Optimism Grows - Agent 0 back in 2025?

DeMarvion Overshown can be back this year - He may have dodged a bullet on injury.

There is very little from the 2024 season that was good. Let’s be honest—we will not talk about this season for years to come. It was a disappointment, even if we sort of knew all along that it would be that way.

But December 9 made the year even worse, as that was the day DeMarvion Overshown’s season ended in a very bad way. He was rolled up on and lost to a massive knee injury in a game against the Bengals, where he was very much in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We wrote the next morning about the horrible gut punch:

Overshown has been the brightest piece of good news in 2024 for Dallas Cowboys football. Even lost seasons introduce us to new cast members and there is no doubt who the “newcomer of the year” is for this organization. He plays with a smiling enthusiasm, speed, and authority. He can make a bad season seem to hold plenty of optimism about what is ahead.

But, on this day, the Cowboys were going to be upset, regardless of outcome. Because their young starlet, who had just returned from a major injury in 2023 to instantly dazzle with his performances, appears to have sustained another major injury in 2024. And these now are late enough in the year that a full recovery for 2025 is always in some doubt. You can easily make the case that Overshown would be the very last piece that you could handle a major injury to this year, as he represents hope and belief in what the future might hold.

Now, unfortunately, because of a fluke moment where anyone standing there would have suffered a similar fate, he will have to shake a growing injury reputation. And the Cowboys will have to wait for his healthy return that now continues to stunt his impact to this organization. The lede of this story was the wild outcome of this game, but the lede of the game is clearly losing Overshown for a long time. That takes the starch out of the remainder of the year, where we hoped to see glimpses of a new dawn. Instead, we will be reminded that a huge part of the future is going to need his body to mend back together in what will likely be a very long process.

It was such a rough scene.