Week 5: Trevon Diggs, Dallas Cowboys

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs has been named the DC Touchdown Club Pro Football Player of the Week.

Diggs, who played at the Avalon School in Wheaton, snagged his NFL-leading sixth interception, made five tackles and broke up two passes as the Cowboys improved to 4-1 with a 44-20 victory over the New York Giants.

Diggs has at least one interception in each game this season and is only the fourth player since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970 to have six interceptions in the first five games of a season.

“The ball goes up in the air and he’s coming down with it,” Cowboys Coach Mike McCarthy said after Sunday’s game. “I don’t think it’s a 50-50 ball any more. His confidence is off the charts. The way he goes after the ball, it’s unique.”

Diggs, whose older brother Stefon is a standout wide receiver with the Buffalo Bills, was a two-way star in high school. He played collegiately at the University of Alabama, where he switched full-time to defense as a sophomore. He was selected by Dallas in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

“He’s so good,” Fox analyst Troy Aikman said after Sunday’s game. “He went through growing pains last year, like a lot of rookies do. … But he’s got such good ball skills.

“Deion Sanders is only the greatest who has ever done it, so I don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves, but I see a lot of the same similarities because of his speed, because of his ball skills, the way that he is able to bait receivers. You can do that in college but rarely does it translate to the NFL.”