Darez Diggs is a 29-year-old American businessman and fashion enthusiast who also played college football. He played the defensive back position and has had a career with Morgan State Bears, and the University of Alabama Blazer football team.
While the world still remembers him for playing different positions in football, he is widely revered as the brother of NFL players Steffon Diggs and Trevon Trevon Diggs.
Darez Diggs’ Early Life, Parents, and His Relationship with the Diggs Brothers
Darez Diggs was born on December 18, 1995, in Washington DC, United States. He is 29 years old.
He was born as a middle child to his father Aaron Diggs. His mother’s identity is contradictory. Although most sources report that Darez Diggs’ mother’s name is Stephanie Diggs, his bio page on UAB where he played college football reports her name as Renee Ricks.
Diggs’ father was an American football enthusiast who encouraged his children to play the game. Unfortunately, he died of congestive heart failure in January 2008 at 39. At the time, Darez was 12.
The American footballer was mostly taken care of by his older brother Stefon Diggs. It was Stefon who further encouraged him to play American football.
Apart from Stefon, a footballer who plays for Buffalo Bills, Darez has other siblings, including his younger brother Trevon Diggs – a professional footballer.
He has 2 paternal half-siblings, Aron McDonald Diggs and Porche Diggs. His maternal half-siblings are a brother Dimitri Ricks and Dalaini Workman.
All About Darez Diggs’ Education
The American professional footballer attended the Friendship Academy High School in Washington DC. Several notable footballers have attended the same school, including Eddie Goldman, Yannick Ngakoue, and Teez Tabor.
Afterward, Diggs attended Iowa Community College and later joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). There, he majored in Communication Studies.
While in school, Diggs was active in sports and played football with the school’s football team. This kept him rooted and active, thereby leading him to the University of Alabama in 2015. There, he played the game and became a famous college footballer.
How He Started His Career and Became Famous
Darez’s college career started in 2013 when he was 18. He first played for Morgan State University’s team known as Morgan State Bears. Following that, he played at the University of Alabama.
In the earliest phase of his career, he was ranked 123rd-best recruit overall and many other
Here is a breakdown of Diggs’ career.
Darez Diggs Played Defensive Back at Morgan State Bears in 2013
Diggs started his college career with Morgan State Bear as a freshman in 2013. He played the Defensive Back position and played alongside the likes of Orlando Johnson, Herb Walker Jr., Deadrick Jones, and Ricky Fisk who were also freshmen.
Other players he played on the same team with are Broderick Gager, Darien Irby, Chris Flowers, and Wesley Nichols who were seniors at the time.
At the time Diggs played for the team, they represented Morgan State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
They ended the season in 5–7, 5–3 in MEAC record. They played several teams such as the Delaware State Hornets Football Team, Hampton, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, and South Carolina State Bulldogs.
He Began a New Phase of Career with the University of Alabama Blazers in 2015
Two years following his ushering into the football team of Morgan State University, Darez Diggs started another college career in 2015, playing for the University of Alabama Blazers (UAB).
He was first committed to the university’s football team in 2015 and a year later, he became one of junior college commitments to join the 2016 recruiting class of UAB.
By 2017, a year after he joined UAB, Diggs appeared in 12 games with 5 starts.
Prior to that, he had the offer to join the West Virginia among other university teams but rejected it.
His Statistics and Highlights
- In 2015 while playing at Iowa Western, he earned first-team NJCAA All-American recognition
- He helped the Edison-Friendship Academy team to the city championship in his senior season
- As a junior at UAB, he recorded a career-high eight tackles at Florida
- He also forced one fumble at Charlotte in 2021
- In his teen years, Diggs was ranked 123rd nationally as a recruit
- He was one time the 12th-ranked cornerback
- Darez Diggs, the younger brother of Stefon Diggs was ranked 5th top football prospect for the 2016 class by 247Sports.com
Did Darez Diggs Get to The NFL?
Diaz was not drafted in the NFL like his older and younger brothers, Stefon Diggs and Trevon Diggs.
Not being an NFL draft did not immediately stop him from playing football. Instead, he became an undrafted free agent.
In recent times, however, he has not played the game professionally. Yet, his name continues to make waves, mostly as one of the Diggs brothers.
