On Wednesday, folks across the NFL world reacted to news of the Houston Texans trading a 2025 second-round pick to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for wide receiver Stefon Diggs plus a 2024 sixth-round pick and 2025 fifth-round draft choice.
Compensation updates, per sources:
🏈Bills receive 2025 second-round pick via Minnesota.
🏈Texans receive Stefon Diggs and a 2024 sixth-round pick and a 2025 fifth-round pick. https://t.co/WlL4mAaavz
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 3, 2024
The Texans said pic.twitter.com/Y41Ja57PeB
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) April 3, 2024
You're trading Diggs to a conference team who is frankly now BETTER than you. What is HAPPENING.
— Nate Geary (@NateGearySports) April 3, 2024
The last two off-seasons for the Texans have completely transformed the franchise.
DeMeco Ryans, CJ Stroud, Will Anderson, Danielle Hunter, Stefon Diggs, etc.
Houston is a top tier destination.
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) April 3, 2024
Wow. What a deal for the Texans. Didn’t give up a 1 and got more picks back. https://t.co/GxxwyccKl3
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) April 3, 2024
There’s no way to talk around it anymore.
If the Dolphins don’t win the AFC East now, it would be a complete disappointment and epic failure.
— David Furones (@DavidFurones_) April 3, 2024
The Diggs trade changes outlook for so many players. Diggs, Nico, Tank, Stroud, Josh Allen, C Samuel, Kincaid, Bills rookie WR. It’s crazy. But I think the main takeaway is that the Texans are legit Super Bowl contenders this year.
— Jason Moore (@jasonffl) April 3, 2024
Of course Stephen A. Smith found a way to make the Stefon Diggs trade about the Dallas Cowboys.
"The big headline is [the Texans] are probably the best team in Texas." pic.twitter.com/ah2nzthi8f
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 3, 2024
The Houston Texans traded for Stefon Diggs and only gave up a 2025 2nd Round pick. The ink hasn’t dried and they already won the trade.
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) April 3, 2024
Diggs was an elite offensive player with the Bills in the 2023 campaign. He started each and every one of Buffalo’s 17 regular-season games and finished with 1,183 receiving yards, eight receiving touchdowns and 58 first downs receiving while averaging 6.3 receptions per game and 11.1 receiving yards per reception. His longest reception of the season went for 55 yards.
The 2023 season marked his sixth season in a row with 1,000-plus receiving yards. The last time he finished with less than quadruple digits in receiving yards was all the way back in the 2017 campaign when he was a member of the Minnesota Vikings.
He totaled 100 or more receiving yards on five occasions during the 2023 regular season. All five of those performances came early on in the season in either September or October.
In a loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct. 8, Diggs accumulated a season-high 121 receiving yards to go along with one receiving touchdown on eight receptions and 11 targets.
Diggs is set to join a Texans team that is fresh off winning the AFC South division with a regular-season record of 10-7. The squad’s offense was led by one of the top young signal-callers in the league in C.J. Stroud, who threw for 4,108 yards and 23 touchdowns compared to only five interceptions in his very first NFL season.
Stroud also helped the Texans win a playoff game against the Cleveland Browns on Jan. 13, as he ended up with 274 passing yards and three touchdowns in a game Houston won by a final score of 45-14. The team ultimately fizzled out in the next round but certainly exceeded expectations during the season.
Texans fans should be excited about the idea of Diggs playing alongside Stroud when the 2024 regular season comes around, as they could make up one of the most lethal offensive duos in the NFL.
