Packers find themselves in a rare advantageous window to evaluate Trevon Diggs and make a meaningful long-term decision
Green Bay has Diggs under contract through 2028.
When the Green Bay Packers decided to claim Trevon Diggs off waivers from the Dallas Cowboys ahead of Week 18, there was a relatively high cost of doing it — around $500k for one regular season game. But that was part of the calculus to have an offseason advantage.
How it works and what the Packers will decide on Diggs
Had Diggs cleared waivers, he would probably sign a one-year deal, prompting him to reach free agency in March. Sure, you would still be the only team with the rights to negotiate an extension until the new league year, but he would hit unrestricted free agency afterwards.
Now, Trevon Diggs is under contract with the Packers through 2028. The Packers will likely not keep him under the current terms — $15.5 million in 2026, $20.5 million in 2027, and $21 million in 2028.
But it’s fair to point out that no team has a better chance to have Trevon Diggs on the roster in 2026 than the Packers. Because they have him under control now, the Packers have zero motivation to move on from him before March.
More than that, the Packers have a two-month window to negotiate a restructured version of his contract. Diggs will have to take a paycut, and it’s highly unlikely that any team would be willing to pay him that much — that’s the reason why the Packers were the only team to put a waiver claim on him after all.
In exchange, the Packers could agree to void the final two years of Diggs’ deal, for example, giving him the chance to rebound in 2026, rebuild his market value, and hit free agency in 2027.
Performance and chances
Trevon Diggs played significant snaps when key starters sat in Week 18 against the Minnesota Vikings and did a respectable job against a starting opposing offense that included Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison at wide receiver.
In the playoff loss to the Chicago Bears, though, Diggs barely played — there isn’t a rotation at cornerback, and the Packers unsurprisingly started Keisean Nixon, Carrington Valentine, and Javon Bullard in the three CB spots.
But with a new deal in place and potentially a full training camp to acclimate, Trevon Diggs could be a fine piece on a roster that doesn’t have as many avenues to improve its cornerback situation as general manager Brian Gutekunst would like.
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