A fractured bone in his foot will keep former Alabama standout CB Trevon Diggs on the sideline for four to six weeks, and that news caused the Dallas Cowboys to play him on the injured reserve.

Diggs was a second-round pick by Dallas. He had 48 tackles, 10 pass deflections and two picks in nine games. The team announced that the rookie fractured a bone in his foot in the fourth quarter against the Pittsburgh Steelers and will miss at least the next three weeks, per IR rules.

In September, Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said he was impressed with the Diggs’ early performance and he earned a starting job.

“Outside of his obvious high skill set to play the position and the physical measurables, the thing that I’m so impressed with off his college tape and he’s brought it here to Dallas is he has such a patience and calmness to him when he’s in coverage,” McCarthy said, per DallasCowboys.com. “And that breeds, to me, the confidence that he plays with and the understanding that he plays with, not only what’s expected of him and how he fits into the coverage scheme, but his ability to understand route running, the breaking points of a route, the stem of a route. But he plays with a lot of maturity in his coverage. That’s something I’ve been impressed with from day one.”