The Buffalo Bills are ready to unleash wide receiver Stefon Diggs on the AFC. But Diggs’ former teammate in running back Dalvin Cook recently revealed he wasn’t happy to see him go.
The two were much closer than teammates.
“[I] just told him, ‘That’s my brother for life and I’m still here with you,’’’ Cook said. “And he was the same. Vice versa.’’
“It hurts because you spend so much time with a guy,” Cook added. “It hurt a lot of guys in the locker room but it’s part of the business. We’ve got to accept that Diggs wanted to be happy and be happy for him as a player.’’
Diggs comes to Buffalo on the heels of back-to-back 1,000-yard plus seasons of receiving. He’ll be added to the top of the Bills’ depth chart, right ahead of John Brown and Cole Beasley who both had profitable 2019 seasons with quarterback Josh Allen.
Diggs penned a note to Buffalo in The Players’ Tribune last week, expressing how excited he was to get going with his new team.
But he also discussed his former team, and tipped his cap to his Vikings teammates.
“The texts started coming in, and I remembered what I was leaving,” Diggs said. “You get to someplace like Minnesota, and you realize that it’s so much more than that. More than you ever even imagined.”
What’s important to note here is that Diggs, who wanted to leave the Vikings which prompted the trade, mentioned several teammates in his note via the player-run outlet. Among those was quarterback Kirk Cousins.
No one knows for sure why Diggs wanted out, and some speculation said it had to do with Cousins. But Diggs was very complimentary of Cousins and several other teammates. That, combined with Cook speaking out, indicates Diggs had an issue with the front office and not any individual players. Perhaps a good silver lining here for Buffalo in terms of their locker room culture with Diggs’ addition.
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