Following Monday’s practice, the Dallas Cowboys worked out several cornerbacks, resulting in the signing of Christian Matthew.
Trevon Diggs, Shavon Revel and Josh Bulter are all facing an uphill battle dealing with injuries, and now another starting cornerback is going to be out for up to six weeks.
Caelen Carson hyperextended his knee on Sunday and according to Todd Archer could miss over a month.
Carson was slotted to be the guy that this secondary was going to depend on until Diggs and Revel returned from injury.
Now, this secondary is getting worse and worse by the day, and could be in great trouble when September rolls around.
What Is The Plan?
To be honest with you, with them signing Christian Matthew, do they really have a plan?
The only two guys that they can depend on for NOW is DaRon Bland and Kaiir Elam who has been the surprise of camp thus far.
Elam spent the first three seasons of his career with the Buffalo Bills.
The obvious thing to do is sign Stephon Gilmore, but we know Jerry Jones won’t make that call.
Cowboys CB Caelen Carson suffered a hyperextended knee Sunday that will keep him out 4-6 weeks, according to sources. Thins out a position that’s been w/o Trevon Diggs, Shavon Revel, Josh Butler, who are on PUP/NFI, and DaRon Bland until Monday. Hence Christian Matthew addition.
— Todd Archer (@toddarcher) July 29, 2025
Gilmore started all 17 games for Dallas in 2023, holding quarterbacks to an 83.3 passer rating and earning a 72.3 coverage grade.
Gilmore brings leadership, press-man skills, and trust. He also knows the locker room, coaches, and can pick up the playbook quickly, making him a plug-and-play fit in Week 1.
We have to call it like it is. This is one of the weakest points on the team right now, and it is not going to be pretty if they don’t get a great pass rush for the first few games until at least Diggs can return and give them another decent body out there.
I really do not think they are going to make any other moves, though. They will stick with what they have and hope it works until all the guys who are injured can return and give them something in the secondary.
When you look at the Cowboys’ schedule, they open up against the defending Super Bowl Champs in the Eagles. That will be a game they will likely be without all these guys.
They then play the Giants at home on September 14th, an offense that shouldn’t hurt. They then head on the road to play the Bears. By then, I hope the secondary will be healthy.
I am just hoping they can stay away from any other major injuries that will cause any starters to miss time.
We won’t have any of our corners out by week 1!! If we do it’ll only be Trevon Diggs!! He’s the only one that mite miss the first game of the season, but d everybody else will be ready before then!! Caelen Carson mite miss the first week now with a 4-6 week timetable, but we won’t need him in week 1 anyways because we’ll have the other corners ready by then!! Revel will be ready to go any time now, the only reason he’s not already practicing is because he had a setback before he was drafted, but it’s obvious he’s about ready to go because he was just put on the NFI list and not the PUP list!! And another thing is, you said Bland and Elam are the only corners they can depend on, but that’s not true either, they also have Israel Mukuamu, and why he’s not getting more reps with the first team right now don’t make any sense!! He’s probably the best option we have to play in the slot right now, and he mite be just as good on the outside!! I can’t say for sure because he hasn’t played much if at all on the outside, but he has played in the slot, and he was able to shut down Chris Godwin in the playoffs, so I know if he can do that in that big of a game, then he’s good enough to be the starter in the slot for the year!! But like I said, we’ll have all of our corners ready for the first week of the season, except maybe Diggs, and even if Diggs isn’t ready by week 1, we’ll still have Bland, Revel, Elam and Mukuamu ready to play by week one, and Booth has made a big leap this offseason too, and even though he got injured too, he should still be ready by week 1 too!! But with Bland, Revel, Elam and Mukuamu all ready to go by week 1, we won’t need anybody else, so we’ll be fine until Diggs is completely healthy and ready to play again!! And even if Diggs is healthy, we still mite not need him if Elam is playing the way he has been in camp!! So when Diggs is healthy, we’ll have at least one starting caliber corner sitting on the bench, so we’re good at corner!!
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s the Cowboys secondary was getting worse the last two season because a lot of players left through free agency because Jerry Jones didn’t have the money to pay them or they was injured
Always double the injury recovery time given by the Boys. The Boys are notorious for low balling injury recovery to the press and fans. In this new gambling era, misrepresenting injuries needs to be addressed. A secondary and an offense line needs to work together to function. These are the two most injured areas so it it not just how long to recover individually but is there any practice time after starters return? Real camp ends this week as games happen each week after next Saturday and practices become less and less camp like after the first preseason game. And, Shane, you imply an issue between Jerry and Gilmore– what is the issue?