Trevon Diggs may be headed toward another chapter in the NFC, and it could come with a familiar edge for Cowboys fans.
The veteran cornerback, who spent six seasons in Dallas before being released last year, is still looking for a landing spot for the 2026 season. On Sunday, he reportedly got a tryout with the Detroit Lions - a team that has built a real recent history with the Cowboys.
That matters because Dallas and Detroit have met in each of the last four seasons, splitting the series. The Cowboys took the first two, including the 2023 game that ended in controversy and left Lions fans furious. Detroit answered by winning the last two meetings in convincing fashion, putting up more than 40 points in both games.
The 2024 matchup in particular still lingers. Detroit’s 47-9 win in Dallas drew accusations that the Lions were running up the score and showing disrespect by leaning on trick plays when the game was already out of hand. If Diggs ends up signing there, he’d be stepping into that tension and adding another layer to a rivalry that has only grown sharper lately.
For Dallas, Diggs was once the kind of defensive playmaker teams build around. He made the Pro Bowl twice and piled up 20 interceptions in 66 games, with 11 of those picks coming in his second season alone. At that point, it looked like the Cowboys had found a cornerstone corner.
They paid him like one, too. Dallas gave Diggs a five-year, $97 million extension that could reach $104 million, with $42.3 million guaranteed.
But the rest of the story never matched the early rise. A torn ACL limited him to two games in 2023, and a cartilage issue ended his next season on injured reserve. Last year, his production dropped off, and the relationship with the franchise clearly frayed.
It came to a head after the Cowboys’ Christmas Day game in Washington, when Diggs went against Brian Schottenheimer’s requirement that the team fly home together. Dallas released him soon after.
His first stop after that was another NFC rival, the Green Bay Packers. Diggs appeared in one regular-season game and one postseason game there before returning to free agency, where he remains now.
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