The Draw Play

About a week before the Super Bowl Stefon Diggs was accused of physically assaulting his then-chef. I think we all sorta wrote it off as probable because Diggs has had a weird reputation as kind of a fuckboi and these incidents are unfortunately more common than we want them to be among athletes.

Well, turns out this was one of those cases that appears to genuinely be an extortion attempt. The accuser crumbled under pressure in the courtroom and Diggs’ defense attorneys brought receipts. So under the court of law, for what we know, Diggs may still be a silly fuckboi but he’s not a violent abuser.

It’s kind of wild to see what happened since he was cut. I don’t think anyone was bothered by him getting cut. But the guy who cut him has found himself embroiled in the funniest football tabloid drama in years. Every week we get a new bit of lore. They get caught. She quits. They find older pictures. He looks frazzled at the draft. We find out her first kid is named Mike and speculate on the coincidence. Our latest juice is that while she was visibly pregnant with baby Mike, she was on a private boat with big Mike, and they were both notably resistant to having pictures taken by the boat rental employees.

Diggs isn’t the stud he used to be but he can still contribute to any team who picks him up so I’m curious to see where he lands. Will he go back to New England, if they want him? Or if he wants them, after they didn’t stick by him? Would he go back to any of the teams he’s left, like Houston or Buffalo? Is he going to be strapped for suitors and end up on the Browns in week 3?