Wow, what a ride it was.
Someday, Trevon Diggs may be the answer to an obscure trivia question regarding the Green Bay Packers. After the Dallas Cowboys unceremoniously waived the former All-Pro cornerback late this season, the Packers picked up Diggs on waivers, paying the remainder of his base salary for the final week of the 2025 regular season. The Packers needed bodies at cornerback in Week 18 and as depth for the playoffs, and Diggs was available. Great.
Diggs started the Packers’ final regular season game — a meaningless contest as the team had already locked in the #7 seed in the NFC — playing 33 snaps on defense and two on special teams while making a pair of tackles. In doing so, he earned his final game check of the year, worth approximately $531,000 or so, and was available for the Packers in the postseason.
Then, in the following week’s Wild Card game against the Chicago Bears, he played just a single snap, helping to allow an explosive play in the passing game and making an assisted tackle down the field:
That was it for Diggs’ playoff contributions: one snap, one assisted tackle, and evidently no consideration at all to putting him on the field over a struggling Carrington Valentine.
Now facing the prospect of retaining him on a massive base salary for 2026 and beyond or moving on, the Packers predictably did the latter. The team announced Diggs’ release on Tuesday afternoon, clearing his contract off the books and freeing up over $15 million in salary cap space in the process. With Diggs’ dead money going on the Dallas Cowboys’ books in 2025 and 2026 when they waived him, the Packers owed Diggs no guaranteed money, meaning they are off scot-free moving forward.
Diggs is the first of what could be a few high-dollar contracts that the Packers clear for salary cap purposes in 2026. Look for Elgton Jenkins and Rashan Gary to be the team’s top cap casualty candidates between now and March as the team will look to get enough space to operate through the 2026 season.
In the meantime, Diggs’ release opens up a spot on the roster, and the Packers have filled it (and one vacant slot) with a pair of players on futures contracts. The first is Jaden Crumedy, a defensive tackle and former #200 overall draft pick in 2024. The 6-foot-4, 300-pounder played six years at Mississippi State before being drafted by the Carolina Panthers, for whom he played eight games and recorded a half-sack over the last two years. Crumedy spent some of his rookie year on injured reserve, then was back and forth from the practice squad to the active roster in 2025. Notably, Crumedy ran the 40-yard dash in less than five seconds at the 2024 Combine, clocking a time of 4.97 seconds at 301 pounds.
Joining Crumedy as a new addition to the Packers is quarterback Kyle McCord, who started for both Ohio State and Syracuse in college. He too was a 6th-round draft pick like Crumedy, going 181st overall to Philadelphia in 2025. He did not make the roster at final cuts in August, however, spending the entirety of 2025 on the Eagles’ practice squad. After three years with the Buckeyes, including a 2023 season that saw him lead the Big Ten in yards per attempt, he transferred to Syracuse for the 2024 season and ended the year as the FBS’ most prolific passer. His 391 completions, 592 pass attempts, and 4,779 yards all led the FBS last season and he earned a second-place and a few third-place votes for the 2024 Heisman Trophy.
