{"id":79278,"date":"2025-05-26T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79278\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:11:08","slug":"first-look-at-wr-stefon-diggs-in-patriots-uniform-at-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/79278\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at WR Stefon Diggs in Patriots uniform at OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing Tuesday&#8217;s practice, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" data-autotag=\"04de4087-8f54-4765-a468-9b4c74f7fb14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New England Patriots<\/a> wide receiver Stefon Diggs was on the field with an ear-to-ear grin on his face on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowler has been working his way back from the torn ACL he suffered while playing for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Texans<\/a> last year. There is no certainty that he&#8217;ll be ready by the start of the season, but the fact that he was on the field running routes and catching passes is obviously a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Diggs is projected to be Patriots quarterback Drake Maye&#8217;s new No. 1 receiving target. Fans got a teaser of the star wideout in his Patriots practice uniform while preparing for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Before going down with the knee injury, Diggs had racked up 1,000 receiving yards for the previous six consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>That level of elite production at receiver is something the Patriots haven&#8217;t had since Tom Brady was throwing to Julian Edelman. Diggs&#8217; arrival could be the linchpin for Maye&#8217;s career and the spark needed for the offense as a whole to get back on track.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Patriots Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Patriots_Wire?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PatriotsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing Tuesday&#8217;s practice, New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs was on the field with an ear-to-ear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[247,265,1364,512,995,833,207,7,221,253,2939,206,1167,249,2326,2094,88,6,245,537,208,530,9,266,511,531,222,1363,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-79278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-brady","11":"tag-diggs","12":"tag-drake","13":"tag-drake-maye","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-houston-texans","18":"tag-maye","19":"tag-new","20":"tag-new-england","21":"tag-new-england-patriots","22":"tag-newengland","23":"tag-newenglandpatriots","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-overall","27":"tag-overall-positive","28":"tag-patriots","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-news","32":"tag-stefon","33":"tag-stefon-diggs","34":"tag-texans","35":"tag-tom","36":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114571712095895239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79278","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=79278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}