DeMarvion Overshown explains the emotional pick-six in Thanksgiving victory over the Giants

ARLINGTON, Texas – It’s getting easier to list the things DeMarvion Overshown can’t do on a football field for the Dallas Cowboys than it is to try to name all the things he can. He can cover, he can stop the run, he can be fired out of a cannon on blitzes to sack the opposing quarterback, and everything in between.

On Thanksgiving, with a hint of turkey in the air, Overshown turned heads in their win over the New York Giants with one of the best plays you’ll see in the sport this season.

He blitzed, blasted Devin Singletary, deflected Drew Lock’s would-be pass to Singletary, chased the ball downfield before it hit the ground, intercepted it and then ran it in for his first-ever pick-six.

“I was just playing soccer and it’s like, man, I knew there was a game coming up and I’ve been told all week that the game was coming,” Overshown explained. “I didn’t know when he was coming, but he was coming and I just played football. I (saw) the ball, threw it and prayed the whole time that it stayed up. I thought, “Man, please let my speed be fast enough to reach that ball for once.”

“Everywhere else is cool, but let me come to this ball. So the emotions? I’m overjoyed right now. It’s a nice win and I’m proud of our team.”

His film study told him everything he needed to know about the Giants’ thought process that week.

“When the running back let go of me, I thought, ‘Some bullshit is going on,'” he said. “And then the quarterback threw the ball and I thought, ‘That’s my play. I was able to throw in some nitrous oxide and we danced in the end zone.”

Simply put, Overshown is a force of nature.

“I told y’all from the beginning that he was going to be a guy,” multiple All-Pro linebacker Micah Parsons said. “Since his rookie year, before the injury, I said, ‘This is going to be a Pro Bowl-type All-Pro player. I’m just glad he’s finally showing it. I saw it from the beginning.”

And then Parsons gave Overshown another huge compliment with a big smile.

“He reminds me of someone,” he said of the young linebacker, stating the obvious. “Well, he’s not No. 11 yet, but this is Agent 0, and I think he has his own creative identity and I like that. He doesn’t try to be like me. He is his own special specimen. He will.” felt every game.

“He’s a wild cat out there in the field. I love playing alongside him.”

Contextually speaking, the things Overshown does in 2024 should be statistically impossible – considering that as a rookie he had to sit out his entire 2023 season with a torn ACL, missed time and preseason games this year with a hip injury, and the first one He played eleven games in his career and is not only one of the best players in the Cowboys’ defense.

He is one of the best players throughout the NFL.

“I’m very grateful,” Overshown said. “Just before the game I told myself this time last year, I was just waiting to show people my report card when I got back on the field. I’m going to show what God has really put in me – to inspire and play like me.

It’s about a boy from East Texas who once dreamed of playing for the Cowboys. Now the adult version of himself makes big appearances for them every week, most recently on a national stage against a division rival on Thanksgiving.

“It doesn’t get any bigger,” Overshown said. “In 2007, my first year as a football player, I was sitting in the Super Bowl for Little League around this time, and the whole week I just thought, ‘Remember when you were seven. Think about what that little boy wanted.’ From today onwards, every time you enter this field.’

Could Overshown be named a Pro Bowler or even All-Pro in his first season on the field?

That’s not out of the question, assuming he continues to handle the offense the way he has, and he would join Micah Parsons and Leighton Vander Esch as the newest linebackers in Dallas to earn that honor as a player in the first year (even though the latter two were technically freshmen).

At this point, the seven-year-old in him can only beam with pride.