Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Makes Trevon Diggs Guarantee for Week 14
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ARLINGTON, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 28: Trevon Diggs #7 of the Dallas Cowboys warms up against the Green Bay Packers before the game at AT&T Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
It has been more than a month-and-a-half now since the Dallas Cowboys have seen star cornerback Trevon Diggs on the field. Diggs, remember, appeared to be fine before suffering a mysterious mid-week concussion at his home before the Cowboys were slated to play the Commanders. Soon after the concussion, it was revealed that Diggs was also struggling to get himself fully healthy after having had offseason knee surgery.
In Diggs’ case, though, the opposite knee was the one that has been troublesome.
The Cowboys put Diggs on the injured reserve, hoping to give him time to recover from the knee and the concussion simultaneously. The Cowboys have not had much to say about Diggs since, other than he is running and getting up to speed, but that he has not had his practice window yet opened.
“He’s doing better,” coach Brian Schottenheimer said Monday. “One of the issues this week is that it’s a short week. Again, we’ll see what everybody does, but short weeks are a little harder. He’s doing everything best, and has a really good look on his face.”
Trevon Diggs Will ‘Be on the Field’
Now, though, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones is saying that the team is ready to get Diggs back into action. The Cowboys played Thursday of course, beating the Chiefs on Thanksgiving, and have another Thursday game coming up, against the Lions. Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas that Diggs will be back.
“He’ll be on the field,” Jones said. “Could have been on the field, wanted to be on the field (on Thursday), but he’ll be on the field at Detroit, in my view.”
There could be setbacks with Diggs, of course, and some obstacle or other could present itself. But for a team in need of depth at cornerback, Jones is expecting Diggs back.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones (Getty)
Cowboys Need Help at Cornerbacks
The hope is that the Cowboys can get Diggs back to some semblance of his usual self, which has been difficult in recent years because of repeated knee and other injuries. Diggs has played just 19 games in his past three seasons.
Diggs also complained loudly this season about the new defense of coordinator Matt Eberflus, and the lack of man coverage in the scheme. But, fact was, Diggs was struggling to maintain his standard (he was a Pro Bowler in his second and third seasons) whether in man or zone, and rated a Pro Football Focus grade of 58.7, which is just 66th among corners in the NFL.
The Cowboys have vastly improved their defense since the last time Diggs played, but the corners could still use help. Dallas cut ties with Kaiir Elam earlier in the month, and have young corners Caelan Carson and Shavon Revel now in the rotation. A veteran like Diggs, provided he is healthy, has the potential to be a big addition.
Packers’ Micah Parsons Gets More Incoming Flak From Cowboys
The price the Packers paid for star pass-rusher Micah Parsons was, no doubt, high. The team sent out two first-round picks plus Kenny Clark to get their hands on the ex-Cowboys star, and with 12.5 sacks for the 8-3-1 Packers, folks in Green Bay regret nothing about the swap.
In Dallas, though, as the Cowboys have been surging with three straight wins–including beating the Eagles and Chiefs–the spin on Parsons continues. Team owner Jerry Jones, who mishandled the negotiations on a new contract for Parsons before ultimately trading him to Green Bay, said on Friday that he nearly sent Parsons to the Jets before the season and that, really, he didn’t think his star pass-rusher was all that good.
According to Jones, the Cowboys had talked about sending Parsons to the Jets for Quinnen Williams, who was dealt to Dallas at this year’s trade deadline. The offer–and this is something the Jets will surely refute–was Parsons and a first-round pick for Williams.
Micah Parsons Came Up Short With Cowboys
Jones said something that the Packers will surely test in the immediate and in the long-term in Green Bay: That Parsons did not have a big enough impact on winning and losing.
“Micah is very impactful, but we really hadn’t won with Micah,” Jones said Friday. “Not because of Micah. We just hadn’t won because (the opponent) was able to work around us having Micah. They ran right at him or they basically threw the ball quicker. Those are simplistic things.
Indeed, Parsons is one of the best pass-rushers in the NFL, only rating below Browns star Myles Garrett (who is on another planet) in the Pro Football Focus grading system, where Parsons rates a 93.2 and Garrett rates a 93.5. But Parsons is a mediocre run-stopper, ranked No. 38 among pass-rushers with a 66.3 rating.
The Packers as a whole have only a mediocre run defense, ranked No. 16 in the NFL.
Packers Seeing Parsons Get Double-Teamed
Parsons has had an issue with being double-teamed this season, and for the Packers, the key is to take advantage of that. Green Bay has an advantage Dallas did not have–the overall defensive talent is better. And Parsons has been effective in taking advantage when he is single-teamed by offensive linemen.
“It should be a loss for them,” defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley said. “I think if you ask Micah, if they block him one-on-one, his answer is going to be that I should win. And our expectation is, if they block him one-on-one, he’s going to win, too.
“Now he’s not going to win all of them. Let’s understand that. You’re not going to win everyone. But there were a few he won so fast where, I don’t care who was playing quarterback for them, the guy had no chance. So, I hope teams continue to try to block him one-on-one. But there were sometimes in that [Minnesota] game, where there were three guys on him.”
