Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs has had a rough couple of seasons. This 2024 season has been particularly trying, as he returned from missing almost all of 2023 due to an ACL tear suffered prior to Week 3. After an extensive rehabilitation process, the 2021 All-Pro was able to return for the first part of this season. However, as is often the case with speed-dependent positions, returning to top form after an ACL injury was a bit elusive.
Diggs was decent, but he wasn’t what fans remembered from the 2020 through 2022 years. The frustration of his and the team’s sluggish start boiled over after a loss to the San Francisco 49ers, when he came out the locker room to confront a media member for a derogatory tweet made during the contest. It was a bad look that eventually Diggs made amends for, but that was a precursor to more problems.
Diggs suffered a calf tear prior to Week 9 and though he played a strong Week 11 game against Philadelphia, he missed the following two contests just when secondary mate DaRon Bland returned from offseason foot surgery. Diggs would return in Week 14, but it appears that is the last action he will see for some time.
Diggs has now been placed on IR for a knee injury that will require surgery. It is a significant surgery in which they will use a bone graft to help repair the cartilage in the knee that had the torn ACL and it could cause him to miss most or all of the 2025 season as well.