Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs: ‘We don’t care about no list’

When Dallas lost Trevon Diggs to a knee injury two games into the 2023 NFL season, DaRon Bland was forced into the Cowboys’ starting lineup. Bland responded with nine interceptions, set an NFL record by returning five for touchdowns and made first-team All-Pro.

With Diggs returning for the 2024 campaign, Dallas will have a former first-team All-Pro at each cornerback spot. Diggs earned the honor in 2021 when he intercepted 11 passes, the most in the league in 40 years.

  But this summer, when ESPN released a survey of “league executives, coaches and scouts” to name the NFL’s top 10 cornerbacks, neither Diggs nor Bland appeared. The Denver Broncos’ Patrick Surtain II, a former Alabama teammate of Diggs’, held the No. 1 spot.

Diggs figures he and Bland should have been “1A, 1B.”

“I feel like I’m in a league of my own,” Diggs said on Wednesday. “There’s nobody that can do what I do. There’s nobody that can do what Bland does. I feel like we’re in a league of our own, and that’s that. We don’t care about no list. Our work is going to show on the field. You can pull up another DB on that list that did anything that we did? Show me.”

Diggs said he’s “super excited to get on the field with” Bland as the former Crimson Tide cornerback continues his comeback from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

“I wasn’t surprised,” Diggs said of Bland’s showing last season. “I expected him to have a big year. His rookie year, he did really good, and you only could build on that, so I expected him to do really good last year.”