One of the emerging stars on an otherwise mediocre Cowboys defense suffered the trifecta of knee injuries. DeMarvion Overshown’s season has been cut short in one of the worst ways possible. His immediate future and his availability for 2025 is in jeopardy.
The rising Dallas Cowboys star suffered tears to the ACL, MCL and PCL in his right knee during Monday night’ 27-20 loss at home against the Cincinnati Bengals, ESPN’s Todd Archer reports. Archer’s report follows up a statement from Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones confirming that Overshown will undergo season-ending surgery later this week.
“I don’t know at this time the time-date on his rehab,” Jones said earlier Tuesday, “but I just can’t tell you how bad I feel for him because he’s just been through that mental and physical rehab on his other knee. … It’s the toughest time for a player. And we all see the loss and know what it’s going to mean for us in our remaining four games. Bottom line is it’s really sad that he’s having to have this surgery for him as an individual and obviously us as a team.”
The news is a heart wrenching and devastating blow to Overshown, who has exploded onto the scene as a rising star during his first healthy NFL season. A second-year linebacker selected in the third round of the 2023 draft out of the University of Texas, Overshown was forced to sit out his entire rookie campaign after tearing the ACL in his left knee.
Embed from Getty ImagesHe was able to bounce back in time for the kickoff of the 2024 season and has shown himself to be and developed into one of the Cowboys’ most reliable and valuable players. He is second on the roster with 90 tackles and is one of the team’s best playmakers on defense.
In 13 games, including 12 starts, he has gotten home to the quarterback five times, had eight tackles for loss, five quarterback hits, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and a pick he returned to the house, against their division rival New York Giants on Thanksgiving.
Overshown’s injury took place during the third quarter of Dallas’ 27-20 loss to the Bengals. His right leg got trapped and pinned underneath a pile of players during a tackle.
Overshown needed assistance off the field and could hardly bear any weight on the leg. He was immediately ruled out for the game.
Coach Mike McCarthy said after the game that the injury was “of a serious nature” and that “it’s not good.”
“I think the whole sideline felt that because it didn’t look good,” McCarthy said. “It definitely hit a lot of the guys.”
Edge rusher Micah Parsons was very emotional and could not hold back tears after the game when discussing what happened to Overshown.
“I cried,” he said. “It’s like my little bro, bro. He doesn’t deserve that either. He really don’t. Just to understand what he’s going to go through and to be there for him physically, mentally. It’s just so challenging because of the year he was having. I really just don’t think that’s fair either.”
“We’re praying for him because a lot of us, honestly, we’ve been injured,” cornerback Jourdan Lewis said. “We understand what he’s going through. We’re going to stay with him because we know he’s a heck of a football player.”
The Cowboys fell to 5-8 with the loss and remain well out of the NFC playoff picture.
