{"id":119535,"date":"2025-06-10T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119535\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:15:09","slug":"stefon-diggs-believes-he-can-be-no-1-option-for-patriots-coming-off-acl-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119535\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefon Diggs believes he can be No. 1 option for Patriots coming off ACL tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs is ready to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/06\/09\/how-stefon-diggs-has-impressed-key-patriots-players-in-spring-practice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be a full participant<\/a> in practice whenever the team will allow it.<\/p>\n<p>Diggs, who tore his ACL in late October, has been limited in spring practices, participating in individual drills and the walk-through portion but sitting out of full-speed 11-on-11s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d Diggs said when asked if he\u2019ll be ready for the Patriots\u2019 Week 1 matchup against the Raiders on Sept. 7. \u201cObviously, I don\u2019t make the rules. I\u2019m grinding each and every day, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t do too much of the team stuff, but I\u2019m eager to get out there, so whenever they do press the button, I\u2019m going to be ready. I\u2019m grinding, though, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diggs might not be 100%, but he\u2019s flashing speed and change-of-direction ability during the drills in which he\u2019s allowed to participate.<\/p>\n<p>He said his knee is feeling \u201cpretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a process. I was seven months on Saturday,\u201d Diggs said. \u201cSo it\u2019s a nice seven-month reunion, and I feel great. Been out here grinding with the boys. Been definitely a process but it\u2019s on the back end now. I wanted to mix it up a little bit but I don\u2019t make the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diggs, a four-time Pro Bowl selection with 10,491 career receiving yards, was asked if he could still be a \u201cNo. 1 guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor who? For myself?\u201d Diggs asked.<\/p>\n<p>For your team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c100 percent,\u201d Diggs answered.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s certainly what the Patriots were hoping when they signed him to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/03\/25\/source-patriots-signing-4-time-pro-bowl-wr-stefon-diggs-to-free-agent-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-year, $63.5 million contract<\/a> this March. The guaranteed portions of Diggs\u2019 contract, including his $12 million signing bonus, are dependent on him passing a physical.<\/p>\n<p>Diggs was asked if that has occurred yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t had it yet. We had something like it. Maybe I have passed it, but it\u2019s kind of up to them,\u201d Diggs said. \u201cI\u2019ve just been playing it by ear. \u2026 Oh, you\u2019re saying, \u2018Have I got the money yet?\u2019 I got to check the account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs is ready to be a full participant in practice whenever the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,832,208,836,834,831,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-119535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-rumors","21":"tag-patriots","22":"tag-patriots-2025","23":"tag-patriots-news","24":"tag-patriots-rumors","25":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114660909061981850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535","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=119535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}