Cowboys Reportedly Enforce Trevon Diggs Contract Clause, CB Loses $500K in Salary

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs will lose $500,000 from his 2025 salary after not meeting minimum offseason workout requirements stipulated in his contract, Calvin Watkins reported on Thursday for the Dallas Morning News.

The Cowboys had the option of not enforcing the penalty on Diggs, who is recovering from offseason knee surgery, according to Watkins.

Diggs was heading into 2025 on a base salary of $9 million, per Spotrac. He "is believed to be the first player" who has had his base salary lowered, according to ESPN's Todd Archer.

Archer previously reported that Diggs would need to participate in 84.375 percent of the Cowboys' offseason program to fulfill the workout clause.

The cornerback's contract stipulates that an injured player must participate in "supervised rehabilitation" with the team's head trainer in order to meet the minimum workout requirement, according to Archer.

Although Diggs reported for mandatory minicamp in June, Archer wrote that the cornerback has largely chosen to undergo his rehabilitation away from team facilities in Miami.

Diggs underwent knee surgery in January after sitting out the last six games of the 2024 season. The procedure was "a chondral tissue graft in which pieces of bone and cartilage were transplanted into the affected area to improve the joint function," Archer reported in January.

Head coach Brian Schottenheimer said toward the end of voluntary OTAs earlier this summer that Diggs was "down in Miami doing some training" and did not have a timeline for his return to the field.

DallasCowboys.com's Mickey Spagnola indicated last week that the Cowboys weren't entirely certain about Diggs' status because he had "chosen to do his rehabilitation apart from the Cowboys trainers."

"Now the Cowboys training staff has been monitoring his rehab progress from afar, and did work with him during the three-day minicamp, but chances are Diggs will begin training camp on PUP just so they can continue working with him to better monitor his progress firsthand," Spagnola wrote.

Diggs has played just 13 games over the last two seasons due to injuries, including a torn ACL in 2023. Archer reported last December that Diggs' latest injury had not damaged the repair done on the ACL.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in April that he hoped Diggs' previous rehab experience would help him with "working hard" in recovering from his latest knee surgery.

“He’s working hard,” Jones said, per Watkins. “That’s very important because if he will be very good and diligent as to his rehab process, then he’ll get back quicker, and he will arrive when he does get back, sounder than if he has not worked as hard. He’s more subject to injury. He’s learned that one time. My point is, I have a lot of hope that his actual rehab and experience from the time before is really helping him out, and I think it has.”

Diggs told reporters in June that his goal is to return in time for Week 1 of the 2025 season, per Watkins, although Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that he is expected to miss at least the first four weeks of the campaign. The Cowboys could provide an update on his status when the team reports for training camp on July 20.