Trevon Diggs is out for the season. What are the Cowboys’ choices?

Things were travelling simply a bit too efficiently, it appears, as the Dallas Cowboys have strike their veryfirst genuine speed bump of the 2023 season.

The hum of the normal game-week regular was damaged Thursday when word appeared Trevon Diggs had left practice with an obvious knee injury. By the time reports emerged Diggs would be goingthrough an MRI, the worst was currently validated: The All-Pro corner had suffered a torn ACL.

A appealing season in which Diggs began with 3 pass separations, a required fumble and an interception is over priorto the beginning of Week 3.

It’s a difficult blow for the Cowboys. Diggs has 18 interceptions in 47 profession videogames and simply signed a $97 million agreement at the beginning of training camp. He simply turned 25 on Wednesday, which simply goes to program how intense his future looks. Hopefully, his healing is swift and without problem. 

It’s likewise a unfortunate advancement for football fans in basic, offered what appeared to be cooking in the Dallas secondary this season. Diggs and Stephon Gilmore formed a uncommon duo of All-Pro corners sharing an NFL field, and the offseason enjoyment looked warranted through 2 videogames. Through this early point in the season, Dallas protective backs have batted away 11 passes and chose off 5.

Now, the job falls to protective planner Dan Quinn to adjust on the fly. Fortunately for him, the Cowboys have located him well. The Cowboys’ cabinet is not bare at cornerback. DaRon Bland has emerged as a young skill, Jourdan Lewis provides 6 years of NFL experience, the group traded for previous first-round choice Noah Igbinoghene, and Gilmore still stays as an All-Pro existence.

That doesn’t even consistof the Cowboys’ security corps, which is bringing back Donovan Wilson from injury and consistsof the duo of Jayron Kearse and Malik Hooker.

This is not to lessen the loss of a skill such as Diggs. Quinn would no doubt choose to have an elite professionalathlete, who can dealwith man-to-man protection versus essentially anybody, who likewise has the ball abilities to stack 11 interceptions on the season. Even still, there are enough capable bodies on hand to make do, and Quinn is a intense adequate protective mind to understand how to usage them. It’s at least somewhat reminiscent of 2021, when a practice injury to DeMarcus Lawrence required Quinn to release Micah Parsons as a pass rush — and the rest is history.

It would be unreasonable to anticipate comparable results in this case. Parsons was the No. 12 total choice in that year’s draft, and he is now staking his claim as the finest edge rush in football. But Quinn does have alternatives to select from, and whoever is charged with changing Diggs will have Parsons & Co. pressing the opposing quarterback. There’s plenty of factor to trust that the Cowboys’ secondary can weathercondition the storm this season.

As for today, it’s a difficult bump for a group that was out to the mostpopular start in the league. Let’s see how well they recuperate from it.

David Helman covers the Dallas Cowboys for FOX Sports. He formerly invested 9 seasons covering the Cowboys for the group’s authorities site. In 2018, he won a local Emmy for his function in producing “Dak Prescott: A Family Reunion” about the quarterback’s time at Mississippi State. Follow him on Twitter at @davidhelman_.