This may be a case where every week, a different Dallas defensive star takes center stage. On Sunday, in their first early-afternoon kickoff of the season, it was Trevon Diggs’ turn. Diggs came up with the big defensive stops on the final drive against the Bengals in Week 2. He came close to two interceptions before finally getting one on Daniel Jones in Week 3. And in Week 4, the First-Team All-Pro had his best game of the young season. Not only did he get another interception, but Diggs broke up two fourth-down passes, one in the end zone and the other to seal the game.
Combined with another strong game from the pass rush and another breakout performance by safety Donovan Wilson, the Cowboys were able to win their third straight game, 25-10, to improve to 3-1 on the season. Carson Wentz and the Washington Commanders fell to 1-3 on the season.
QB Cooper Rush got a new weapon, as Michael Gallup made his 2022 debut. Gallup caught the first touchdown of the game and then proceeded to give William Jackson III fits, drawing two pass interfence calls for 65 phantom yards. Combined with CeeDee Lamb’s strong performance (six receptions, 97 yards and a TD), and the passing game did just enough in a game where the Commanders’ defense stifled the Dallas run game.
Rush finished with 223 passing yards and 2 passing touchdowns for a 107.5 rating. Two bad passes were intercepted but defensive penalties negated both of them. Noah Brown also checked in with 61 receiving yards.
On defense, Diggs’ pick was matched by rookie corner Daron Bland, who filled in for Jourdan Lewis after the veteran hurt his groin in pre-game warmups. The Dallas defense harassed Wentz all day but only managed two sacks, although Wentz did incur two separate intentional grounding calls.
One of those was caused by Donovan Wilson, who also had eight tackles on the game, seven solo.
The Cowboys will now prepare to travel to Los Angeles to take on the Super Bowl champion Rams in Week 5.
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