Now a member of the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, former Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs made his first appearance on HBO's "Hard Knocks" on Tuesday.
Diggs signed with Seattle last week and is getting settled into the Seahawks' defense. In the most recent episode of "Hard Knocks", which is documenting Seattle's training camp this offseason, Diggs was shown in a sit-down meeting with Seahawks GM John Schneider in which they discussed his recovery from last season's injuries.
Diggs had an awful 2025 season, with issues both on and off the field that eventually resulted in the Cowboys waiving him in December. He briefly signed with the Packers before being released and was a free agent until he joined up with the Seahawks.
Schneider can be seen telling Diggs, "We do have a style of play..." likely referring to the hard-nosed reputation of the Seattle defense, one which carried it to a championship last year. Diggs attested that he was still recovering from knee surgery, which, along with a concussion he suffered at his home, forced him to miss two months last season.
"Last year I wasn't powerful," Diggs told Schneider. "I wasn't feeling the power in my leg that I needed. I could go, I could go out [on the field]. But I wasn't really effective, wasn't feeling twitchy and powerful."
Diggs says this is the first fully healthy offseason he's had since 2022.
That's all true, but in fairness, Diggs' struggles in 2025 weren't all injury-based, not by a long shot. Cowboys coaches were frequently calling for more consistency from the former All-Pro corner, who had $500,000 deducted from his paycheck to start last season after the Cowboys deemed he didn't do enough of his contractually required rehab work with the team's training staff.
He was also reportedly a repeated offender of team rules and was the lone player on the roster not to fly back to Texas with the team after a Christmas Day game against the Commanders. He was waived five days later.
Diggs gets a fresh start in Seattle where we'll find out if he can bounce back from the year-to-forget that was his final season in Dallas.
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