COLLEGE CAREER – With their final selection of the 2025 NFL Draft, New Orleans added this productive, versatile defender. Diggs spent four seasons (2020-23) at Texas A&M and the 2024 campaign at Syracuse. In his college career, he played in 45 games with 32 starts and recorded 120 career tackles, 32.5 stops for loss, 15.5 sacks, four forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, three pass breakups and a blocked kick.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS – Signed to a four-year contract, 5/9/24; Selected in the seventh round (254th overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft.
2024 – Honorable Mention All-ACC...Started all-12 regular season games...Team captain led team in tackles for loss (14.0) and sacks (7.5)...Also finished season with 45 tackles (25 solo), three quarterback hurries, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and one pass breakup...Made career-high eight tackles, 4.0 stops for loss and two sacks in opener vs. Ohio (8/31)...Had two sacks to tie career-high and six tackles at UNLV (10/4), including a overtime takedown that set up game-winning possession...Recovered a fumble in overtime that sealed a win over Virginia Tech (11/2), also logging seven tackles and 0.5 sacks...Had two tackles, including a stop for loss at Boston College (11/9)...Had one sack, forced one fumble and added two tackles for loss at California (11/16)...Had one sack and two tackles vs. UConn (11/23)...Notched third-straight game with a sack in win over No. 6 Miami (11/30), adding three tackles, a stop for loss, a pass breakup and a QB hurry...Held out of bowl game as precaution due to injury...East-West Shrine Bowl invitee. 2023 – Started all 12 regular season games in final season at Texas A&M...Served as a season-long team captain and was second on the team with 11.0 tackles for loss, helping the Aggies finish fifth nationally as a team in the category...Also made 36 tackles, 4.0 sacks, six quarterback hurries and two pass breakups on season...Made four tackles, including two for loss, and a pass deflection at Miami (9/9)...Had three solo tackles and one stop for loss in the SEC opener vs. Auburn (9/23)...Tied his career-high with 2.0 sacks vs. Alabama (10/7), as part of a five tackle, two stop for loss effort...Notched season-high six tackles and a sack at Tennessee (10/14)...Posted season-high 2.5 stops for loss, and his third-straight game with a sack, to go with four total tackles and a pass breakup vs. South Carolina (10/28)...Made two tackles and 0.5 stop for loss at Mississippi (11/4)...Had three tackles and a tackle for loss against Mississippi State (11/11)...Made a pair of solo tackles and had a tackle for loss vs. Abilene Christian (11/18)...Entered the transfer portal at the conclusion of the regular season to join Syracuse. 2022 – Team captain started all eight games he appeared in, while battling through injuries...Made 28 tackles (15 solo), five stops for loss, three sacks, three forced fumbles and a quarterback hurry...Registered six tackles, including a season-high 3.0 stops for loss, a college career-high two forced fumbles and 2.0 sacks, at Alabama (10/8)...Recorded a strip-sack, his second straight game with a forced fumble, at South Carolina (10/22)...Tallied four tackles against Mississippi (10/29), his final game of the season...Earned the Aggie Defensive Leadership Award and the Strength & Conditioning Defensive Award. 2021 – Played in all 12 games...Had nine tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, one sack, one blocked kick and a quarterback hurry...Registered four tackles and one sack in season-opening win over Kent State (9/4)...Added two tackles and one QB hurry vs. South Carolina (10/23)...Recorded two tackles, including 1.5 for loss, and blocked a kick against Prairie View A&M (11/20). 2020 – Made his collegiate debut and logged his first set of tackles in the win at South Carolina (11/7).
PERSONAL – Coached by Preston Brown at Woodrow Wilson (East Camden, N.J.) HS, where he was named 2019 New Jersey Gatorade Player of the Year...Tallied 99 tackles including 19.0 sacks and added five forced fumbles in his career...On the offensive side of the ball, recorded 67 catches for 1,033 yards and 11 touchdowns...A four-star recruit according to all three national outlets and a top-four prospect in New Jersey...Was the No. 35 overall transfer in this cycle at the time of his commitment, to Syracuse according to 247Sports and was the No. 8 edge in the portal according to On3…Older brother of Syracuse linebacker Fatim Diggs.
