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Even a potential career-ending injury didn’t derail DeMarvion Overshown’s path back to the field.
FRISCO — At the beginning of another arduous journey, with a freshly reconstructed knee serving as a reminder of the road ahead, Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown felt determined. Yes, to recover from another significant injury, just as he did before he played his first NFL game. But also to go against the recommendations of those around him: doctors’ orders, conventional wisdom, and even his fiancée’s wishes.
As his mother, Felicia Williams, affectionately said: DeMarvion “was being a knucklehead. But, again, determined.”
Just as determined as he was to get back on the field.
Overshown tore three ligaments in his knee on Dec. 9. One person with the Cowboys described it as a potential career-ending injury. Instead, it proved to be just another setback in his story.
Initially, projections for Overshown to return to the field on Thanksgiving against the Kansas City Chiefs were looked at as optimistic. Overshown beat that mark by two games.
Overshown’s mother said he’s the type of person who will do whatever it takes to make something happen once he puts his mind to it, as he did days after his surgery.
Overshown had previously committed to being in Tyler, Texas — about 20 miles from his hometown of Arp — days before Christmas for a bike giveaway, and nothing was going to stop him. Not even surgery and the recommended recovery.
His fiancée, Alexis Babino, had one request when Overshown left for Tyler: be sure to sit and rest. If he had to do this, if he had to be there, then he could still be cautious on his leg. She remembers Overshown saying he would oblige her request.
“But that did not happen,” Babino said.
One video of Overshown standing next to a kid, crying in amazement at meeting Overshown, went viral. More photos circulated. Babino saw her fiancé standing in all of them.
“He fought through it. I know he was in pain,” Babino said, “but he fought through that pain. That tells you a lot about the type of person he is. He’s compassionate, he’s positive, he’s resilient, he’s faced so many adversities … and that just says a lot about his determination.”
Dallas needs the All-Pro to get back to himself during this current gauntlet.
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