Trevon Diggs can’t seem to escape his doubters, which sets up an intriguing return from his ACL tear.
The Athletic recently ran a redraft of the 2020 class. They broke down the class position by position and picked which order the players would be picked today if teams could do things over again. Diggs, drafted eighth in his position group originally, moved up four spots in the redraft to come in fourth amongst his peers.
Jaylon Johnson, A.J. Terrell and L’Jarius Sneed ranked above Diggs in the redraft, fanning the flames of disrespect and once again calling for Diggs to silence doubters across the league.
In all fairness, Johnson, Terrell and Snead are elite CBs in the NFL and deserve every bit of praise they’ve received in their journey. But Diggs is arguably the most talented ballhawk the NFL has seen in years and the benefits gained by his untraditional style of play have far outweighed the costs.
The reason Diggs has so many detractors across the NFL is because the style in which he plays. Where most CBs focus on technique and minimizing separation, Diggs plays things more naturally, willing to fall out-of-phase in coverage because he knows he has an uncanny ability to get back in-phases at a moment’s notice. It’s this that caused traditional grading sources like Pro Football Focus to rework their grading process and this that has caused so many wildly opposing evaluations of his game.
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