{"id":217886,"date":"2025-09-11T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217886\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:04:27","slug":"cowboys-cb-daron-bland-suffers-foot-injury-will-miss-a-couple-of-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217886\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys CB DaRon Bland suffers foot injury, will miss a couple of weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Just as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/10\/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-knee-surgery-daron-bland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/10\/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-knee-surgery-daron-bland\/\">the Cowboys got Trevon Diggs back in the lineup<\/a>, they could be without their other top cornerback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">DaRon Bland has a right foot injury and will miss a couple of weeks, a person with knowledge of the injury told The Dallas Morning News. The total length of Bland\u2019s absence will be determined by his rehab progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Of note, the injury is in his right foot and unrelated to the stress fracture he suffered in his left foot last season. He played in only seven games in 2024 because of the left foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toddarcher\/status\/1965909823343759737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toddarcher\/status\/1965909823343759737\">According to ESPN<\/a>, Bland injured his foot during practice Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/10\/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-knee-surgery-daron-bland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/10\/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-knee-surgery-daron-bland\/\">He did not practice for the Cowboys on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Cowboys fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__vkDb2 inline-flex secondaryBold secondaryBold-5 text-center\">Or with: <\/p>\n<p>Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">This injury complicates things for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\">Cowboys<\/a>, who were easing Diggs back into the lineup as he returns from his offseason knee surgery. He played just 27 out of 63 possible snaps in Dallas\u2019 loss to the Eagles last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas values Bland\u2019s versatility, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/31\/dallas-cowboys-daron-bland-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/31\/dallas-cowboys-daron-bland-contract-extension\/\">shown by the four-year extension the Cowboys signed him to before the season began<\/a>. His ability to play both on the outside in base situations and slot corner in nickel situations is key for Matt Eberflus\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View More<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/10\/nfl-expert-picks-week-2-cowboys-giants-eagles-chiefs-commanders-packers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SportsDay\u2019s expert NFL picks for Week 2: Cowboys-Giants, Eagles-Chiefs and more<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/10\/dallas-cowboys-jadeveon-clowney-visit-nfl-free-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evaluating Jadeveon Clowney\u2019s fit with Cowboys as veteran DE takes visit with Dallas<\/a><\/ul>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as the Cowboys got Trevon Diggs back in the lineup, they could be without their other top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,347,7311,1596,8998,1318,62,358,30501,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-217886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-trevon-diggs","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115185101450769851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}