{"id":219620,"date":"2025-09-12T01:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:31:34","slug":"cowboys-matt-eberflus-tasked-with-replacing-daron-bland-at-cornerback-vs-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/219620\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys, Matt Eberflus tasked with replacing DaRon Bland at cornerback vs. Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRISCO \u2014 Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus has changes to make at cornerback for Sunday\u2019s home opener against the Giants.<\/p>\n

Starter DaRon Bland is most likely out for the Giants game<\/a> with a sprained right foot. Bland hasn\u2019t practiced the last two days after suffering the injury in Monday\u2019s practice. Bland wore a protective boot on the foot earlier in the week, but didn\u2019t on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Replacing Bland will be Trevon Diggs, who didn\u2019t start in the season opener<\/a> because he was still in a ramp-up phase coming off knee surgery. Before the Bland injury, Diggs was expected to get more playing time against the Giants. <\/p>\n

Now with Bland gone, Diggs will start outside with Kaiir Elam. When the Cowboys lost to the Eagles in the season opener, Bland moved to the slot when the team went with three corners. <\/p>\n

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Without Bland, finding the nickel corner is Eberflus\u2019 mission.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have Reddy Steward,\u201d Eberflus said Thursday. \u201cHe was there with us at [Chicago]. He ended up playing in a game or two for us. He knows the position. Zion [Childress] had a really good camp for us and we\u2019ll keep evaluating it as we go throughout the week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Childress made the 53-man roster but was released as part of some roster movement. He was signed back to the practice squad and could be elevated for Sunday\u2019s game to provide some depth or become the slot corner.<\/p>\n

Steward played one game last season for the Bears and was claimed off waivers on August 27. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s football and I\u2019m getting acclimated with the play calls and stuff like that,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m back on track with all that, so I feel good about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The first-year offensive coordinator has higher standards for his group than what was shown in Week 1.<\/p>\n

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Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO \u2014 Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus has changes to make at cornerback for Sunday\u2019s home opener against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":219621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,7311,1596,8998,1232,358,92591,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-219620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-the-star-in-frisco","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115188746593947754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219620","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=219620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}