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ARLINGTON, Texas — The 2024 NFL season is a new year for every team, but for the Dallas Cowboys, it’s the third in a row in which a starting cornerback suffered a significant injury.
Nickel cornerback Jourdan Lewis suffered a Lisfranc foot injury in 2022, and two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Trevon Diggs tore his ACL in practice prior to Dallas’ Week 3 game at the Arizona Cardinals last season. Now, 2023 First-Team All-Pro DaRon Bland, last season’s NFL leader in interceptions (nine) and the league’s single-season record holder for pick-sixes (five), will miss the next six to eight weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a stress fracture in his foot.
With just over two weeks remaining until the Cowboys kick off their 2024 regular season in Cleveland against the Browns on Sept. 8, Dallas owner and general manager Jerry Jones is anticipating Bland’s return to be sometime between Weeks 5 and 6. That’s a timeline he views as “good news.”
“Well, I’m glad it’s not for an extended period of time,” Jones said after the team’s preseason finale against the Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday. “We lose him four or five ball games. I go though that pretty quick and pretty cavalier. It’s not cavalier, it’s [the injury] serious, but the good news is we’re going to have him for the meat of the deal. That’s the good news.”
Bland has maintained his same, steady attitude and outlook on life according to his teammates despite the setback.
“Yeah, he is an even-keeled guy,” Lewis said of Bland. “You got to know DB, he is going to stay the same regardless. That’s how he plays and how he lives his life. He is going to be even-keeled. He knows that he is going to get back and when he does, he’s going to be a very high performer.”
Lewis dealt with a foot injury himself, albeit a slightly different one with it being a Lisfranc injury. His advice to Bland is not avoid checking out from football, emphasizing…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-08-25 02:41:15
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