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Is Trevon Diggs playing today? Injury news update for Cowboys CB

Here’s the latest status for the Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs for Week 16 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | From @KDDrummondNFL

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.

Report: Surgery for Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs to include bone graft, increasing rehab time

From @ToddBrock24f7: The procedure should stimulate growth and strength, but it requires a longer recovery and could cost Diggs a big chunk of the 2025 season.

More details are coming out about the latest injury suffered by Trevon Diggs, but what’s becoming increasingly clear is that the Cowboys will be without their star cornerback for a long time.

The surgery to repair his left knee will require a bone graft to address cartilage damage, according to multiple sources, and it will prolong his recovery time even further than originally anticipated.

While the team had been hopeful that the two-time Pro Bowler would be able to return to action around the start of the 2025 regular season, this latest news makes that timetable extraordinarily unlikely.

“I hope it’s definitely sooner,” Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy said Friday, per ProFootballTalk. “But this is a big recovery for Trevon. It’s way too early for me to speculate on that.”

The injury reportedly occurred during the team’s Week 14 game against Cincinnati. Diggs tore the ACL in the same knee early in the 2023 season and missed 15 outings, but this injury is said to be a different issue.

The former second-round draft pick played every snap of the 27-20 loss and even began the next week of practice on a limited basis before consultation with the Cowboys medical staff determined that he should sit out the Week 15 trip to Charlotte to face the Panthers.

“He was having to play with fluid in his knee,” Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones said last week. “It’s certainly a very legitimate injury that’s gonna take him some time to recover from.”

Initial estimates put his rehab at “up to eight months,” but longtime Cowboys insider Clarence Hill Jr. of AllCity DLLS first posited that Diggs “could possibly miss most of next season.”

News of a planned bone graft lends considerable weight to that more conservative outlook.

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As described by David Moore of the Dallas Morning News, “this is where a new piece of bone is inserted into the damaged area in the same way a pothole is repaired or a gap in a joint is caulked.”

The procedure necessitates a longer recovery time than other options, but it offers a better chance at stimulating growth and strengthening the area.

Wide receiver Noah Brown underwent a similar procedure when he was with the Cowboys, causing him to miss the entire 2019 season.

At the conclusion of the 2024 regular season, Diggs will have played in just 13 of the Cowboys’ last 35 games, including playoffs. And now a sizable chunk of next year’s 17 is also in serious jeopardy.

Diggs, 26, has a $9 million base salary for 2025 that is guaranteed in case of injury.

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Report: Cowboys could be without CB Trevon Diggs for quite some time

From @ToddBrock24f7: Diggs will have surgery to repair cartilage in his left knee, Stephen Jones is eyeing Week 1 for his return, but one insider isn’t so sure.

Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs has seen his season end early for the second year in a row due to a knee injury. And although the team is hopeful that it won’t impact his 2025 season, the two-time Pro Bowler could be cutting it close, and that’s the best-case scenario.

Diggs will undergo surgery to repair his left knee after suffering an injury in the team’s Week 14 loss to Cincinnati, the Cowboys announced over the weekend. The issue is reportedly with his articular cartilage, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, and apparently separate from the knee ailment that kept him out of Weeks 12 and 13.

“This is something that occurred during the [Week 14] game,” head coach Mike McCarthy confirmed in his postgame press conference after the team’s 30-14 win over the Panthers.

Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones elaborated on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan on Monday, saying he did not expect Diggs to be ready for training camp next summer and adding, “but I think his timeline will be right at the start of the season.”

Diggs had played every defensive snap of the Monday night meeting with the Bengals and then consulted with the Cowboys’ medical staff during the week. After missing multiple practices and some testing, the decision was made to keep Diggs home from the trip to Charlotte and proceed with plans for surgery.

“He was having to play with fluid in his knee. He was out there doing everything he can because he wants to play, he wants to compete, he wants to contribute,” Jones said of the 26-year-old Diggs.

“It’s certainly a very legitimate injury that’s gonna take him some time to recover from. We got a vision that we can get him ready to do next year.”

In his Monday post to X, Rapoport put the recovery time at “up to eight months.”

But not everyone is ready to automatically pencil Diggs in for Week 1 next fall.

The former second-round draft pick missed most of the 2023 season with an ACL tear in his right knee. Though he was able to be in the starting lineup for that season opener, there are rumblings now that the organization was dissatisfied with the way he approached the rehab stint.

“This is a serious knee injury,” explained longtime insider Clarence Hill Jr. of AllCity DLLS. “He could possibly miss most of next season.”

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Given the financial ramifications of his $97 million contract extension signed in July of 2023 and the return on that investment the team is getting on the field, expect Diggs’s status to be a major storyline for the coming offseason.

