Trevon Diggs‘ run on his second Cowboys contract has not gone particularly effectively. The previous All-Professional cornerback entered this season after an in depth rehab effort, one from an ACL tear suffered during an early-season practice last year. Diggs now seems to be more likely to miss extra time.
The fifth-year player has not practiced this week, and Jerry Jones said during his latest 105.3 The Fan appearance via The Athletic’s Jon Machota {that a} calf tear is behind the absence.
Whereas it seems Diggs is not going to play towards the Falcons on Sunday, Jones’ information drop comes after the extremely paid cowl man performed 99% of the Cowboys’ defensive snaps in Week 8. Throughout coaching camp, Diggs returned from his ACL rehab and was activated off the active/PUP list. He has performed in all seven Cowboys video games this season. That mentioned, Jones added (via Machota) that he’s unsure Diggs will miss the Atlanta contest. Nonetheless, three DNPs typically sign an absence. Diggs’ Friday standing has not been decided but.
Jones’ refusal to rule out Diggs comes as DaRon Bland, whom the Cowboys activated off IR this week, remains to be experiencing pain in his surgically repaired foot. Bland suffered a foot fracture throughout camp, and whereas he had progressed to full practices, the 2023 All-Professional — who moved to the surface place after Diggs’ September 2023 damage — has not practiced this week. Bland is again on Dallas’ 53-man roster, as he would have been shuttled to season-ending IR had the Cowboys not made that activation this week.
The Cowboys gave Diggs a five-year, $97M extension before training camp last summer. Diggs, 26, made it by means of two video games earlier than the knee damage ended his season. The previous second-round decide, the primary participant to achieve the 11-INT mark in a season for the reason that Cowboys’ Everson Partitions did so in 1981, has cultivated a boom-or-bust popularity at nook. Professional Soccer Focus has the Alabama alum slotted ninety fifth this season on the place.
Increase-or-bust additionally precisely labels the Cowboys’ 2020s run at nook. Every of the crew’s present high three (Diggs, Bland, Jourdan Lewis) has sustained a major damage just lately, with Lewis happening with a Lisfranc injury deemed career-threatening. The Cowboys additionally missed on second-round decide Kelvin Joseph and didn’t re-sign Stephon Gilmore this offseason; the Dallas one-and-done CB landed in Minnesota.
The Cowboys, who sit 3-4 as their offensive and defensive items rank exterior the highest 20, additionally haven’t seen Micah Parsons return to observe. The All-Professional edge rusher has missed three video games with a excessive ankle sprain. DeMarcus Lawrence stays on IR together with his Lisfranc difficulty.
