The Dallas Cowboys enter the 2024-25 season with a lot of questions about their roster.

But one of the positions Jerry Jones and the rest of the team can feel confident about, surely, would be cornerback. Right?

Dallas will head to California for training camp in a week, and when they do it’ll be with a pair of All-Pro, 25-year-old corners in DaRon Bland and Trevon Diggs.

According to an ESPN ranking of the top 10 cornerbacks in the league, however, NFL executives, scouts, coaches and players aren’t exactly raving about the Cowboys’ theoretical lockdown duo entering the new season.

Bland and Diggs both missed out on the top-10 list, with Diggs getting a little love as an honorable mention but Bland merely in the “also receiving votes” category.

Diggs’ ranking is a little easier to understand. After making the Pro Bowl in two consecutive seasons (2021-22), he suffered a torn ACL last year and missed all but two games. He’s still not quite fully recovered: Diggs is expected to miss part of training camp, though he appears to be “progressing well.”

“He was hard to place because of the health issue,” an AFC executive told ESPN. “But he’s still one of the best ball hawks and he’s tried to play more disciplined in recent years.”

Bland’s placement, though, can be viewed as a bit baffling, as there isn’t a name anywhere on the list (top 10, honorable mention or otherwise) who has more interceptions over the past two seasons than Bland does.

Bland picked off nine passes during the 2023-24 season, and took a record-breaking five of them back for touchdowns.

Bland was a candidate for Defensive Player of the Year last season and finished fifth in the voting for that award. And that’s for all defensive positions, not just corner. So NFL execs and the like placing him somewhere around 10 spots lower for ESPN’s list is likely to raise some Cowboys fans’ eyebrows.

Perhaps Bland is still getting dinged for his late draft selection — after all, he’s entering just his third NFL season. The 2022 fifth-rounder might still be taking some of the league by surprise. That’s harder to imagine, though, when he plays for the most primetime-televised team in the NFL.

Maybe the execs and scouts and coaches know something the Cowboys don’t. Or maybe the duo of Bland and Diggs is entering the new season on the underrated side.

See the full top 10 list here.

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