{"id":654210,"date":"2026-01-04T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/654210\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:31:11","slug":"trevon-diggs-has-a-chance-to-start-for-the-packers-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/654210\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevon Diggs has a chance to start for the Packers in the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When cornerback Trevon Diggs was brought to the Green Bay Packers off a waiver claim via the Dallas Cowboys, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-news\/77470\/packers-awarded-former-all-pro-cb-trevon-diggs-on-waivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I assumed that the team was going to use him as emergency depth moving forward<\/a>. Remember, just last week, the Packers lost cornerbacks Nate Hobbs and Kamal Hadden to injuries that placed them on the injured reserve, which means that at the earliest we\u2019ll see them back in green and gold for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the way the Packers deployed their cornerbacks on Sunday, saving Carrington Valentine from seeing any playing time in a meaningless game (like other codified starters on the team) and only playing Keisean Nixon for five snaps, it sure seemed like the team was going to ride out the Valentine-Nixon combo for the playoffs. But on Sunday, after the loss to the Minnesota Vikings, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur said that they are still considering Diggs as a possible starter for the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For what it\u2019s worth, Diggs played 32 snaps of defense in Week 18, as many as practice-squad call-up Shemar Bartholomew and fewer than another practice-squad cornerback in Jaylin Simpson (59).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this week, defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley stated that he hoped that Diggs would be able to get on the field against the Vikings, but that he wasn\u2019t confident that Diggs was going to be able to in such a short turnaround. Obviously, he was able to get playing time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At a minimum, Diggs should be the Packers\u2019 third outside cornerback option in the wild card round, but maybe he\u2019ll surprise us all and make a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When cornerback Trevon Diggs was brought to the Green Bay Packers off a waiver claim via the Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2703,2702,2704,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-654210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-depth-chart","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-green-bay-packers-roster","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115838968513727753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654210","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=654210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}