Trevon Diggs analysis: What the stats say about Packers new cornerback

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Help has arrived for the Green Bay Packers’ beleaguered cornerback room, after the team claimed Trevon Diggs off waivers from the Dallas Cowboys. The former All-Pro will not have long to make an impression in Green Bay, but what should fans expect from their newest defensive back?

Here’s what the stats say about Diggs and the impact he could have for Jeff Hafley’s defense:

Strengths

The most prominent strength of Diggs’ game is his ball skills and ability to take the ball away.

While he does not have a pick yet this season, the corner ranked in the 84th percentile on average in interceptions per target between 2021 and 2024 compared to his positional peers, excluding 2023 when an ACL injury meant he missed most of the season.

Diggs enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2021 by picking off 11 passes, and his ballhawking style will be welcome in Green Bay’s defensive backfield, which has not managed to generate enough turnovers this season.

Another statistical area in which Diggs excels is snaps per reception allowed, as he has ranked in the 68th percentile on average since 2021.

Perhaps it is because of his reputation for taking the football away that teams are reluctant to throw at him, but even in a nightmare 2025 season when he has allowed a perfect 158.3 passer rating when targeted, he ranks second in the NFL in snaps per target.

Whatever the reason, opponents have not wanted to go after Diggs in recent years, even if he is not playing well, which is obviously helpful for the defense he plays in.

The 2025 season has been a disaster for Diggs in basically every aspect, but there are some more promising numbers in his previous three full campaigns. The former Cowboy ranked in the 63rd percentile on average in forced incompletion rate between 2021 and 2024.

The statistics show that he is much stronger in zone coverage, and this is how he will be best used in Green Bay.

Between 2021 and 2024, Diggs ranked above average compared to the rest of the league in reception percentage allowed, forced incompletion rate, NFL passer rating allowed, yards allowed per snap and snaps per reception allowed.

Weaknesses

On the flipside, Diggs has not been an effective man coverage player even when he was enjoying more fruitful seasons overall.

Since 2021, he ranks in the 39th percentile or worse in reception percentage allowed, forced incompletion rate, NFL passer rating allowed, yards allowed per snap and snaps per reception allowed when in man coverage.

Dallas has utilized man coverage at about the same rate as Green Bay this season, so a change of scheme is unlikely to hide his man coverage deficiencies in that respect. It has been a problem throughout his career and will probably continue to be.

Diggs is also one of the more flagged corners in the league, ranking in the 31st percentile on average in penalties allowed per coverage snap. There is a strong element of ‘feast or famine’ to his game. There will be big plays, but there will also be difficult moments.

The cornerback is a below average run defender at his position, ranking in the 38th percentile or lower in missed tackle rate, stop rate (tackles resulting in a failure for the offense) and tackles made per run defense snap.

With Nate Hobbs out for the year, the bar Diggs has to clear might just be whether he can defend the run better than Carrington Valentine, who has struggled with it throughout his career. That said, do not expect Diggs to represent a significant upgrade in that regard.

Diggs is also a perimeter-only cornerback, having played in the slot for just 39 snaps in the last two seasons. Fortunately, the Packers do not need a slot corner as they have Javon Bullard, as well as Keisean Nixon who can play inside, as well as Hobbs when healthy.

On the whole, Diggs profiles as right around, or a just above league average cornerback, but how well he plays mostly depends on whether he is in man or zone coverage.

If the Packers believe his poor play from this season is an anomaly, and at least in part due to the fractured relationship Diggs seemed to have with the Cowboys, there is reason to be optimistic that he can be a strong zone corner and provide real value in that way.

Whether this partnership lasts beyond this season will depend entirely on how Diggs performs in the next two weeks.

This article originally appeared on Packers Wire: Trevon Diggs analysis: What the stats say about Packers new cornerback

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