Stefon Diggs finds new NFL home in blockbuster trade
Diggs, 30, will play for his third pro team and team up with a rising star at quarterback.
In March 2020, the Vikings traded Diggs and a seventh-round pick to the Bills for a first-, fifth- and sixth-round pick. Diggs immediately had a career season upon arriving in Buffalo, posting 127 catches for 1,535 yards – both league-leading marks – and eight touchdowns en route to First-team All-Pro honors. Diggs was also a Second-team All-Pro selection in 2022, hauling in 108 catches for 1,429 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Diggs was named a Pro Bowler in each of his four seasons in Buffalo, each of which ended with AFC East titles. Despite the regular-season success, the Bills only appeared in the AFC title game once (2020 season) and lost in the divisional round each of the past three seasons.
Diggs, 30, will play for his third pro team and team up with a rising star at quarterback.
One of the great Terps in the NFL has found a new landing spot heading into the 2024 season.
The Buffalo Bills are trading Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported. The Bills sent Diggs, a sixth-round pick in this year’s draft and a 2025 fifth-round pick to Houston in exchange for a 2025 second-round pick.
In 17 games this past season, Diggs caught 107 passes for 1,183 yards and eight touchdowns. He was named to his fourth Pro Bowl. Diggs had formed a popular and oftentimes lethal quarterback-wide receiver combination with Bills star quarterback Josh Allen. Now, he will team up with the Texans quarterback CJ Stroud – the reigning NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and budding star.
Diggs, who will turn 31 on Nov. 30, enters his 10th season in the NFL. Diggs became Maryland’s highest-ranked recruit in history, according to the 247Sports database, when he committed to the university on Feb. 10, 2012. Despite playing with several different quarterbacks, he finished his three-year Terps career with 150 catches for 2,227 yards and 14 touchdowns in 28 games.
The Minnesota Vikings selected Diggs with the 146th overall pick in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He played five seasons in Minnesota, breaking national stardom with his 61-yard touchdown – a play now famously known as the Minneapolis Miracle – to hand Minnesota a 29-24 victory over the New Orleans Saints in the divisional round of the playoffs in his third season.
In March 2020, the Vikings traded Diggs and a seventh-round pick to the Bills for a first-, fifth- and sixth-round pick. Diggs immediately had a career season upon arriving in Buffalo, posting 127 catches for 1,535 yards – both league-leading marks – and eight touchdowns en route to First-team All-Pro honors. Diggs was also a Second-team All-Pro selection in 2022, hauling in 108 catches for 1,429 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Diggs was named a Pro Bowler in each of his four seasons in Buffalo, each of which ended with AFC East titles. Despite the regular-season success, the Bills only appeared in the AFC title game once (2020 season) and lost in the divisional round each of the past three seasons.
