{"id":280996,"date":"2025-08-12T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280996\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:54:12","slug":"mike-vrabel-gives-cryptic-response-on-stefon-diggs-absence-in-patriots-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/280996\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel gives cryptic response on Stefon Diggs’ absence in Patriots’ preseason opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Patriots<\/a> wide receiver Stefon Diggs was with the team for Friday’s preseason game against the Washington Commanders, but he remained on the sidelines in blue sweats and a T-shirt instead of his uniform.<\/p>\n

Diggs has been a full go at training camp, despite having torn his ACL during Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season. So, why was he not playing in the game?<\/p>\n

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Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel was asked that exact question during a Monday morning interview on WEEI\u2019s The Greg Hill Show<\/a>. Specifically, he was asked if it was more of a precautionary move.<\/p>\n

But Vrabel didn’t give anything away.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach\u2019s decision,\u201d he simply responded.<\/p>\n

It makes sense why the Patriots would want to err on the side of caution with Diggs, considering his previous injury. But, he was back on the field and was a full participant in Monday’s practice before New England travels to Minnesota for its second preseason game against the Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Patriots Wire: Mike Vrabel gives cryptic response on Stefon Diggs’ absence in opener<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs was with the team for Friday’s preseason game against the Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,838,233,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,9791,531,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-280996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-mike-vrabel","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-new-england","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots","17":"tag-preseason-game","18":"tag-stefon-diggs","19":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115013305263129522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280996","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=280996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}