Adam Schefter: Buffalo Bills trading WR Stefon Diggs to Houston Texans
The Buffalo Bills are finalizing a trade to send All-Pro wideout Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans in exchange for draft-pick compensation, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported Wednesday.
Per Dianna Russini of The Athletic, Buffalo is receiving a 2025 second-round pick (via the Minnesota Vikings). The Texans are also acquiring a 2025 fifth-round and sixth-round pick. Diggs, who signed a four-year, $104 million extension with the Bills in 2022, is under contract through the 2027 season.
Diggs, 30, is on the move after four highly productive seasons with the Bills. In 66 games, he hauled in 445 receptions for 5,372 yards and 37 touchdowns. Diggs earned a Pro Bowl selection in each season in Buffalo, including his first and only AP first-team All-Pro honor in 2020 when he tallied a career-high 127 receptions for 1,535 yards.
Buffalo initially acquired Diggs from the Vikings ahead of the 2020 season. In five seasons in Minnesota, he came down with 365 catches for 4,623 yards and 30 scores. A big-time weapon in Buffalo for Josh Allen, Diggs will soon find himself a favorite of C.J. Stroud, coming off an AP Offensive Rookie of the Year Award-winning season.
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Houston looks to have one of the deepest receiver rooms in the league on paper as an addition to Diggs, the Texans have Nico Collins, Tank Dell, Robert Woods, John Metchie, Noah Brown and tight end Dalton Schultz for Stroud to work with.
In addition, Houston has Pro Bowl running back Joe Mixon set to tote the rock in 2024 after acquiring him from the Cincinnati Bengals earlier this offseason. Along with Diggs and Mixon, the Texans also signed four-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Danielle Hunter last month. Hunter amassed a career-high 16.5 sacks this past season with the Vikings.
Rumors of a split between Diggs and the Bills had been swirling for the past calendar year. Diggs was notably absent from the start of Buffalo’s mandatory minicamp last June. At the time, head coach Sean McDermott said he was “very concerned” about Diggs’ absence. This past November, Diggs’ brother, Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs, publicly called for him to leave Buffalo after a 24-22 defeat to the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football.”
After recording five 100-yard games in the first six games of the 2023 season, Diggs failed to record another in his final 13 appearances, including two playoff games. In what we now know was his final game as a Bill, Diggs hauled in three receptions for 21 yards in the 27-24 AFC Divisional Round defeat to the Kansas City Chiefs.