FRISCO, Texas — Contemporary off the Dallas Cowboys’ finest defensive efficiency of the 2025 season in a 44-22 win over the Washington Commanders in Week 7, proprietor and normal supervisor Jerry Jones promised reinforcements had been on the way in which.
“We bought an opportunity to evolve into the sort of staff that our followers deserve,” Jones stated after the sport.
That wasn’t merely Jones attempting to stir the pot. Electrifying Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown tweeted “T-21” on Monday, indicating that his 21-day follow window — which supplies groups three weeks to resolve whether or not to activate a participant or transfer him to season-ending injured reserve — had opened. That timeline suggests Overshown may return after the staff’s Week 10 bye for Week 11 on the Las Vegas Raiders on “Monday Evening Soccer.”
Overshown tore his ACL for the second time in his profession on Thanksgiving final season. Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer confirmed that Overshown’s window had opened, together with these for third-round rookie cornerback Shavon Revel Jr. (knee) and beginning middle Cooper Beebe (ankle). Broad receiver Jonathan Mingo (knee) will likely be activated this week from injured reserve. Beebe has been working within the rehab group at Dallas follow the previous few weeks together with Overshown and Revel.
“Do not predict they’re all enjoying, however once more, we’re excited to get these guys again. They’ve labored so arduous. Demo [Overshown] and Von [Revel] and actually all the blokes have labored so arduous to get again that I am excited to get them on the market. However we’ll be good, and we’ll ramp them up and see how they do”
This is the outlook for Overshown and Revel this season, plus an replace on defensive sort out Kenny Clark, who suffered an elbow damage on Sunday.
Overshown is working his manner again from his second main knee damage after tearing his ACL within the 2023 preseason as a rookie. He is forward of schedule in his rehab after saying throughout organized staff actions that his goal return date was Thanksgiving. Schottenheimer stated he is been impressed by Overshown’s progress on the psychological facet throughout his restoration.
“I feel how a lot he is been round [defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus] ‘Flus and the way he sits proper in entrance of the conferences. As I have been sitting within the [defensive] conferences, he sits proper in entrance, and he is bought sun shades on, which is sort of cool. I am unable to pull that off. I attempt,” Schottenheimer stated.
“He is intent. You hear him desirous to reply all of the questions after they’re asking one other man. You see him sort of mouthing the reply. I feel it is the understanding of he is aware of the bodily half goes to handle itself, however mentally and understanding the system and the calls: closed left, rock logs and all of the various things that we do. The checks must make versus sure formations, man, he is all into that. So I feel as you mature as a participant you perceive that it is not simply the motion expertise and the power to sort out and run guys down. It is the psychological facet. It is a chess match, and I feel he is gotten older and wiser. I feel he is actually attacking the play.”
Clark suffered an elbow damage on a three-yard landing run by Commanders working again Chris Rodriguez Jr. with 2:39 left within the third quarter. He was formally listed as questionable however returned with 11:13 remaining within the fourth. Clark generated 5 quarterback pressures on Sunday, tying his 2025 season excessive. His 23 pressures lead the Cowboys this yr.
“I feel he’ll be good,” Schottenheimer stated of Clark. “He is robust as nails, and I believed he did a extremely good job yesterday affecting the quarterback from a pass-rush standpoint too. The push that he and Osa [Odighizuwa] bought within the center was good to see.”
Even after Dallas’ finest defensive outing of the yr towards Washington, the Cowboys nonetheless rank final within the NFL in cross protection, permitting 260.3 yards per recreation. Getting Revel again can solely assist Eberflus’ maligned secondary.
“You have simply seen it during the last couple of weeks working with [director of rehab] Britt [Brown] — you’ve got seen the boldness and the change of course within the issues that he is doing, which now makes us very comfy opening his window and letting him go on the market and play soccer, which he likes to do,” Schottenheimer stated. “Once more, it’s going to be principally scout-team stuff most likely this week. Let him run round and chase CeeDee and George and people guys round, see how he does. He’ll make errors, however I am fairly certain that he is actually, actually good at soccer too. … I am happy with him.”
Dallas has been desirous to get its third-round choose on the sector given the attrition at cornerback this season, particularly with Professional Bowl nook Trevon Diggs having suffered a concussion. There’s loads of pleasure across the constructing for when Revel lastly fits up.
“The scale [6-foot-1, 194 pounds] and the athleticism jumped off the movie in faculty. I feel that, once more, he has the traits that we love in corners: they’ve size, they’ve aggressive spirit, issues like that,” Schottenheimer stated. “I do not need to go too far excessive in my reward for Von as a result of it may be just a little little bit of a course of. I am excited to get him on the market on the grass, working round and chasing round some fairly good receivers.”
