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Todd ArcherSep 3, 2025, 02:43 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.<\/p>\n PHILADELPHIA — After trending in the right direction during the week of practice, Dallas Cowboys<\/a> cornerback Trevon Diggs<\/a> and left tackle Tyler Guyton<\/a> carry no injury designation into Thursday’s season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> and will be available to play.<\/p>\n The question is how much. On Friday, coach Brian Schottenheimer acknowledged it is easier to mix and match how much Diggs plays compared with Guyton because of their positions.<\/p>\n During training camp in Oxnard, California, it was unclear when either would be able to play this season.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Diggs opened camp on the physically unable to perform list as he rehabbed a complicated surgery on his left knee in January. He elected to do his rehab in South Florida, which led to his base salary being reduced by $500,000<\/a> due to a de-escalator clause in his contract that required him to participate in 84% of the Cowboys’ offseason program.<\/p>\n He was activated off PUP on Aug. 24 and has been able to get two weeks of practice in, taking snaps with the first-team defense as well as the scout team to improve his conditioning. He said Monday he believed he had a 75-80% chance of playing after feeling good.<\/p>\n Diggs might work as the Cowboys’ third cornerback Thursday and play in passing situations with DaRon Bland<\/a> moving into the slot. The Cowboys will monitor his snaps, which could lead to Reddy Steward<\/a> seeing some work in the slot as well.<\/p>\n The Cowboys initially feared Guyton suffered a torn ACL in practice on July 28, but after further testing he was diagnosed with a broken bone in his knee<\/a>. In the past 10 days, he has gone from doing rehab to practicing with the first team.<\/p>\n Coaches praised Guyton’s off-field work in staying up to date with the offense and the line’s responsibilities. Guyton, a first-round pick in 2024, started 11 of the 15 games he played last year.<\/p>\n If things change before kickoff, the Cowboys would likely start Nate Thomas<\/a> at left tackle with Hakeem Adeniji<\/a> as the swing tackle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd ArcherSep 3, 2025, 02:43 PM ET CloseTodd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-130624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}