{"id":335577,"date":"2025-10-27T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:51:51","slug":"jones-schottenheimer-open-up-on-cowboys-decision-to-place-cb-trevon-diggs-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335577\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones, Schottenheimer open up on Cowboys\u2019 decision to place CB Trevon Diggs on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">DENVER \u2014 Cowboys officials made their first comments since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/10\/25\/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-ir-concussion-injured-reserve-out-4-games\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/10\/25\/dallas-cowboys-trevon-diggs-ir-concussion-injured-reserve-out-4-games\/\">placing cornerback Trevon Diggs on injured reserve<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/10\/26\/dallas-cowboys-denver-broncos-takeaways-defense-loss\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/10\/26\/dallas-cowboys-denver-broncos-takeaways-defense-loss\/\">the Cowboys\u2019 loss to the Broncos on Sunday,<\/a> team owner Jerry Jones and coach Brian Schottenheimer said Diggs needs to get healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Diggs is dealing with a knee issue and concussion symptoms. Schottenheimer said Diggs,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/10\/24\/dallas-cowboys-injury-updates-trevon-diggs-broncos\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/10\/24\/dallas-cowboys-injury-updates-trevon-diggs-broncos\/\"> who was placed in concussion protocol last week, <\/a>remains in the first phase. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">There are five stages a player must pass when he\u2019s in the concussion protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Cowboys fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cAfter visiting with the medical staff, we felt like in the best interest of the team and Trevon was to get him back healthy,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cHe missed last game (Washington). He was going to miss this game. He is not through phase one yet of the concussion protocol. The knee has been problematic throughout the season. There\u2019s been games (of) \u2018Can he play? Can he not?\u2019 He\u2019s a really good player and we just want to get him back and get him healthy again to be able to help us finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jones said Diggs needs to get in shape physically before he can return to the field. Diggs is eligible to come off IR for the Nov. 27 game against Kansas City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jones was asked if Diggs would play again for the Cowboys this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWhy not?\u201d he said. \u201cYes. But there\u2019s a little beyond my expectations. We got to see how he heals from his injury. He hasn\u2019t been physically there in full shape for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Cowboys officials made their first comments since placing cornerback Trevon Diggs on injured reserve on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":335578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,29841,10768,7311,1596,8998,50027,1232,62,358,30501,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-335577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brian-schottenheimer","10":"tag-brief","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-jerry-jones","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-trevon-diggs","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115445048499202692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}