{"id":29952,"date":"2025-07-23T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29952\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:28:07","slug":"trevon-diggs-on-having-pay-reduced-for-missing-offseason-workouts-it-hurt-my-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29952\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevon Diggs on having pay reduced for missing offseason workouts: “It hurt my feelings”"},"content":{"rendered":"

To incentivize players to show up for the offseason, most teams use workout bonuses. The Cowboys are in the small minority that uses a salary de-escalator.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about the player making extra money. It\u2019s about losing the money he was due to make, if he doesn\u2019t show up for the offseason program.<\/p>\n

And so, in lieu of cornerback Trevon Diggs giving up the ability to make $500,000 more, the team was able to reduce his salary by $500,000 because he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t expect that<\/a>,\u201d Diggs told reporters on Tuesday when asked for his reaction to the move. \u201cThat kind of hurt my feelings. But it\u2019s OK. Hopefully, I\u2019ll make it back in incentives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under his contract, Diggs gets $300,000 for five interceptions in 2025, and another $300,000 if he gets to seven.<\/p>\n

Those incentives are in his contract, same as the de-escalators. And the Joneses accurately spelled that out on Monday<\/a>. Diggs didn\u2019t show up, and so his salary was reduced.<\/p>\n

Given the human issues created by the activation of a salary de-escalator, it makes much more sense to rely on workout bonuses. Look at the Ravens and Lamar Jackson. For two straight offseasons, he has failed to earn a $750,000 workout bonus. The outcome would have had a much different vibe if the Ravens had affirmatively reduced his salary by that amount each year.<\/p>\n

But, hey, these are the Cowboys. No one is going to ever accuse them of being smart when it comes to how to properly handle their workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To incentivize players to show up for the offseason, most teams use workout bonuses. The Cowboys are in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-29952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}