{"id":422301,"date":"2026-01-20T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:23:08","slug":"green-bay-packers-free-up-cap-space-with-release-of-cornerback-trevon-diggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422301\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers free up cap space with release of cornerback Trevon Diggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/trevon-diggs\/377077\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/player\/trevon-diggs\/377077\" target=\"_blank\">Trevon Diggs<\/a>\u2019s time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/green-bay-packers\/304\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/green-bay-packers\/304\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> is already at its end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team announced the release of the cornerback on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Diggs, 27, appeared in regular season game and the team\u2019s NFC wild-card round loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/chicago-bears\/305\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/chicago-bears\/305\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a>. In the two games, he recorded a combined three tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Alabama product had been claimed off of waivers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/dallas-cowboys\/291\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/dallas-cowboys\/291\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> on Dec. 31. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With the move, the Packers free up $15.5 million of cap space. The Cowboys incurred a $5.8 million dead cap hit by waiving him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Gaithersburg, MD, Diggs just completed his sixth NFL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For his career, the two-time Pro Bowler has 242 tackles and 20 interceptions, including two pick-sixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trevon Diggs\u2019s time with the Green Bay Packers is already at its end. The team announced the release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[712,49,48,74825,514,82,161288],"class_list":["post-422301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-green-bay-packers-sports-football-team-team-statscom-335","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-trevon-diggs-sports-football-player-player-statscom-932709"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422301","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=422301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}