Cowboys CB Diggs in danger of forfeiting $500K

FRISCO, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs is successful information of missing retired connected $500,000 from his 2025 basal wage for not participating successful the team's offseason program.

Diggs has opted to rehab his surgically repaired near genu successful Miami and distant from The Star. He was not successful attendance for the archetypal 2 phases of the offseason programme and has not taken portion successful the organized squad activities the past 3 weeks.

According to his contract, Diggs needs to instrumentality portion successful 84.375% of the offseason programme successful bid to debar the $500,000 de-escalator.

The Cowboys' mandatory minicamp runs June 10-12. Any subordinate that misses the minicamp is taxable to fines arsenic well.

While the offseason programme is voluntary, for years the Cowboys person base-salary de-escalator clauses written into their ample contracts that person been fixed out, including for backmost Dak Prescott, wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and antiaircraft tackle Osa Odighizuwa that each but guarantees a player's participation.

Diggs is believed to beryllium the archetypal subordinate that could spot a lowering of his basal wage if the Cowboys take to enforce the clause.

Even though Diggs is rehabilitating from surgery, the declaration states a player, "must rehabilitate specified wounded arsenic required by and nether the supervision of the Club's Head Trainer until specified clip arsenic afloat information successful the "Off-Season Program" tin beryllium achieved. Supervised rehabilitation by Player with Club's Head Trainer volition number towards Player's 84.375% completion requirement."

Head manager Brian Schottenheimer said helium spoke with Diggs past week and noted Diggs had a checkup with the squad doctors recently.

"All signs are positive," Schottenheimer said.

Executive vice president Stephen Jones said Diggs is "being diligent," successful his rehab, but besides said the team's penchant is for Diggs to rehab with the organization.

"Our knowing is he's getting the enactment done and he'll beryllium backmost in, and we'll get a bully look astatine him adjacent week [at the minicamp]," Jones said.

Last year, determination was immoderate vexation from the enactment successful however Diggs approached his rehab from the ACL. Speaking during draught weekend, proprietor and wide manager Jerry Jones said Diggs is "working hard."

"That's precise important due to the fact that if helium volition beryllium precise bully and diligent arsenic to his rehab process, past he'll get backmost quicker," Jones said then. "And helium volition arrive, erstwhile helium does get back, sounder than if helium has not worked arsenic hard. He's much taxable to injury. He's learned that 1 time. My constituent is, I person a batch of anticipation that his existent rehab and acquisition from the clip earlier is truly helping him out."

Diggs is scheduled to marque $9 cardinal this twelvemonth nether the five-year, $97 cardinal woody helium signed successful 2023.

In the past 2 years, helium has played successful 13 of a imaginable 34 regular-season games due to the fact that of injury. In 2023, helium suffered a torn ACL during signifier earlier the 3rd crippled of the season. Last year, helium was constricted to 11 games earlier a cartilage contented ended his year.

In January, Diggs underwent a chondral insubstantial graft successful which pieces of bony and cartilage were transplanted into the affected country of his genu to amended the associated function. The timing of the country was related to the increasing of the graft to assistance nutrient the champion results.

Diggs is apt to commencement grooming campy connected the physically incapable to execute list. If helium opens the play connected PUP, past helium would miss astatine slightest the archetypal 4 games. Former Cowboys wide receiver Noah Brown underwent a akin process and continued his career.

"[We] won't person a consciousness for erstwhile he's going to beryllium capable to get successful the mediate of everything until we get to grooming campy erstwhile we're with him time successful and time retired and spot however he's progressing," Stephen Jones said.

There is immoderate interest astatine cornerback with the Diggs' wounded and the nonaccomplishment of nickel cornerback Jourdan Lewis successful escaped agency.

The Cowboys person 2024 Pro Bowler DaRon Bland steadfast aft helium missed the archetypal 10 games past play due to the fact that of ft country past August. The Cowboys traded for first-round prime Kaiir Elam from the Buffalo Bills successful the offseason.

In the draft, they selected Shavon Revel successful the 3rd round, but helium is recovering from an ACL wounded suffered past September astatine East Carolina and mightiness not beryllium acceptable for the commencement of grooming campy either. Caelen Carson, a fourth-round prime past year, is moving backmost from offseason enarthrosis surgery, and Josh Butler is successful the midst of a instrumentality from a torn ACL arsenic well.