Dak Prescott gives one-word response to Trevon Diggs request to play wide receiver
Could the 4-1 Dallas Cowboys find a way to use Trevon Diggs as a receiver? Definitely. But quarterback Dak Prescott isn’t chomping at the bit for the star corner to switch sides of the ball.
Prescott told Diggs to “relax,” after the second-year corner out of Alabama requested some offensive reps in practice. However, the Cowboys’ QB1 also conceded they might have to start considering it.
The NFL record for interceptions in a season is 14. At his current pace with six through five games, Diggs would finish the year with 20 interceptions. At some point, teams will stop throwing his way, but they haven’t quite figured that out yet.
“If they keep throwing at the kid, he’s gonna get more,” star running back Ezekiel Elliott said Monday. “You keep throwing at 7, he’s gonna pick you off. I think it’s about time QBs stop looking his way.”
Diggs has the second-best odds in Vegas for defensive player of the year after Week 5. He’s behind Cleveland Browns edge Myles Garrett who has seven sacks and 20 tackles through five games.
The Maryland native is coming off a rookie season in which he recorded a sack and three interceptions.
Diggs cried over move to cornerback
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs spoke on Sunday about a decision Alabama head coach Nick Saban made for him when his college football career began. Originally joining Alabama as a wide receiver, Saban had Diggs switch to defensive back his sophomore season.
“Honestly, I couldn’t see what Saban was trying to do at the time,” Diggs told Michael Irvin on his podcast. “I thought it was just [him] trying to switch my position. But he really believed in me, he really saw something in me, you know, and I had to see it in myself to make it happen.”
Diggs called his brother Stefon crying that day.
“Honestly, I cried. I called him and I was crying,” Diggs recalled to Irvin. “I’m like, ‘Bro, he’s trying to switch my position’… He’s like, forget all that, you know what you gotta do. You know what you’re supposed to do. You played it before, let’s just get to the grind. Let’s get to it.
“So that’s basically what his message to me was, but at first I was crying. And I just sucked it up and got to work.”
Now in his second season as an NFL player, Diggs has exploded as one of the most dangerous cornerbacks in the league. Drafted with the 51st pick of the 2020 NFL Draft, the emergence of Diggs has helped the Cowboys jump out to a 4-1 start on the season with their eyes and hopes turned towards the postseason early.
On3’s Austin Brezina contributed to this report.