The 23-year-old now has nine interceptions in his first 16 career NFL starts, and entered Sunday's contest against the Giants with more interceptions than 27 other teams before grabbing another. There is now no shortage of crow to ingest for teams who passed on Diggs, some having done so twice, in that draft. It was a decision that literally brought Diggs to tears in the moment, but after speaking with his brother Stefon, he realized it was an opportunity to be a rare defensive talent. That's something he's accustomed to doing, seeing as he was once a receiver, before being converted to cornerback at Alabama by head coach Nick Saban. The pace he's operating on has literally never been seen before in the NFL, and it's due in large part to his ability to morph into a wide receiver when the ball is in the air.
Having already broken the Cowboys franchise record in Week 4 for most interceptions to begin a season, Diggs is now on pace to shatter the other longstanding record once held by legendary defensive back Everson Walls - the most interceptions in a single season by a Cowboy (11) - and he also has a shot at taking the NFL record in that category away from Hall of Fame cornerback Richard "Night Train" Lane (14). It's yet another week in which the Dallas Cowboys star cornerback was able to conjure an interception, this time in a blowout win over the New York Giants, stretching his streak to six INTs in the first five games of the 2021 season and just barely missing having his second multi-interception game this season - with two of Daniel Jones' passes having narrowly escaped being added to his vault.
Trevon Diggs is a man possessed in 2021, the likes of which would make Ed and Lorraine Warren nervous.
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