Dallas Cowboys govt vp Stephen Jones responded to star cornerback Trevon Diggs opting to rehab away from the team’s facility on Tuesday in an look on 105.3 The Fan. As a result of Diggs rehabbed elsewhere after his offseason knee surgical procedure, the group exercised its proper to penalize him and docked his wage by $500,000 — a transfer that “hurt” the feelings of the star cornerback.
“He actually paid a value for not being right here,” Jones mentioned via The Athletic. “However we’re paying a value, too, as a result of we felt like he’d could be additional alongside had he executed his rehab right here. He could differ with that. However had he executed his rehab right here, we really feel strongly that he could be additional alongside. That is in the perfect curiosity of the group and the group that comes with getting a giant contract, which he acquired.”
Diggs signed a five-year, $97 million contract extension in 2023, and a part of the deal included a clause stipulating that the group might dock his wage by $500,000 if he missed a minimum of 84% of the Cowboys’ organized group actions within the spring, in keeping with the Dallas Morning News. Diggs elected to rehab from offseason knee surgical procedure in South Florida as a substitute of the Cowboys’ group facility in Frisco, Texas.
Cowboys’ Trevon Diggs has ‘hurt’ feelings after Dallas uses contract clause to dock its Pro Bowl CB $500,000
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Jones mentioned the star cornerback could be “higher off” rehabbing within the group amenities than elsewhere.
“I believe a participant is significantly better off coaching with us than he’s someplace else,” Jones mentioned via The Athletic. “I simply suppose the self-discipline to come back in every single day, do the work is there after they’re right here. … One factor we are able to do, which we are going to proceed to do is put in each participant’s contract, particularly guys that we pay important quantities of cash, we count on management and we count on them to be right here. Definitely we addressed that with Diggs.”
Diggs appeared in 11 video games through the 2024 season and completed with 42 whole tackles and two interceptions. The previous second-round choose from the 2020 NFL Draft appeared in simply two video games through the 2023 marketing campaign, two years faraway from recording 11 interceptions through the 2021 season.