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Patriots Make Final Decision on Stefon Diggs After Viral Video Controversy<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New England Patriots are already facing a controversy with Stefon Diggs long before the star wide receiver has taken even a single snap for the franchise.<\/p>\n

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A video of Diggs on a yacht over Memorial Day weekend in possession of an unidentified and powdery “pink substance,” which some have speculated may have been\/contained illegal drugs, went viral following its release.<\/p>\n

That incident sparked questions about how one of the NFL’s most storied franchises, known for its no-nonsense approach to the game, might handle discipline regarding the four-time Pro Bowler who just inked a $63.5 million<\/a> deal to join the team as second-year QB Drake Maye’s top target in the pass game.<\/p>\n

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Former Houston Texans wide receiver Stefon Diggs.Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel briefly addressed the issue in recent days, saying the franchise wouldn’t litigate in public and that all decisions would be in-house and shared on a need-to-know basis.<\/p>\n

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Ian Rapoport of NFL Network on Monday, June 2, reported that New England had come to a final decision on Diggs’ future with the team moving forward.<\/p>\n

“From The Insiders on [NFL Network]: The #Patriots\u00a0have no plans to release Stefon Diggs,” Rapoport wrote<\/a>. “They have high hopes for him\u2026 and him showing up to OTAs was a good thing.”<\/p>\n

Diggs is coming off of a torn ACL he suffered with the Houston Texans last season, which cost him nine regular season games as well as both of Houston’s two playoff contests.<\/p>\n

Diggs has amassed nearly 10,500 receiving yards and 70 touchdowns<\/a> over a 10-year NFL career. He will play the upcoming campaign at 32 years old.<\/p>\n

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Related: Patriots’ Stefon Diggs sends five-word message upon arrival to OTAs amid latest drama.<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots Make Final Decision on Stefon Diggs After Viral Video Controversy originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[833,7,221,253,2368,5328,17058,838,1167,249,6,126,531,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-100003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-drake-maye","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-ian-rapoport","14":"tag-memorial-day-weekend","15":"tag-mike-vrabel","16":"tag-new-england","17":"tag-new-england-patriots","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-network","20":"tag-stefon-diggs","21":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114618005495274697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}