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NBC Sports
3 days ago
- Business
- NBC Sports
Trevon Diggs in danger of losing $500,000 for not rehabbing at team facility
Trevon Diggs is in danger of missing the 2025 season with a left knee injury. He also is in danger of losing $500,000 from his base salary for not rehabbing at the team facility. Todd Archer of ESPN reports that Diggs has not been at the team facility, opting instead to rehab in Miami. Diggs' contract stipulates that he must take part in 84.375 percent of the offseason program in order to avoid a $500,000 de-escalator. The Cowboys' mandatory minicamp is next week, and Diggs would be subject to fines for missing the three-day sessions. Executive vice president Stephen Jones, though, said he expects Diggs at The Star next week. The Cowboys place base-salary de-escalator clauses in their large contracts, which all but guarantees participation in the offseason program. Per Archer, Diggs is believed to be the first player who could see his base salary lowered if the Cowboys enforce the clause. Diggs tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a Week 3 practice in 2023. Diggs now is rehabbing the same knee after chondral bone graft surgery Jan. 23, which entails transplanting pieces of bone tissue into the joint to stimulate growth. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones publicly rebuked Diggs for his previous rehab, which was away from the team facility. Coach Brian Schottenheimer had a positive update Tuesday about Diggs' current rehab. 'It's going good,' Schottenheimer said. 'I talked to Trevon last week. He's down in Miami doing some training. No timeline for the return. He had to come back a couple of weeks ago to get checked out by the doc. All signs are positive.' Diggs, who twice has made the Pro Bowl, has a $9 million base salary for 2025. He has a salary cap hit of $12.5 million this season and next season is due a base salary of $14.5 million with an $18.4 million cap hit.
NBC Sports
25-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Morgan Moses had offseason surgery on knee injury from Week 3
New Patriots tackle Morgan Moses has yet to participate in full-team drills during the offseason program. He has a very good reason for it. Via Mike Reiss of Moses said he's recovering from offseason surgery to repair a knee injury. 'Just pacing things out,' Moses said. While playing for the Jets last season, Moses suffered an MCL sprain and a bone bruise during a Week 3 Thursday night win. He missed two games at the time. He also was inactive for the regular-season finale against the Dolphins. A third-round pick of the Commanders in 2014, the 34-year-old Morgan spent seven years in Washington before playing for the Jets in 2021 and again in 2024. In 2022 and 2023, Moses played for the Ravens. He signed a three-year, $24 million free-agent contract with the Patriots in March. He's one of several veteran players the Patriots have brought to town as they continue to try to return to contender status in the AFC.
NBC Sports
30-04-2025
- Business
- NBC Sports
Cowboys pleased with Trevon Diggs' rehab this time after previous frustrations
Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a Week 3 practice in 2023. During the rehab process, he did not rehab at the team facility full time. Diggs now is rehabbing the same knee after chondral bone graft surgery Jan. 23, which entails transplanting pieces of bone tissue into the joint to stimulate growth. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones publicly rebuked Diggs for his previous rehab, suggesting his missed time at the team facility could have made him 'more subject' to re-injuring the knee. 'He's working hard,' Jones said last week, via Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News. '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 returned for the start of the 2024 season after missing 15 games in 2023. He played 11 games before his most recent knee injury. His 2025 season is in question. Diggs, who twice has made the Pro Bowl, had his $9 million base salary for 2025 become fully guaranteed in March. He has a salary cap hit of $12.5 million this season and next season is due a base salary of $14.5 million with an $18.4 million cap hit.
