Trevon Diggs Expresses Gratitude for First Game Back After Knee Surgery
Posted September 11, 2025
Trevon Diggs is officially back.
The All-Pro cornerback expressed his excitement and said he felt good after playing 27 snaps in the Dallas Cowboys‘ season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday.
Diggs, of course, is still recovering after having knee surgery in January. He only was on the field for 43 percent of the Cowboys’ defensive plays in their 24-20 loss to the Eagles, yet that was by plan as he ramps up from two knee injuries over the past two years.
What Did Trevon Diggs Say About Playing in Week 1?
The Cowboys are obviously better with the sixth-year cornerback on the field than without him, which is why they are trying to ramp him up while also still getting the benefits of his talent.
Diggs is good with that, but he also opened up about what being on the field Thursday meant.
“It felt good,” Diggs said of returning to the field for the first time since Week 14 in 2024. “Thankful, blessed to just go out there and be with my teammates competing. I missed it a lot being out all the time I was, so it was a blessing just to be out there.”
Diggs was inactive for six of Dallas’ final seven games after missing all but two games with a torn ACL in 2023. So he spoke about having to clear the mental hurdles of trusting his knee.
“I have to be in order to get over that,” Diggs said. “Just doing everything fast, putting my foot in the ground, just driving just to take that fear away and I feel like I do that in practice a lot.”
What Did Trevon Diggs Say About Playing The Giants?
Diggs and the Cowboys are heavy favorites to pick up their first win against the New York Giants, and the two-time Pro Bowl cornerback is excited to play more snaps against their NFC East rivals.
“Still working,” Diggs said. “Just a little bit more [snaps] than last week is best and the smartest and safest thing to do. I feel like just increasing it a couple more plays and just working my way slowly.”
Diggs got a taste of Matt Eberflus’ defense Thursday in Philadelphia, and he was excited to be used in the unique ways the Cowboys defensive coordinator deployed him.
“This defense has been really cool to be a part of,” Diggs said. “Just the different coverages that we have, a lot of zone, a lot of man, corner blitzes, we’ve just got many coverages mixing it up and keeping an offense on their toes… I like it a lot, just being able to do the different things.”
Diggs is going to have his work cut out for him going against second-year Giants wideout Malik Nabers, who was a Pro Bowler in his rookie season. Diggs is aware of the damage Nabers, and veteran Giants quarterback Russell Wilson, can do if they team up — especially if the Cowboys don’t have DaRon Bland available Sunday.
“He’s going to be one of the top wide receivers in the NFL,” Diggs said of Nabers. “Runs good routes, got good speed, good hands, everything, full package. It’s going to be a good test for us this week, him being a great player, a veteran quarterback out there, so it’s going to be fun.”
Patriots Legend Rob Gronkowski Has Thoughts and Chiefs Fans Won’t Like It
The Kansa City Chiefs get an early chance to avenge their Super Bowl loss when they face the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday afternoon, in a game that will be nationally televised by the Fox Network. The NFL apparently believes that the interest in the Chiefs-Eagles game will be so high that the league has scheduled no other games in the Sunday afternoon 4:25 p.m. Eastern time slot.
The league probably is not wrong. The showdown comes with a number of storylines beyond the obvious one, that it will be a rematch of Super Bowl 59 just seven months after the Eagles rolled past the Chiefs — who were going for an unprecedented Super Bowl three-peat.
Chiefs Were a Mess in Week 1 Defeat
Instead, the Eagles rolled over a surprisingly lackluster Patrick Mahomes and his Chiefs in a one-sided, 40-22 affair, and the NFL retained its status as the only major North American pro sports league never to see a team win three championships in a row, at least not in the Super Bowl era which began in 1966.
Can the Chiefs get their act together? That’s another major storyline heading into the game. On September 5, in the NFL’s second annual “Brazil Game,” the Los Angeles Chargers danced past a disorganized-seeming Chiefs squad 27-21.
Not only did the game see Chiefs future Hall of Fame tight end Travis Kelce — fresh off his engagement to global pop mega-star Taylor Swift — catch just two passes (albeit one for a touchdown), he also inexplicably collided with wide receiver Xavier Worthy early in the first quarter.
The collision dislocated Worthy’s shoulder and ruled him out for the rest of the game — and possibly the Eagles matchup on Sunday as well.
On-Field Squabbling Bothers Gronk
Perhaps even more unsettling for the Chiefs, Kelce was seen berating offensive lineman Jawaan Taylor, who suffered four penalties in the loss, and late in the game when it became clear that the Kansas City defense could not contain quarterback Justin Herbert and the Chargers’ offense, linebacker Drue Tranquill and defensive tackle Chris Jones got into a verbal altercation on the field.
The infighting is what bothered commentator Rob Gronkowski, himself a future Hall of Fame tight end and three-time Super Bowl winner — twice with the New England Patriots, once with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Gronkowski: Chiefs Will ‘Fold’
Speaking to NFL Network reporter Kay Adams Wednesday, Gronkowski said that the Chiefs’ infighting surprised him, and was “not a good situation.”
“You want to come together when you’re down to figure out why things aren’t going the way they need to go. It’s not a good sign,” Gronkowski said. “They’ve got to get on the same page and not blame each other.”
But Gronkowski went even further, questioning whether the current Chiefs team has the character for another run at the Super Bowl, even suggesting the Chiefs — who have played in five of the last six Super Bowls and won three — would “fold.”
“The chiefs were like, whoa, they’re coming at us. How do we react? Well, they didn’t know how to react because no one was doing that before,” Gronkowski said, recalling the Kansas City performance in Super Bowl 59. “So the Philadelphia Eagles open that floodgate of, ‘Hey, if you punch these guys in the face, you take it to ’em. You come out swinging, they’re gonna fold, and they’re not gonna be the team that you’ve been seeing all last year.'”
In the current Chiefs’ run of success, it was Gronkowski’s Tampa Bay team that inflicted the first Super Bowl defeat on Mahomes and Co. easily crushing the Chiefs 31-9 in Super Bowl 55.
