Demarvion Overshown wasn't fined for running onto field in street clothes

Published November 15, 2026 08:21 AM In the fourth quarter of a Week 9 game the Cowboys led by only three points, Dallas forced — and recovered — a fumble by Colts running back Jonathan Taylor. The ensuing celebration drew a penalty.Said referee Clay Martin in announcing the specific of theinfraction, “Unsportsmanlike conduct by Dallas, who had a non-uniformed player in the blue sweats and a stocking cap come onto the field to celebrate.”The non-uniformed player in the blue sweats and the stocking cap was linebacker DeMarvion Overshown, who was inactive for the game due to injury.While violations of the celebration rules routinely spark fines, Overshown was not financially penalized by the league.It’s possible Overshown got some sort of punishment from the team, especially since owner and G.M. Jerry Jones rejected Overshown’s claim that he didn’t know it was against the rules for a player not in uniform to run onto the field for a celebration. “I don’t think that,” Jones said. “I really don’t. I think that he’s been involved in football at Texas, and he’s been involved here, and he knows that, at every level, a nonparticipant can’t run out on the field.”Every player should have known the rule before last Sunday. Given what happened in the Dallas game, where the lost 15 yards of field position set the stage for a game-tying field goal by the Colts (the Cowboys eventually won, 27-23), there’s even less of an excuse to not know it now.