The mystery over Trevon Diggs’ past absence has been resolved. His Cowboys future, though, remains a mystery.
Diggs had been sidelined since Week 6 after reporting to practice “with some concussion symptoms,” Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said back on Oct. 17, after the cornerback endured “an accident at his home.”
Nothing further was made public until Sunday, when Diggs returned and said a mounted TV had fallen on him — the culprit later revealed by NFL Network.
“I was trying to be a handyman,” Diggs told reporters with a small smile Sunday.
The head injury, along with a lingering knee issue, knocked Diggs from the field when Dallas was 2-3-1.
Diggs could not return until Sunday, when he suited up and replaced fellow cornerback DaRon Bland, himself out for the season with a foot injury, and played 54 snaps in the 34-17 loss to the Chargers, another blemish for a 6-8-1 Cowboys team that was eliminated from playoff contention with the Eagles win on Saturday night.
At halftime of the game, Diggs went to see his daughter in his family’s suite before making his way to the locker room. It is possible that Diggs — a sixth-year Cowboy and two-time Pro Bowler who could be a salary-cap casualty this offseason — was trying to soak in what might have been his final home game at AT&T Stadium.
“It’s tough,” Diggs told reporters about the possibility that he will not be a Cowboy next year.
The 2020 second-round pick led the league with 11 interceptions in 2021 and signed a $97 million extension in 2023. Just a few months later, though, he tore his ACL in his left knee. He missed the end of the 2025 season, too, for another surgery in the same knee.
What has followed this season has been drama, beginning with the team withholding a bonus in July because Diggs did not participate in enough of the team’s offseason workouts, instead rehabbing his knee with his own staff at home. Diggs was later benched, without a true explanation, for the start of a Week 4 game.
And then the TV fell on Diggs, who could be cut in the offseason to allow the Cowboys to save about $12 million against their salary cap next year.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
