{"id":792955,"date":"2026-03-05T04:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:50:22","slug":"stefon-diggs-getting-released-from-patriots-thanks-team-for-hell-of-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792955\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefon Diggs Getting Released From Patriots, Thanks Team For ‘Hell of a Year’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stefon Diggs<\/a> is dealing with another breakup — the New England Patriots are going to release him.<\/p>\n

The news came minutes ago — with Tom Pelissero saying the team alerted the receiver the move will be made official after the start of the new season next week.<\/p>\n

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Diggs caught 85 balls for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns during New England’s return to greatness in 2025 … helping the team get back to the Super Bowl for the first time since the Tom Brady era.<\/p>\n

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The relationship seemed pretty strong just months ago — the Pats stood by Diggs after he was accused of attacking<\/a> his personal chef … and he continued to play as the season went on.<\/p>\n

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It was a brief stint … but Diggs will now be able to join another team and pick back up where he left off last year.<\/p>\n

Diggs has been going through it lately — as his ex, Cardi B<\/a>, seemingly shaded him during a recent tour stop in San Francisco … although she claimed it was just a case of reciting lyrics.<\/p>\n

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Diggs — who had a three-year deal with New England — addressed the Pats’ latest move in a statement on Instagram … saying, “THANK YOU for a hell of a year. We family forever.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefon Diggs is dealing with another breakup — the New England Patriots are going to release him. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,88,6,9,266,4429],"class_list":{"0":"post-792955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-news","13":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116174772153637958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792955","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=792955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}