”

Diggs had played every defensive snap of the Monday night meeting with the Bengals and then consulted with the Cowboys’ medical staff during the week. After missing multiple practices and some testing, the decision was made to keep Diggs home from the trip to Charlotte and proceed with plans for surgery.

“He was having to play with fluid in his knee. He was out there doing everything he can because he wants to play, he wants to compete, he wants to contribute,” Jones said of the 26-year-old Diggs.

“It’s certainly a very legitimate injury that’s gonna take him some time to recover from. We got a vision that we can get him ready to do next year.”

In his Monday post to X, Rapoport put the recovery time at “up to eight months.”

But not everyone is ready to automatically pencil Diggs in for Week 1 next fall.

The former second-round draft pick missed most of the 2023 season with an ACL tear in his right knee. Though he was able to be in the starting lineup for that season opener, there are rumblings now that the organization was dissatisfied with the way he approached the rehab stint.

“This is a serious knee injury,” explained longtime insider Clarence Hill Jr. of AllCity DLLS. “He could possibly miss most of next season.”

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Given the financial ramifications of his $97 million contract extension signed in July of 2023 and the return on that investment the team is getting on the field, expect Diggs’s status to be a major storyline for the coming offseason.

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Cowboys to lose CB Trevon Diggs for remainder of 2024 season

From @ToddBrock24f7: Diggs missed 15 games last season to an ACL tear. His latest injury is said to be “significant” but unrelated to that earlier one.

The Cowboys’ unceremonious exit to the 2024 season has been long, painful, and gradual. In fact, the team’s top players have been dropping out here and there, one at a time since before Week 1.

Now, another one bites the dust.

Cornerback Trevon Diggs, already ruled out of Sunday’s game versus the Carolina Panthers, is now reportedly facing knee surgery and will miss the remainder of the season.

The news was first reported by Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer, who posted the development to X on Saturday, shortly after it had been revealed that Diggs- who had been listed as questionable- would not be traveling with his teammates to Charlotte for their Week 15 matchup.

Diggs had just returned from a two-game absence to appear in Monday night’s date with Cincinnati, playing every defensive snap in the 27-20 loss.

It’s unclear if Diggs re-aggravated that injury or suffered an entirely new one, but an MRI this week on Diggs’s still-problematic left knee showed damage that would require surgery following the season. The decision has been made that the end of his season is now.

WFAA’s Ed Werder reports that, per his source, the injury to Diggs’s knee is “significant,” though specifics have not been made public.

Diggs played just two games in 2023 before an ACL tear- also in the left knee- ended that season, too. When the 2024 campaign finally ends for the Cowboys, the former second-round draft pick out of Alabama will have appeared in only 13 of their last 34 regular-season contests.

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Todd Archer of ESPN cites his own source as saying that this most recent issue “is not related to” the 2023 ACL repair.

Diggs is now the fifth Cowboys’ Pro Bowler to be on injured reserve this season, joining Dak Prescott, Zack Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, and DaRon Bland. Eight other Cowboys are currently on IR, too.

Prescott and Martin have already seen their seasons come to a premature end due to injury, as have Sam Williams, John Stephens Jr., Markquese Bell, and DeMarvion Overshown.

And now, Diggs.

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Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs surprises local high school QB with national award

From @ToddBrock24f7: The former Alabama star presented Duncanville QB and Crimson Tide commit Keelon Russell with the Gatorade National Player of the Year Award.

A talented high school quarterback from the Dallas-Fort Worth area is in the midst of what could be a third straight championship run with an eye toward joining the Alabama Crimson Tide next fall.

So when he was chosen this week to receive one of the country’s top honors, it was only fitting to have Trevon Diggs deliver the news.

The Cowboys cornerback and Alabama alum showed up in Duncanville on Tuesday to surprise Keelon Russell with the trophy naming him the 2024-25 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year.

Leading the Duncanville Panthers to a 13-0 mark so far this year, Russell has put up 3,874 passing yards and a staggering 54 touchdowns, but the National Honor Society member also carries a 3.4 GPA and is a regular volunteer in the community with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Now the 40th Gatorade Player of the Year, Russell’s name will be alongside legends like Pro Football Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Emmitt Smith, who were also once honored with the prize. In all, six winners of the award have gone on to become first-round draft picks in the NFL.

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“The Gatorade Player of the Year Program has a 40-year history of recognizing young athletes on their journey to greatness,” said Gatorade’s Anuj Bhasin. “Russell’s accomplishments have earned him a spot on the trophy alongside so many iconic athletes, and we can’t wait to see the legacy he will leave behind.”

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He may be the No. 2-ranked recruit in the nation, but Russell and Duncanville still have unfinished business to attend to.

The undefeated Panthers are set to play in the 6A Division I state semifinals on Saturday. Listed by MaxPreps as the No. 3 high school team in the country and the top-ranked team in Texas, they’ll square off against 14-0 North Crowley (ranked 9th in the nation) in a legitimate clash of titans.

“This is a great opportunity,” Diggs told the Panthers team after their practice on Tuesday. “You worked hard, for sure. Putting your head down, working hard, you see where it got you. I just want you to keep that same mindset, especially going into college.”

Diggs had words of encouragement for Russell, too, hinting that one Sunday in the not-too-distant future, he may be trying to intercept some of the youngster’s passes on an NFL field.

“You’re a great player, that’s a great award,” Diggs told him. “You’re going to go far. I’m going to see you soon.”

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Commanders-Cowboys inactives: Who’s in, who’s out for Week 12

Which players are in for the Commanders against the Cowboys? And who is out? Inactive list is here.

The Washington Commanders released their inactive list ahead of Sunday’s showdown against the Dallas Cowboys and there were no surprises.

All three of Washington’s top offensive tackles are healthy and active. Kicker Austin Seibert is also back after missing the previous two games. Cornerback Emmanuel Forbes is once again a healthy scratch.

Here is the complete inactive list:

  • CB Emmanuel Forbes
  • CB Marshon Lattimore
  • G Chris Paul
  • QB Jeff Driskel
  • LB Dominique Hampton

Lattimore remains inactive as he recovers from a hamstring. Head coach Dan Quinn said last week he was getting closer to making his Washington debut.

The Cowboys will be without numerous starters for this game. They placed quarterback Dak Prescott on season-ending injured reserve last week. Future Hall of Fame guard Zack Martin, cornerback Trevon Diggs, wide receiver Brandin Cooks, guard Tyler Smith and tight end Jake Ferguson are those out for Dallas. Cooks remains on IR, but was expected to be activated.

Here is Dallas’ complete inactive list:

  • G Zack Martin
  • G Tyler Smith
  • RB Deuce Vaughn
  • CB Trevon Diggs
  • CB Caelen Carson
  • DE Tyrus Wheat
  • TE Jake Ferguson