FRISCO, Texas — A blockbuster decision has been made by the Dallas Cowboys as they approach the end of their 2025 season. Trevon Diggs, the team's former All-Pro cornerback, has been waived by the organization in a move that ends a tumultuous final chapter between the two.
Diggs will be subject to the NFL waiver wire over the next 24 hours. If he goes unclaimed, he will be free to sign with any of the other 31 teams.
A former second-round pick of the Cowboys in 2020, the former Alabama cornerback flew out of the gates at the professional level, going on to set franchise records en route to becoming the league's interception leader in 2021 — earning two Pro Bowl nods and First-team All-Pro honor in his first two seasons.
In his second year alone, Diggs racked up 11 interceptions for a combined 142 yards, and two were pick-sixes, and a total of 17 interceptions in his first three seasons before things took an unfortunate turn with his health.
Slowed by injuries thereafter, the 27-year-old attempted to work his way back to form in 2025, having suffered a season-ending knee injury in 2023, unable to regain his same level of play in 2024, however, and it was announced later in the season he would be placed on season-ending injured reserve to undergo another procedure on the surgically-repaired knee.
In 2025, Diggs began the season with high hopes but a concussion and soreness in the offending knee again landed him on injured reserve, remaining sidelined for much of the second half of the season before being activated against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 16.
He'd go on to play against the Washington Commanders on Christmas Day as well, marking his final time in a Cowboys' uniform.
Opting to part ways with Diggs doesn't allow the Cowboys to escape the payout of his final game check, seeing as he's a vested veteran, and certainly not the $8.5 million that was guaranteed or, as stated, any of the non-guaranteed money that has already been paid out over the course of the season.
Not having him on the books for 2026, however, frees them of the $14.5 million salary that was to come, money they could use in free agency and/or to re-sign a player like George Pickens (and/or Jadeveon Clowney and/or Javonte Williams, etc.).
From a strange summer wherein Diggs and the team were at odds over his rehabilitation plan, one that cost him $500,000, to a season headlined by a disconnect with defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus and head coach Brian Schottenheimer, to a controversial concussion suffered at home and the aforementioned latest stint on IR, it never truly felt as if Diggs and the Cowboys were on the same page, or that they ever would be again.
So, as the calendar closes on 2025, so does Diggs' career in Dallas.
