In what felt like a season filled with injuries to key players, Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown joined the list of the walking wounded after suffering a major knee injury during the team's Week 14 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Tearing the three major ligaments in your knee, the ACL, PCL, and MCL, on the same play is something players hope to only have nightmares about during their playing careers. Unfortunately for Overshown, this nightmare was his reality, and it happened so late in the season that it put his availability for the start of the 2025 campaign in question.
While Overshown isn't participating in OTAs this week, the Cowboys star did meet with the media on Friday and shared how well he feels his recovery is coming along. The former Texas Longhorns standout knows his return to the field will be a process, but he is confident in the fact that he'll return to being 100% healthy thanks to the work he has put into his rehab.
Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown (knee): “It really couldn’t be any better. Where I’m at in my rehab and my process is where I’m supposed to be plus some. I know it’s a process and something we’re not rushing just because I look good.
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When you consider that this is the second major knee injury Overshown has suffered since entering the NFL in 2023, listening to his doctors and not pushing his body too hard, too quickly is the best thing he can do to get himself back to the point where he can make meaningful contributions on the field.
Before his season-ending injury this past season, Overshown had appeared in 14 games for Dallas and put up the kind of numbers you'd expect from a player drafted higher than the third round, as he recorded 90 total tackles, five sacks, one forced fumble, one interception, and one touchdown scored. If he can get back to producing at that level, once he makes his return to the lineup, it will provide the Cowboys with a massive boost on that side of the ball.
With Kenneth Murray Jr. and Jack Sanborn joining the linebacker corps this season, it would help Dallas in a big way to have a player on the field who is as comfortable and familiar with the scheme as Overshown.