{"id":748635,"date":"2026-02-13T06:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748635\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:33:14","slug":"cowboys-great-says-trevon-diggs-never-bought-into-the-cowboys-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748635\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys great says Trevon Diggs never bought into the Cowboys culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 12, 2026, 7:12 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" data-autotag=\"7af2161d-a8dd-41a5-87e2-32eb5b028473\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> shocked the NFL when they cut cornerback Trevon Diggs this past season, but inside the organization, it didn\u2019t come as much of a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Diggs had fallen out of favor with the organization, and they finally decided to do something about it by cutting him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cowboys great Emerson Walls explained during a recent interview with 105.3 the Fan why the team cut Diggs. He says it was his actions off the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThere are some relationships that you think you can handle more than you thought. There are some relationships that are up and down,\u201d Walls said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He added, \u201cI\u2019m sure Trevon thought that this was going to work out, but you\u2019ve got to do your part. There are rumors that he wasn\u2019t doing that, and I\u2019m not talking about on the field, necessarily. I\u2019m talking about buying into the culture of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Cowboys were not pleased that Diggs did not consult their doctors about his knee injury, and he remained on the injured reserve list for most of the 2025 season. Even when he returned, he wasn\u2019t himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Walls felt that Diggs never fully bought into what the team was selling, which caused a major rift between the two parties that never healed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12, 2026, 7:12 p.m. ET The Dallas Cowboys shocked the NFL when they cut cornerback Trevon Diggs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[95878,230,229,257,2461,7,6,99115,99116,95882,96256,95896,95888,95895,95897,95883,97162,99683,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-748635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-cowboys","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfltouchdown","16":"tag-sstsntouchdown","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagdallas-cowboys","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-negative","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-tagstefon-diggs","25":"tag-tagtrevon-diggs","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116061929903305358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748635","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=748635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}