NFL Trade Rumors
The path has been cleared for Stefon Diggs to sign with a new team. After putting together a strong season for the Patriots in 2025 (85 receptions, 1,014 yards, four touchdowns), he was accused by his former personal chef of assault and strangulation. Diggs was found not guilty back in May and last week the NFL concluded it had insufficient evidence to determine if a violation of its personal conduct policy occurred, clearing Diggs to play in 2026 with no suspension.
This is good news for both Diggs and any teams in need of quality wide receiver help, as he proved last season he can still be effective as the top option in a passing attack. A former fifth-round pick out of Maryland, Diggs spent the first five years of his career in Minnesota before being traded to Buffalo in 2020. Paired with Bills QB Josh Allen, Diggs helped anchor some of the league’s best offenses over four years there. In 2024, he played for the Texans, tearing his ACL after only eight games. His bounce-back performance in New England gives him a new lease on his career.
At this point, Diggs won’t be in line for a big multi-year deal, but he won’t come cheap, either. The Patriots signed him to a three-year, $63.5 million contract last offseason. Critically, there were no guarantees after the first year, allowing them to cut him this offseason (and they subsequently replaced him by trading for A.J. Brown). It’s safe to say that Diggs lived up to his $21.2 million APY contract last year, putting him just behind the likes of Courtland Sutton and Davante Adams in yearly salary.
On the other hand, Diggs will turn 33 this November and teams are usually hesitant to commit big money to old receivers. I could see a team signing him to a two-year deal for additional financial flexibility, but he won’t get any guarantees past the first. Any deal he signs will amount to a one-year deal worth around $20 million, regardless of what the technical details say.
Diggs, 32, is a former fifth-round pick of the Vikings back in 2015. He was in the final year of his rookie contract when he agreed to a five-year extension worth $72 million with the Vikings in 2018
The Vikings traded Diggs to the Bills in 2020 for a package of draft picks, including a first-round selection.
Diggs was set to make base salaries of $11.775 million and $11.85 million over the final two years of his deal in 2022 and 2023 when Buffalo signed him to a four-year, $104 million extension.
He was due base salaries of $18.5 million and $18 million over the next two seasons when the Bills traded him to the Texans for a 2025 second-round pick. Houston reworked his contract to give him a raise and make him an unrestricted free agent in 2025.
Diggs played out that contract and signed a three-year, $60 million deal with the Patriots in 2025. He...