USA Today
07-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Jayden Daniels caps electric debut season with NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Award
Jayden Daniels caps electric debut season with NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Award Show Caption Hide Caption 'A star is born': Erin Andrews has high praise for Commanders QB Jayden Daniels Erin Andrews explains why Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels is going to be the face of the franchise for years to come. Sports Seriously The idea that a rookie quarterback could be the savior of a NFL franchise is a trope that often lacks examples grounded in reality. Turnarounds require much more than one, first-year player – even if he plays the most important position in sports – and that was certainly the case for the 2024 Washington Commanders. Jayden Daniels is why teams and their decision-makers across the NFL will keep believing they're one young signal-caller away from relevance and success. If those future quarterbacks can even sniff what Daniels did last season, they'll be proven right. But what Daniels did for Washington and its starved fan base was one for the record books. On Thursday, Daniels was named the league's Offensive Rookie of the Year, an award for which he had the inside track throughout most – if not all – of the 2024 campaign. 'In my opinion, he's had the best rookie year of all time,' said Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud, who authored one of the best rookie seasons from a quarterback one year prior. There must be something about second overall picks raising the bar. Washington general manager Adam Peters, brought in by the new ownership group led by Josh Harris, hired Dan Quinn as the team's head coach. The newly established brain trust selected Daniels, the 2023 Heisman Trophy winner, with the No. 2 overall pick they owned – setting up a season of comparisons to Robert Griffin III's 2012 campaign, in which he was also named Offensive Rookie of the Year. Commanders fans hope the similarities in career trajectory end there. In Year 1, Daniels threw 25 touchdown passes (with nine interceptions) and 3,568 yards. He was electric with his feet and rushed 148 times for 891 yards – a rookie QB record and six touchdowns. His signature moment was a Hail Mary with zeroes on the clock to beat the Chicago Bears in Week 8. But he truly announced his arrival with a Week 3 touchdown on the national stage of 'Monday Night Football' late in the fourth quarter against the Cincinnati Bengals. He was the NFC Offensive Rookie of the Month for September, a grand introduction. Those clutch moments became a theme of his rookie year. Twelve of his touchdown passes were in the fourth quarter or overtime, the most by a rookie in NFL history. He had five touchdown passes in the final 30 seconds of regulation or overtime – two more than any quarterback, rookie or veteran, in any season since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. 'He's a unique talent,' Commanders wide receiver Jamison Crowder told USA TODAY Sports. 'Real poised. Real calm, in any situation. 'It's definitely been fun, exciting, watching him play.' Immediately, Daniels made an impression on his teammates. Veterans Zach Ertz, Marcus Mariota (his backup and also a former No. 2 pick who won the Heisman) and Bobby Wagner gravitated toward him. He regularly arrived at the team facility in Ashburn, Virginia, before 6 a.m. to conduct walk-throughs. 'I think it's just a snowball effect of how he goes about his business,' fellow rookie Ben Sinnott, a tight end, told USA TODAY Sports. 'You hear all the guys talk about it. And it's true. He's just got that 'it factor' about him. Super chill, super calm, and just keeps a level head. The way he goes about his business is super-impressive, in here putting in the work, grinding every single day. The people around him see it and gravitate towards that. It's really easy to see that, and obviously it's shown over the course of the season.' Daniels suffered a rib injury Week 7 against the Carolina Panthers that cost him basically the entire game. The so-called 'rookie wall' appeared to hit Daniels and the Commanders, as they lost three in a row in November. But Daniels was saving his best for the stretch run, as the Commanders won five straight games to end the regular season at 12-5 and clinch the sixth seed in the NFC. He became the first rookie to throw for five touchdowns and rush for more than 50 yards in a game, a Week 16 fourth-quarter comeback victory against the Philadelphia Eagles. Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio was asked whether Daniels was the best rookie quarterback he'd ever faced. Fangio, 66, has coached in the NFL every season but two since 1986. 'You know, probably, yeah,' he said. 'He's a young quarterback by birth certificate, not by the tape.' Daniels' next act was leading a game-winning drive in overtime against the Atlanta Falcons to secure the franchise's first playoff berth since the 2020 season. Washington went on the road to upset the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – with Daniels leading a game-winning field-goal drive – in the wild-card round then knocked off the top-seeded Detroit Lions six days later, with the offense scoring 38 points to lead the way to the franchise's first NFC title game in 33 years. Of the six rookie quarterbacks who have led their team to the conference championship game, Daniels is the only one who did not have a top-three scoring defense to complement him (Washington was 18th). Along the way, Daniels flashed his pearly smile after taking big hits and never looked daunted. He hardly celebrated the Commanders' game-winning field goal in Tampa Bay during the playoffs. 'He is an elite competitor. He really is,' head coach Dan Quinn said during the postseason. 'It's one of the things I admire most about him, that he just doesn't back down from the moments. I'd like to see less smiling in that instance and more in some of the others. 'On the sideline, he is 'The Terminator.' There's not a lot of stuff that's going to go on externally. He can really stay in it.' And everyone around Washington wanted him to stay that way for a long time.