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Cowboys to lose CB Trevon Diggs for remainder of 2024 season

From @ToddBrock24f7: Diggs missed 15 games last season to an ACL tear. His latest injury is said to be “significant” but unrelated to that earlier one.

The Cowboys’ unceremonious exit to the 2024 season has been long, painful, and gradual. In fact, the team’s top players have been dropping out here and there, one at a time since before Week 1.

Now, another one bites the dust.

Cornerback Trevon Diggs, already ruled out of Sunday’s game versus the Carolina Panthers, is now reportedly facing knee surgery and will miss the remainder of the season.

The news was first reported by Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer, who posted the development to X on Saturday, shortly after it had been revealed that Diggs- who had been listed as questionable- would not be traveling with his teammates to Charlotte for their Week 15 matchup.

Diggs had just returned from a two-game absence to appear in Monday night’s date with Cincinnati, playing every defensive snap in the 27-20 loss.

It’s unclear if Diggs re-aggravated that injury or suffered an entirely new one, but an MRI this week on Diggs’s still-problematic left knee showed damage that would require surgery following the season. The decision has been made that the end of his season is now.

WFAA’s Ed Werder reports that, per his source, the injury to Diggs’s knee is “significant,” though specifics have not been made public.

Diggs played just two games in 2023 before an ACL tear- also in the left knee- ended that season, too. When the 2024 campaign finally ends for the Cowboys, the former second-round draft pick out of Alabama will have appeared in only 13 of their last 34 regular-season contests.

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Todd Archer of ESPN cites his own source as saying that this most recent issue “is not related to” the 2023 ACL repair.

Diggs is now the fifth Cowboys’ Pro Bowler to be on injured reserve this season, joining Dak Prescott, Zack Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, and DaRon Bland. Eight other Cowboys are currently on IR, too.

Prescott and Martin have already seen their seasons come to a premature end due to injury, as have Sam Williams, John Stephens Jr., Markquese Bell, and DeMarvion Overshown.

And now, Diggs.

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Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs surprises local high school QB with national award

From @ToddBrock24f7: The former Alabama star presented Duncanville QB and Crimson Tide commit Keelon Russell with the Gatorade National Player of the Year Award.

A talented high school quarterback from the Dallas-Fort Worth area is in the midst of what could be a third straight championship run with an eye toward joining the Alabama Crimson Tide next fall.

So when he was chosen this week to receive one of the country’s top honors, it was only fitting to have Trevon Diggs deliver the news.

The Cowboys cornerback and Alabama alum showed up in Duncanville on Tuesday to surprise Keelon Russell with the trophy naming him the 2024-25 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year.

Leading the Duncanville Panthers to a 13-0 mark so far this year, Russell has put up 3,874 passing yards and a staggering 54 touchdowns, but the National Honor Society member also carries a 3.4 GPA and is a regular volunteer in the community with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Now the 40th Gatorade Player of the Year, Russell’s name will be alongside legends like Pro Football Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Emmitt Smith, who were also once honored with the prize. In all, six winners of the award have gone on to become first-round draft picks in the NFL.

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“The Gatorade Player of the Year Program has a 40-year history of recognizing young athletes on their journey to greatness,” said Gatorade’s Anuj Bhasin. “Russell’s accomplishments have earned him a spot on the trophy alongside so many iconic athletes, and we can’t wait to see the legacy he will leave behind.”

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He may be the No. 2-ranked recruit in the nation, but Russell and Duncanville still have unfinished business to attend to.

The undefeated Panthers are set to play in the 6A Division I state semifinals on Saturday. Listed by MaxPreps as the No. 3 high school team in the country and the top-ranked team in Texas, they’ll square off against 14-0 North Crowley (ranked 9th in the nation) in a legitimate clash of titans.

“This is a great opportunity,” Diggs told the Panthers team after their practice on Tuesday. “You worked hard, for sure. Putting your head down, working hard, you see where it got you. I just want you to keep that same mindset, especially going into college.”

Diggs had words of encouragement for Russell, too, hinting that one Sunday in the not-too-distant future, he may be trying to intercept some of the youngster’s passes on an NFL field.

“You’re a great player, that’s a great award,” Diggs told him. “You’re going to go far. I’m going to see you soon.”

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Commanders-Cowboys inactives: Who’s in, who’s out for Week 12

Which players are in for the Commanders against the Cowboys? And who is out? Inactive list is here.

The Washington Commanders released their inactive list ahead of Sunday’s showdown against the Dallas Cowboys and there were no surprises.