His older brother, Stefon Diggs was drafted into the NFL in 2015 as the 146 pick in the 5th round. He played for the Minnesota Vikings at the time and left in 2019. In 2020, he started another phase of his career playing for the Buffalo Bills.
He has received numerous awards in his career, including:
- First-team All-Pro (2020)
- Second-team All-Pro (2022)
- 3× Pro Bowl (2020–2022)
- NFL receptions leader (2020)
- NFL receiving yards leader (2020)
- PFWA All-Rookie Team (2015)
- Second-team All-Big Ten (2014)
In a similar vein, Daren Diggs’s other brother, Trevon Diggs has been an American football cornerback for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys since he was drafted in 2020.
Before then, he had a college career at the University of Alabama from 2016 to 2019.
Trevon has recorded the following highlights and awards
- First-team All-Pro (2021)
- 2× Pro Bowl (2021, 2022)
- NFL interceptions leader (2021)
- CFP national champion (2018)
- Third-team All-American (2019)
- First-team All-SEC (2019)
Where is Mar’Sean Diggs Now?
Darez does not play professional football but has a career as a businessman and founder of the Blue Boii clothing brand.
The brand is known to have created hoodies, t-shirts, and trousers. The clothes have been used by numerous famous people, especially in the sports industry. Some of them include fighter Jake Paul, WWE superstar Gable Steveson, Canadian basketballer Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and American footballers Trevon Diggs and James Connor.
Other famous people who have worn Darez’s are musician Wale, and fashion model Marcus Allen.
He was involved in a Robbery Controversy
On May 29, 2022, Diggs was involved in a controversial situation in a Los Angeles apartment building. The news circulated in June when surveillance footage revealed him being in an altercation with an unknown man.
The footage showed him following the man into an elevator and later the man’s (victim) neck chain was forced out of me.
Diggs later left the lobby from another elevator. The incident was reported to the authorities and upon getting to the science, the suspects (Diggs and three others) had already left.
The narrative given was that an orange purse containing diamonds and other jewelry was stolen.
Stefon Diggs’ Brother’s Net Worth
Diggs’ net worth is estimated at $1 million. He has accumulated his wealth from his business and company Blue Boii as well as from his football collegian career.
His exact earning over the years is not ascertained but college football players in America can earn up to $10,000 per annum. Also, there was a Supreme Court judgment in the US that allows student-athletes to earn from signing endorsement deals.
This means that Diggs may have earned from other sources apart from his income as a footballer while in college.
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His Height and Weight
Darez Diggs’ height is 6 feet 3 inches. This makes him the tallest of the Diggs brothers with Stefon’s height being listed as 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) tall and Trevon is 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall.
Also, with his height, he is about 4 inches taller than average defensive back footballers (5.9 feet (71.6 inches tall)). The tallest average players in the NFL are those who play the Tight End (TE) position, according to research about the height and weight of footballers. They stand at 6.3 feet (76.5 inches) tall.
This means that Diggs is the exact height of the average height of the TE in the NFL.
In a similar vein, he is taller than average men in America (5 feet, 9 inches.)
With Diggs’ height, one may wonder how the footballer became this tall. Well, science has proven that the major contributors to one’s height are genetics (80%) and environmental factors.
This means that Darez Diggs may have gotten his height from his genetics which include his parents (his father was 6’3 feet) and ethnicity. This could be evident in the fact that his height is closely related to those of his older brother Steffon and his younger brother Trevon who are all not less than 6 feet.
With respect to environmental factors, nutrition, and exercise are also determinants with respect to how tall a person becomes. In terms of Diggs’ case, he is known to have been exposed to sports from an early age.
This automatically means that exercise could be a major reason why he is as tall as he is.
Apart from his height, his body measurement such as weight is difficult to ascertain at the time of this report. However, the Morgan State Bears website reports his weight as 190lb (and 6 feet 2 inches tall) in 2013 when he began his career with the team.
Then, moving to UAB, his weight was 210lb with a 6 feet 3 inches in height.
What to Know About Darez Diggs’ Love Life
Diggs keeps a low-profile love life. Nonetheless, in 2022, he posted a woman’s picture (a model) and there was a comment, asking why he does not post his newborn.
While there is no confirmation that he has a child, the comment has suggested a possibility.
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