{"id":293220,"date":"2025-08-16T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/293220\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:59:10","slug":"stefon-diggs-among-patriots-inactives-in-preseason-game-vs-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/293220\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefon Diggs among Patriots&#8217; inactives in preseason game vs. Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wide receiver Stefon Diggs is not in uniform as the Patriots warm up to play the Vikings on Saturday afternoon in a preseason matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Diggs is in sweats 30 minutes ahead of kickoff, per WBZ\u2019s Dan Roche. Diggs began his NFL career with the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stefon Diggs not playing today \u2013 he\u2019s out for warmups in sweatshirt. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patriots?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Patriots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wbz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEPats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NEPats<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tnrybKB8Iw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tnrybKB8Iw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Roche (@RochieWBZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RochieWBZ\/status\/1956753684416586163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The veteran wide receiver avoided the PUP list to begin training camp despite undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL that was suffered in late October. Diggs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/08\/14\/patriots-stefon-diggs-muddies-up-week-1-status-in-acl-recovery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made headlines<\/a> this week when asked by The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini on her \u201cScoop City\u201d podcast if he would be ready for Week 1. Diggs was cagey in response and said he wasn\u2019t certain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been out here almost every day,\u201d head coach Mike Vrabel said Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m excited of where he\u2019s at and we\u2019ll see when Week 1 comes, but he\u2019s going to practice today. Hopefully he helps us in the red zone, but we can\u2019t predict the future about Week 1. I just know he\u2019s going to be out there today, and he works hard and he cares, which are two important things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patriots right tackle Morgan Moses also won\u2019t play Saturday, according to NBC Sports Boston\u2019s Phil Perry. The Patriots have been monitoring Moses\u2019 workload ahead of Week 1.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Top offensive line in warmups:<\/p>\n<p>LT Will Campbell<br \/>LG Ben Brown<br \/>C Garrett Bradbury<br \/>RG Mike Onwenu<br \/>RT Marcus Bryant<\/p>\n<p>No Morgan Moses this afternoon. Patriots continuing to manage his playing time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rDYqJqEnhK\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/rDYqJqEnhK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Perry (@PhilAPerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilAPerry\/status\/1956755385433366976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Stefon Diggs is not in uniform as the Patriots warm up to play the Vikings on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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-293220","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\/115039513221899066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293220","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=293220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}