All three of Washington’s top offensive tackles are healthy and active. Kicker Austin Seibert is also back after missing the previous two games. Cornerback Emmanuel Forbes is once again a healthy scratch.

Here is the complete inactive list:

  • CB Emmanuel Forbes
  • CB Marshon Lattimore
  • G Chris Paul
  • QB Jeff Driskel
  • LB Dominique Hampton

Lattimore remains inactive as he recovers from a hamstring. Head coach Dan Quinn said last week he was getting closer to making his Washington debut.

The Cowboys will be without numerous starters for this game. They placed quarterback Dak Prescott on season-ending injured reserve last week. Future Hall of Fame guard Zack Martin, cornerback Trevon Diggs, wide receiver Brandin Cooks, guard Tyler Smith and tight end Jake Ferguson are those out for Dallas. Cooks remains on IR, but was expected to be activated.

Here is Dallas’ complete inactive list:

  • G Zack Martin
  • G Tyler Smith
  • RB Deuce Vaughn
  • CB Trevon Diggs
  • CB Caelen Carson
  • DE Tyrus Wheat
  • TE Jake Ferguson

 

Are the Cowboys tanking? Dallas with several starters out vs. Commanders

The Cowboys receive some tough injury news ahead of Sunday vs. Commanders.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones never gives up on a season. Despite how bleak a Dallas season looks, Jones makes the media rounds and insists everything is fine.

The current season isn’t going well for America’s Team. The Cowboys are 3-7 and have lost five in a row heading into Sunday’s NFC East battle against the upstart Washington Commanders (7-4).

Dallas has struggled all season. The defense is one of the NFL’s worst and, coincidentally enough, faces former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn on Sunday. Quinn led the Cowboys to three consecutive top-five defensive finishes before taking Washington’s head coaching position.

The Cowboys placed quarterback Dak Prescott on season-ending injured reserve last week, only two months after Prescott signed a record contract. Prescott wasn’t playing well before injuring his hamstring.

We know Prescott is out for Sunday’s game against the Commanders, but he’s not the only one. Dallas had a long injury on Friday’s final injury report.

David Moore of the Dallas Morning News reported Saturday that two of the Cowboys’ top players, guard Zack Martin and cornerback Trevon Diggs, did not make the trip to Washington. Martin was injured in Monday night’s loss to Houston and was listed as doubtful on the injury report.

Diggs was questionable.

Also, wide receiver Brandin Cooks was not activated from IR and will not play at Washington.

Incredibly, per Todd Archer of ESPN, Dallas will be without its five highest-paid players on Sunday at Washington in terms of 2024 salary cap numbers.

That leads to the question: Has Jones seen enough? One longtime Dallas writer even suggests that the Cowboys may be tanking.

Knowing the way Jones operates, that isn’t very likely. The Cowboys are dealing with several legitimate injuries. And, playing on a short week, Dallas isn’t willing to risk further injury to some of its best players with six weeks remaining in the season after Sunday.

This Cowboys defender just reminded fans how special he can be despite Dallas’ downward spiral

Trevon Diggs brings a special quality to the Cowboys defense that can’t be ignored, says @ReidDHanson

Trevon Diggs, much like the Cowboys as a whole, hasn’t had the best season in 2024. The fifth-year pro has struggled making an impact in the secondary this season and frustration has been visible. The ballhawk who once posted 11 interceptions in a single season only logged a single pick through the first eight weeks of the current campaign.

With fellow All-Pro CB DaRon Bland sidelined with injury all year, it’s been a revolving door at the position opposite Diggs. This Flavor of the Week situation at the other CB spot has been a popular target for opposing quarterbacks looking for easy gains. Combined with the Cowboys poor run defense, it’s created an environment in which Diggs is rarely targeted in coverage. His 4.6 target rate (through Week 10) has been well below career averages and has often rendered Diggs more of a run supporter than coverage specialist.

Like most CBs, Diggs isn’t thrilled to stick his face in the ceiling fan as a run supporter. He’s proven capable but doesn’t always look willing or overly engaged. It’s led to his worst season as a run supporter and the highest missed tackle percentage of his career (20.5%).

But on Sunday in Week 10 against the Eagles, Diggs showed everyone exactly what he brings to the table and why the Cowboys inked him to a five-year, $97 million extension last summer.

Diggs’ diving interception in the end zone might have been the play of the game Sunday if the outcome hadn’t had been so lopsided in the end. With the game in the balance and the Eagles charging downfield to build on their four-point lead, Diggs extended all 6-foot-2 of himself to thieve a Hurts pass intended for Dallas Goedert.

It was a play only a handful of CBs can do in the NFL and a reminder of how special Diggs is for the Cowboys. Diggs might not be the type of player a team builds their defense around, but he is one that can put a defense over the top.

