One of the most important things for the Cowboys in 2025 is going to be health.
The Dallas Cowboys can change the coaching staff and upgrade the roster, but the one thing they can’t do is prevent injuries from happening no matter how hard they try. They learned that the hard way last year in 2024 when the injury bug bit them hard.
Throughout the season last year, several key players missed time due to one nagging injury or another. Some of those injuries were more severe than others, landing several players on injured reserve. Dallas’ offense and defense suffered as a result.
Offensively, the biggest blow was losing QB Dak Prescott for half the season to a season-ending hamstring injury. His absence was significant, but injuries to Brandin Cooks, Jake Ferguson, and Zack Martin also negatively impacted Dallas’ offensive production throughout the year as well.
Defensively things were even worse. There was a revolving door due to injuries at both defensive end and cornerback due to injuries. That resulted in several of those players spending time on IR at some point. If you add in DeMarvion Overshown’s season-ending injury, at no point in the 2024 season was Dallas’ defense close to full strength.
While it’s true that was then and this is now, sadly several of those injuries to key players will carry over into the 2025 season for the Dallas Cowboys. Dak Prescott, Trevon Diggs, DeMarvion Overshown, and Sam Williams will be returning from season-ending injuries this year with only Prescott and Williams likely healthy enough to play in the season opener.
The timetable for Trevon Diggs and DeMarvion Overshown to potentially play in 2025 is one of the ultimate mysteries right now for the Cowboys. There’s a chance both could possibly be available at about the mid-season point, however, the severity of both players injuries probably make that a best case scenario.
If that wasn’t enough, the Cowboys drafted CB Shavon Revel in the third round this year, and he too is currently working his way back from a season-ending injury. Unlike Diggs though, Revel is expected to to be back around the time the Cowboys report to training camp where he could be competing for a starting job.
Even though it’s out of their control, the Dallas Cowboys 2025 season likely hinges on several of their key players getting back to being 100% healthy and hopefully staying that way, or close to it, for the entire year. If not, we could see a repeat of their injury plagued 2024 season all over again.
With their season likely hanging in the balance, the Cowboys have to find some way of better overcoming injuries than they did a season ago. Hopefully the moves that made in the offseason will help this situation better than it did last year, but only time will tell if that’s true or not.
Whatever the case, injuries could once again play a huge factor in Dallas’ success or failure once again in 2025. All we can do is hope and pray for the best while we sit back and watch to see how all of this unfolds.
