Best way to use Player as audio interface use DI into plugin

Using the Player as the audio interface as well as the source. (Sometimes DI to track with plugin, sometimes send a Rig)

Is creating a rig that has everything bypassed the best way to send a DI into plugin in DAW via USB so that there is no monitoring of a ‘DI guitar signal merged with the plugin at the output?

I was doing that but was getting the Rig components sent in to the track. Amp, delay etc.

As if the Output setting wasn’t cutting off the path through the whole Rig. I thought it might have been the input monitor setting in Logic but if I want to record the output I seem to have no choice. I also experimented with using MacBook headphone output instead of Player as the usb device Output choice but I think that was causing latency to be added that way. Barely perceived but there.