Painted into a Corner: Cowboys suffer another injury at CB; team thin on options
Second-year cornerback Caelen Carson, who started five games last season and was set to potentially be an important part of the team's defensive backfield to open 2025, has suffered a hyperextended knee in practice, it was revealed Tuesday. As first reported by ESPN's Todd Archer, the 23-year-old is expected to miss four to six weeks.
The unit in Dallas is already missing All-Pro Trevon Diggs, who is recovering from a serious knee injury of his own, one which required tissue graft surgery in January. Rookie Shavon Revel, Jr. is also on the comeback trail from a knee issue that dropped him to the third round of the draft this past spring. Additionally, depth piece Josh Butler tore an ACL late last season; he started training camp on the Physically Unable to Perform list.
A fifth-round selection out of Wake Forest in 2024, Carson himself saw his own rookie year derailed early by a shoulder issue; he had been rehabbing from offseason surgery in hopes of helping to carry the load for his rehabbing teammates up until this latest incident.
The many question marks at cornerback forced the Cowboys to address the position during the offseason, trading for former first-round pick Kaiir Elam to pair with DaRon Bland. Bland missed some time in recent days due to the birth of a child but looks to return to All-Pro form. And Elam has had an impressive camp thus far.
But even that is not enough horses to go into the season with. Just hours before news of Carson's injury broke, the team signed former Bears CB Christian Matthew, who had played in 18 games for the Cardinals and then briefly for Matt Eberflus in Chicago.
Carson's recovery timetable could theoretically have him back in the lineup by Week 1, but he will almost assuredly miss the rest of training camp and all three games of the preseason.
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