{"id":377883,"date":"2025-12-30T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:42:08","slug":"reports-cowboys-release-cornerback-trevon-diggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377883\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Cowboys release cornerback Trevon Diggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys are moving on from one of their prominent defensive players. <\/p>\n<p>Trevon Diggs will be released by the Cowboys after being placed on waivers Tuesday, The Athletic&#8217;s Jane Slater <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlaterNFL\/status\/2006068487039623640\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If he goes unclaimed, the cornerback will become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Diggs is in the second year of a five-year, $97 million contract that made him one of the highest-paid defensive backs in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has played in just eight games this season and has seen a decline in his play since suffering a torn ACL back in September 2023. He led the NFL in interceptions back in 2021 with 11. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas selected Diggs in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys are moving on from one of their prominent defensive players. Trevon Diggs will be released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}