CAREER SUMMARY: Ranks 13th on program’s career tackles list with 219
SENIOR (2016): Started all 12 games … recorded 57 tackles, including 4.0 for loss, two interceptions and four pass breakups … opened season with career-high 11 tackles and one pass breakup in 24-23 win at Mercer … nine solo tackles vs. Bears were most in SoCon and 5th in FCS in week one … made four tackles and grabbed game-clinching interception with 1:33 remaining in 19-14 victory vs. Furman … registered three tackles and one pass breakup in 31-24 win at Gardner-Webb … recorded career-high 2.0 tackles for loss and one interception as part of five-tackle performance in 37-14 victory at Western Carolina … made three tackles in 38-14 win at North Greenville and in 22-14 victory vs. No. 5 Chattanooga … registered six tackles, including 1.0 for loss, in 24-21 victory at Wofford … had four tackles, including 0.5 for loss, in 45-10 win vs. ETSU … made five stops in 37-34 victory vs. No. 20 Samford … recorded five tackles, including 0.5 for loss, and one pass breakup in 30-20 win at VMI … had two solo tackles at North Carolina … registered six tackles and one pass breakup in second round of FCS Playoffs vs. No. 19 Wofford
JUNIOR (2015): Started all 13 games … recorded 86 tackles, including 1.0 for loss, two interceptions, four pass breakups, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery … made career-high 11 tackles and one pass breakup in 39-12 win vs. Wofford … matched career-high tackle total and added one forced fumble at No. 9 Chattanooga … had three tackles in season-opening 69-0 win vs. Davidson … made nine stops in 28-10 win vs. Western Carolina … recorded six tackles, one pass breakup and one fumble recovery at Georgia Southern … made nine tackles vs. Charleston Southern … had five stops in 44-25 win at Samford … registered seven tackles in 38-17 win vs. Furman … registered seven stops, 1.0 for loss, and one pass breakup in 21-19 win vs. Mercer … had three tackles and one interception in 35-14 win vs. VMI … had six tackles and one pass breakup in 23-22 win at South Carolina … registered eight tackles in 41-38 win at Coastal Carolina in first round of NCAA FCS Playoffs … made one tackle and one interception at Charleston Southern in second round of NCAA FCS Playoffs.
SOPHOMORE (2014): Appeared in all 12 games with nine starts … recorded 67 tackles, including 1.5 for loss, two fumble recoveries, one interception and two pass breakups … ranked third on the team in tackles and tied for team lead in fumble recoveries … recorded career-high 10 tackles vs. Chattanooga … named Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Week after recording nine tackles and two fumble recoveries in 45-25 win vs. VMI … made two tackles vs. Coastal Carolina … had four tackles and one pass breakup at defending national champion Florida State … made nine tackles, seven solo, in 37-14 win vs. Gardner-Webb … made four tackles, 0.5 for loss, at Wofford … had two solo tackles in 63-56 win vs. Charlotte … registered four tackles, one interception and one pass breakup at Western Carolina … made eight tackles, 0.5 for loss, in 28-26 win vs. Mercer … made nine tackles, 0.5 for loss, in 42-35 win vs. Furman … had six tackles, five solo, vs. Samford.
FRESHMAN (2013): Played in 11 games, including his first career start against Chattanooga where he recorded three tackles and one pass breakup ... finished the season with nine tackles ... made two tackles against Western Carolina and two against Clemson.
HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered in football and track and field at Scotland High School … served as a team captain … named team's defensive back of the year as well as all-conference and all-region his senior year when his team won the conference championship … chosen to play in the Shrine Bowl … played on a 15-0 Class 4A state title team his junior year … helped freshman team go 6-0 in 2009 and junior varsity team post a perfect 10-0 record the following year … standout on the track, finishing sixth at the state meet in the 55 meter hurdles and eighth in the 110 hurdles while qualifying in the 300 hurdles his junior season … received the Most Improved Award on the track team as a sophomore.
PERSONAL: Son of Brenton Scott Diggs and Shequeta Fripp … plans on majoring in electrical engineering.
