The Bills acquired wide receiver Stefon Diggs from the Minnesota Vikings. It is a big swing for the fences for Buffalo.
There’s plenty to unpack in regard to the player who was instantly dubbed as Josh Allen’s No. 1 receiver moving forward. There’s plenty of things about Diggs you might be aware of and some things you didn’t even realize you needed to hear.
With that, here are 13 things to know about Bills wideout Stefon Diggs:
What happened off the field?
Diggs is good at football and young at only 26. So why is he on the Bills now and not the Vikings? Well there’s just a slew of random off-field issues they had with his former team, and what exactly happened is the big question.
Most recently just prior to being traded by the Vikings, he took to social media on Monday assuring people that the rumors of a potential trade were real, stating: “something’s going to happen.” That comes just a few days after he cleaned out his social media accounts of all things Vikings, only to hours later post a video of himself working out in a Cardinals t-shirt.
Things like that just happened all the time with him on social media.
Further down the line during the season, Diggs and quarterback Kirk Cousins seemed to also be on different pages. Diggs’ on-field persona changed a lot in 2019, toward a more negative one. GMFB’s Peter Schrager described his body language as “terrible” during last season. There were also rumblings of Diggs perhaps not liking teammate Adam Thielen either, his wideout partner. But then there’s been times where Diggs has said things are fine. It’s been all over the place.
Really, no one knows exactly where things went downhill, but it was clear Diggs wanted out. But rest easy, he already seems motivated with the Bills since he gave Josh Allen a shoutout on Twitter after the trade was reported.