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Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown suffered a severe knee injury for the second time in as many years in Week 14 and the timing of the injury cast some doubt about whether he'll be a contributor for Dallas in 2025.

Overshown said in January that he aims to be back on the field sooner than expected and he plans to do more than just hang around once he gets there. During a Thursday appearance on NFL Network, Overshown said he's set a goal of playing well enough to take home an award at next year's NFL Honors.

"The future's looking good, let me tell you that," Overshown said. "Just how I came off of last year, I'm 100 percent positive. I have my sights set high. Not only do I want to be nominated for the comeback player of the year, but I'm going to be the comeback player of the year. I'm that confident, I feel, with how I'm just going to step back on the field, and you're not gonna see no drop-off. You're going to see me — exactly what you've just seen on that clip — doing those same things."

The Cowboys can't bank too heavily on having Overshown back in the lineup, but he's shown the ability to bounce back from one injury and the team's defense will be a better unit if he proves able to even come close to meeting his lofty goals for the fall.

The Packers announced changes to their coaching staff for 2025.

They hired DeMarcus Covington as defensive line/run game coordinator, Luke Getsy as senior assistant, Cory Harkey as special teams quality control coach, Jeremiah Kolone as offensive assistant (minority fellowship), Jeff Koonz as defensive assistant and Jamael Lett as a defensive quality control coach.

They promoted Sean Duggan to linebackers coach and Sean Mannion to quarterbacks coach and moved Connor Lewis to pass game specialist/game management.

Covington enters his ninth NFL season and first with the Packers after working for the Patriots for the past eight seasons. He worked in multiple roles for the Patriots in his time there, first as a coaching assistant in 2017-18, then outside linebackers coach in 2019, followed by defensive line coach from 2020-23 and then defensive coordinator last season.

Getsy returns to the Packers in a coaching role after being a consultant for Green Bay for part of last season. He originally joined the Packers as an offensive quality control coach (2014-15) before a promotion to wide receivers (2016-17) and then quarterbacks (2019-21). He then added passing game coordinator (2020-21) to his positional duties. In his time between stints with Green Bay, Getsy was the offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach for Mississippi State (2018) and the offensive coordinator for the Bears (2022-23) and then Raiders (2024).

Harkey arrives in Green Bay after working as the assistant special teams coach for the Bills the past three seasons.

Kolone joins the Packers after a short time as an offensive analyst at the University of Central Florida (2025) and a season as an offensive graduate assistant at the University of Arizona (2024).

Koonz had a long collegiate coaching career, including the past five seasons (2020-24) at West Virginia University as the special teams coordinator and inside linebackers coach. He also worked as the defensive coordinator for the Mountaineers for the last part of the 2024 season.

Lett joins the Packers after working as a defensive coaching assistant for the Patriots last season, his first year in the NFL. In 2023, he was a special teams analyst at the University of North Carolina and from 2021-22 he worked as special teams coordinator/defensive assistant at South Alabama.

Duggan worked as a defensive assistant for the Packers last year. He came to Green Bay after spending the previous four years at his alma mater, Boston College, first as linebackers coach (2020-22) before adding co-defensive coordinator to his duties in 2023.

Mannion earned a promotion after working as an offensive assistant for the Packers last season.

The financial terms of the two-year extension that quarterback Geno Smith agreed to with the Raiders were not immediately available on Thursday, but they have now been revealed.

According to multiple reports, Smith stands to make $75 million over the two additional years on the contract. Smith is due $31 million in salary and bonuses in the final year of his current contract.

Incentives can push Smith's total payout to $88.5 million and $66.5 million of the compensation is guaranteed.

The $37.5 million per year average of the extension is a jump over the three-year deal that Smith signed as a member of the Seahawks in 2023 and keeps him in the middle third of NFL starting quarterbacks. That would remain the case if he were to hit the $88.5 million maximum as well, although doing so might mean that he's played well enough to earn another adjustment to his pact before it is up.