With Trevon Diggs recovering from his bone graft surgery on his left knee, and Jourdan Lewis is no longer with the team the Dallas Cowboys cornerback room is going to be a bit thin when the season starts in September.
Sure, Stephon Gilmore is still out there, and maybe they brought him in, but I doubt it.
That leaves guys like DaRon Bland, Elam, Caelen Carson and Shavon Revel Jr. who the Cowboys drafted this March, but a projected first round pick is recovering from a torn ACL himself, so he won’t be ready for the start of the year.
Kaiir Elam
A few weeks ago, the Dallas Cowboys declined the fifth-year option of cornerback Kaiir Elam, a guy they traded for this offseason.
The team acquired Elam in a trade with the Bills. Buffalo will receive a 2025 fifth-round selection and a 2026 seventh-rounder, while sending a 2025 sixth-round choice to the Cowboys along with Elam.
A few weeks ago, the Dallas Cowboys declined the fifth-year option of cornerback Kaiir Elam, a guy they traded for this offseason.
The team acquired Elam in a trade with the Bills. Buffalo will receive a 2025 fifth-round selection and a 2026 seventh-rounder, while sending a 2025 sixth-round choice to the Cowboys along with Elam.
Kaiir Elam has been one of the most impressive players during offseason workouts for the #Cowboys.
What will it mean for their defense if he turns out to be…good?https://t.co/iN7rQsN6vh
— Marcus Mosher (@Marcus_Mosher) June 12, 2025
I was never fully on board with him when they traded for the guy, but he is going to have a perfect chance early in the season to step in and earn his snaps even when Diggs returns.
He totaled 81 tackles, six passes defensed and two interceptions with the Bills.
“I feel like the energy here is something I’ve never been a part of,” Elam said on Tuesday, via the team’s website. “I love the enthusiasm, and also I would just say the energy from the coaching staff, they actually make you feel like they care, and that’s something that’s very exciting.”
I am not sure what to make of the Cowboys secondary. I feel like it might be the worst it has been in years, but maybe they can hit a home run with Elam, and he can work out until Diggs can return to 100% for a Matt Eberflus defense.
He has the right mindset and seems to be bought into what the Cowboys are doing and he knows that this might be his last chance to make it in the NFL, and he has the perfect chance with a weaker CB room in Dallas.
There’s no guarantee Revel won’t be ready for the start of the year!! He was injured all the way back in week 3 of college football!! That’s plenty of time to heal!! And I’ve heard that he had a minor set back, but it’s not anything to keep him from being ready to go for training camp!! So as long as he don’t have another set back, he should be ready for training camp!! If he’s not ready by then, he shouldn’t have any problems being ready for week one!! Either way, he’ll be ready by week 1!!
But as far as Kaiir Elam goes, I liked the trade from the minute I found out about it!! He’s a better player than what he’s shown in Buffalo!! Buffalo just didn’t treat him too good while he was there, and they never really gave him a chance after his rookie year, and that can mess with a player’s mind when the player feels like he’s not wanted, or trusted, and that’s how buffalo treated him!! But now that he’s with us, and our coaches are making him feel wanted, and it’s gonna make him feel more confident and comfortable and should help him be a better player!! So I think we got a steal when we traded for him!! And if Diggs isn’t ready by week 1, I’d be fine with Elam taking place!! And if Elam can show why he was a 1st round pick, I wouldn’t mind if we just traded Diggs and kept Elam!! But he has to be as good as Diggs was or better!! If Diggs is just slightly better than Elam then I guess we’ll be better off with Diggs!! But I think Elam can be just as good if not better than Diggs, especially with how Diggs has played lately…. Well the little bit he has played since his first injury, which isn’t very much!! But Diggs really started to go down hill after year 2 or 3 in the NFL, so I don’t expect Diggs to come back after his 2nd knee surgery and be a pro bowl player, so it’s very possible that Elam can just take the corner job from Diggs!! But I guess the only way to find out is to wait until week one of the regular season, or until Diggs comes back!!