FRISCO, Texas — A protracted and arduous street forward awaits DeMarvion Overshown, and it will mark the second time in as many seasons that he’ll be pressured to make his approach by way of it. The gifted younger linebacker will bear surgical procedure to restore a number of torn ligaments in his proper knee after struggling the season-ending damage within the Dallas Cowboys’ loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
The devastating information arrives solely 16 months after Overshown tore the ACL in his left knee within the preseason forward of his rookie season.
“DeMarvion is on the brink of have an enormous surgical procedure in entrance of him,” stated head coach Mike McCarthy. “A big damage. … His bodily and soccer expertise speaks for itself. He’s such a vibrant mild. He’s bought an incredible, infectious character — a troublesome younger man. He is certainly going to be missed.
“… The damage was positively heavy [in the locker room].”
A largely down season for the Cowboys and their defensive unit was in a position to get pleasure from Overshown serving as a lighthouse at midnight, flying out of the gates in Year 2, following a redshirt season in Year 1, losing no time in any respect proving he is a Pro Bowl (and, arguably, an All-Pro) caliber expertise.
In his first 13 energetic video games as a professional, the previous third-round decide delivered 5 sacks, 90 mixed tackles, 4 go break ups, a pressured fumble, a fumble restoration, an interception and a pick-six off of that interception.
Statistically, just one different participant in NFL historical past has had equal or higher manufacturing at linebacker in his first 13 video games who was the identical age or youthful than is Overshown.
His title is Brian Urlacher, the legendary Hall of Famer of the Chicago Bears.
That is the impression Overshown dropped at the sector.
“I do not know, presently, the date on his rehab,” stated proprietor and common supervisor Jerry Jones to 105.3 the Fan on Tuesday. “I simply can’t inform you how dangerous I really feel for him as a result of he is simply been by way of that the psychological and the bodily rehab on his different knee, after which to show round and must undergo that once more — it is the hardest time for a participant. We all see the loss and know what it is going to imply for us in our remaining 4 video games, however the backside line is that it is actually unhappy that he is having to have this surgical procedure for him as a person and clearly us as a workforce.”
It stays unknown if Overshown has any likelihood by any means at taking the sector in 2025, given the timing of the damage to his proper knee and in how the standard restoration time for a torn ACL is roughly one calendar yr — Overshown having torn greater than his ACL in Week 14.
“I believe that is honest,” McCarthy stated when requested if Overshown may miss subsequent season. “Given the time of yr, in December. You have the surgical procedure and the rehab is an extended course of. I believe that is very real looking.”
The state of affairs introduced All-Pro go rusher Micah Parsons to literal tears following the sport, telling of what Overshown already means to the Cowboys each as a participant on the sector and as a brother within the locker room.
“He do not deserve that,” Parsons stated. “He actually do not. So figuring out, understanding what he’ll undergo, bodily and mentally, is simply so difficult. He’s so gifted.
“The yr he was having, I imply, I actually simply do not assume that is honest.”
