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Two injured players and what role they may play in 2025.
7) Expectations for Diggs & Overshown this season?
Mickey: These are more the hopes than “expectations” for two players coming off complex knee surgeries. The hope for Trevon Diggs, who has chosen to do his rehabilitation apart from the Cowboys trainers is being ready to start the season on time. There is no guarantee of that. Now the Cowboys training staff has been monitoring his rehab progress from afar, and did work with him during the three-day minicamp, but chances are Diggs will begin training camp on PUP just so they can continue working with him to better monitor his progress firsthand. The Cowboys must cover themselves for any potential early season absence. As for DeMarvion Overshown, who is rehabbing with the team training staff, and while there is optimism over his progress, the realistic hope is that the third-year linebacker can resume playing around Thanksgiving, though no timeline is set. Any contribution from Overshown will be considered a bonus.
Patrik: It’s not the same for both, I’ll tell you that much. That’s because of the timing and type of injury, allowing for an earlier potential timeline for return for Diggs. There’s at least a slight possibility Diggs could be ready at the start of training camp but, more realistically, before camp breaks in mid-August to return to Dallas; and that could keep him from starting the season on the PUP (physically unable to perform) list and missing any games from the outset. Overshown is moving around well nowadays but has more hurdles to overcome than does Diggs, so it seems a foregone conclusion the superstar in the making will miss games to start the 2025 campaign — though he fully expects to be on the field several games before the regular season concludes. As for their level of play when they eventually return? That’s impossible to calculate, to be honest. One on hand, you should allow some grace for any player returning from a season-ending knee injury but, on the other hand, we’ve now seen Overshown fly out of the gate swiftly when he returned in 2024 from a torn ACL in his other knee. Diggs is more difficult to predict, because it’ll depend on how confident he feels with his knee this time around, but given the fact the Cowboys are currently in dire straits as far as figuring out the CB position, there is a ton of pressure on the record-setting All-Pro to get back to that version of himself ... and pronto.
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