{"id":122805,"date":"2025-06-12T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122805\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:31:10","slug":"cowboys-trevon-diggs-sets-record-straight-on-rehab-work-reveals-lofty-comeback-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/122805\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Trevon Diggs sets record straight on rehab work, reveals lofty comeback goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRISCO \u2014 Trevon Diggs<\/a> has a goal of returning from left knee surgery sooner than expected.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys cornerback<\/a> is currently doing rehab work at The Star and in Florida as he\u2019s recovering from surgery for a chondral tissue graft<\/a> that replaced damaged cartilage in joints with tissue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be back for the first game,\u201d Diggs said after Wednesday\u2019s mandatory minicamp practice.<\/p>\n

That first game is Sept. 4 at Philadelphia.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Diggs is used to proving people wrong. <\/p>\n

In September 2023, he tore the ACL in his left knee<\/a> and was expected to return in October 2024. Diggs played in the 2024 season opener.<\/p>\n

Diggs said he was early \u2014 not late, not on time, but early \u2014in his return to the field. This time it\u2019s different.<\/p>\n

The surgery is considered more serious than the ACL surgery. Diggs said his rehab work is easier this time. He said he doesn\u2019t have soreness or swelling in the knee and feels he can play now.<\/p>\n

All he\u2019s allowed to do is rehab, which has become a point of contention within the Cowboys organization.<\/a> Yes, Diggs is working out with his trainers, not consistently with the Cowboys\u2019 training staff. <\/p>\n

Related:Cowboys need Trevon Diggs to attack knee surgery rehab after frustrations of the past<\/a><\/p>\n

Team owner Jerry Jones intimated Diggs\u2019 knee injury in 2024 could be a direct result of questionable rehab habits recovering from the torn ACL.<\/p>\n

Diggs said the injury he suffered last season has nothing to do with the 2023 injury. When it comes to why he\u2019s not working out with the team medical staff regularly, he feels comfortable with his people.<\/p>\n

He stressed Myron Flowers, a performance and fitness coach, is someone who has known him and his brother, NFL wideout Stefon Diggs, since they were teenagers. It\u2019s Flowers that\u2019s assigned by Diggs to get him through rehab these last two years. <\/p>\n

Yet, Diggs\u2019 absences from offseason workouts might cost him. If he works out less than 84% of the time at The Star, which is now the case, he could lose $500,000 of his $9 million base salary. <\/a>Team officials haven\u2019t decided if they plan to reduce his salary.<\/p>\n

Related:Trevon Diggs appears at Cowboys minicamp, but could still lose $500K from base salary<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on how relaxed Diggs was in the locker room on Wednesday during a spirited pingpong match between Micah Parsons and Jay Toia, it didn\u2019t seem anything was bothering him.<\/p>\n

However, things bother him.<\/p>\n

This offseason, he mentioned the perception he\u2019s not working out hard forced him to release a documentary on YouTube called \u201cSeven,\u201d<\/a> after his jersey number. It shows Diggs\u2019 rehab work from a torn ACL last year. He plans to release another type of documentary this year about rehab work in 2025.<\/p>\n

Diggs said he would rather let his play speak for him more than anything else. Last year, he confronted a reporter following a loss at San Francisco<\/a> because of criticism. Diggs later apologized for the incident.<\/a> In some ways, you forget just how good Diggs is. <\/p>\n

He led the NFL with 11 interceptions in 2021, which included a pair of pick-sixes. He earned Pro Bowl selections in 2021 and 2022 and was an All-Pro pick in 2021. <\/p>\n

But there are questions about whether he plays with a physicality, especially in the open field. His health has also taken control of the conversation more than what he can do on the field. <\/p>\n

During Diggs\u2019 rehab work, away from the team, Parsons reached out to see if he was OK. He visited him in Florida and Diggs wrote Parsons a note thanking him for the support. <\/p>\n

Parsons told him he can become the Comeback Player of the Year in 2025. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe don\u2019t really show a lot of emotion,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to get more than a couple of words out of him so just to get that message out meant a lot to me just as a friend. I\u2019m happy that he\u2019s in a bright spot. He\u2019s doing better and I just hope he has the year that he wants to. I\u2019m telling him you got to put it into overdrive now. No more excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO \u2014 Trevon Diggs has a goal of returning from left knee surgery sooner than expected. The Cowboys…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[1101,230,229,257,2461,7,6,9,3428],"class_list":{"0":"post-122805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-trevon-diggs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114667813949388897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}