By avoiding him in coverage and targeting him with the running game, opponents can effectively eliminate Diggs from the equation on defense. Such is the nature of the position.

In many ways Diggs’ “down season” is nothing more than a byproduct of the circumstances. If the Cowboys weren’t begging teams to run on them, more passes would be directed downfield. If Dallas had more competent CB play to pair with Diggs on the boundary, QBs would be less likely to focus all their efforts opposite Diggs.

For as disappointing as the season has been for Diggs, he remains a special building block of this defense. It’s the Cowboys fault for not fielding a competent roster around him.

Digg’s tremendous interception reminded everyone how special the 26-year-old ball hawk is. Dallas just needs to fix things around him.

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Is Trevon Diggs playing today? Injury news update for Cowboys CB

Here’s the latest status for the Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs for Week 9 vs the Atlanta Falcons. | From @KDDrummondNFL

Update: Trevon Diggs will in fact play on Sunday, he was not one of the inactives.

Trevon Diggs has had a trying week. Following last week’s frustrating loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the All-Pro cornerback came out the locker room to confront a media member of a tweet made during the contest. It was a bad look that eventually Diggs made amends for, but that wasn’t the end of Diggs’ time as the center of attention.

Diggs also added himself to a ridiculously long list of injured Cowboys when he missed practice on Wednesday with what ended up being identified as a calf tear. Then Diggs missed Thursday, and then Friday.  Duggs was given the game designation of questionable for Dallas’ Week 9 roadtrip to take on the Atlanta Falcons.

The Cowboys are now sitting under ,500, at 3-4 on the 2024 season, losers of two games in a row. The team came out of their bye week flat, and needed a fell-short fourth-quarter rally to make their game against the 49ers a respectable effort.

Now, that same group is traveling to Atlanta in to take on the Falcons and Kirk Cousins. Already missing all of their top edge rushers, the Cowboys have played all season without Diggs’ counterpart DaRon Bland and the last several weeks without his backup rookie Caelen Carson. With Bland out, stopping Cousins and the Falcons aerial attack without Diggs is probably too big of an ask.

Expecting a player who missed all three practices to play at all, much less at a high level, is asking for a lot.

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Cowboys: CB Trevon Diggs has calf muscle tear; will be gametime decision vs Atlanta

From @ToddBrock24f7: Diggs sat out practice this week with what he first thought was calf tightness. Jerry Jones isn’t ready to rule him out for Sunday’s game.

With a road trip to Atlanta on the schedule for this weekend, the Cowboys shouldn’t expect much in the way of Southern hospitality from Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins.

His loaded offense currently ranks in the top 10 leaguewide in points scored, total yards, yards-per-play, first downs, and passing yards. With DeMarcus Lawrence, Micah Parsons, and DaRon Bland all set to sit out once again, this is not the week for the Dallas defense to have any more of its superstar players pop up on the questionable list.

But that’s exactly where top cornerback Trevon Diggs is, with word coming from the top of the organization about the new injury that kept him out of practice earlier in the week and jeopardizes his status for Week 9.

Diggs made news after the team’s loss to the 49ers by getting into a heated exchange with WFAA reporter Mike Leslie outside the visitors locker room. While the two did publicly make up, it put extra eyes on the two-time Pro Bowler this week. Those eyebrows were then raised when Diggs later appeared on the practice report as a non-participant Wednesday and Thursday with some sort of calf issue.

“What none of us knew when that was going on was that he had a tear in his calf, and [it] was going to maybe limit him,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan.

Diggs had told the media that he believed he was dealing merely with tightness in the muscle, stemming from “one of the plays I got hit or something” in Santa Clara last Sunday night.

Jones wasn’t ready to say Diggs will join his other high-profile rehabbing teammates as an onlooker at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

“I’m not so sure he’s out [for Sunday], but… that’s why he wasn’t at practice the other day.”

Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy offered some optimism for Diggs’s status, calling him a gametime decision.

“There’s specific drills we’ll need him to do tomorrow,” the coach said Friday per ESPN’s Todd Archer, “but he was much better today than we could have anticipated. He’s doing everything he can to try to get ready for Sunday.”

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On the bright side for Dallas, it looks as if rookie cornerback Caelen Carson will return to action. He practiced in full all week and carries no official designation for the Atlanta tilt after a shoulder injury that kept him shelved for four games.

Amani Oruwariye was moved to IR earlier in the week with a back injury, leaving nickel starter Jourdan Lewis, special-teams ace C.J. Goodwin, the much-maligned Andrew Booth, and practice-squadder Josh Butler as the only other cornerbacks in the building.

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