{"id":796021,"date":"2026-07-12T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:59:29","slug":"free-agent-stefon-diggs-says-no-wr2-is-better-than-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796021\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent Stefon Diggs says no WR2 is better than him"},"content":{"rendered":"

With training camp right around the corner, wide receiver Stefon Diggs is among several big-name players who remain without a home.<\/p>\n

Diggs became a free agent on March 11 when the Patriots released him in a cost-cutting move.<\/p>\n

The Patriots replaced Diggs, their leading wide receiver last season, with a true No. 1 wideout in A.J. Brown. Diggs admits he is no longer a No. 1 wide receiver, but he said he\u2019s better than any of the NFL\u2019s No. 2 wide receivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy opinion, I can compete with anybody<\/a>,\u201d Diggs said in a video on his YouTube channel last week. \u201cBut take those [top wide receivers] as your 1s, right? You can\u2019t name a No. 2 better than me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diggs said \u201cpresumably\u201d all 32 NFL teams have their No. 1 wide receiver for this season. He argued, though, that there are only seven \u201creal [No.] 1s\u201d in the league. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a No. 2 on a team — let\u2019s presumably give people the credit and just say, \u2018OK, you want to take the No. 1 spot away,\u2019\u201d Diggs said. \u201cName your No. 2 receiver right now, and tell me how much he makes, and then my last question is: Is he better than me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Diggs, 32, underestimates some of the top receiving duos in the league.<\/p>\n

The Bengals have Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins; the Cowboys have CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens; the Rams have Davante Adams and Puka Nacua; the Patriots have Brown and Romeo Doubs; the Lions have Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams; and the Vikings have Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison.<\/p>\n

To his point, though, Diggs still has something left. He had a team-leading 85 receptions for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns last season, adding 14 catches for 110 yards and a touchdown in four postseason games.<\/p>\n

Diggs has seven 1,000-yard seasons in his career.<\/p>\n

The NFL closed its review of Diggs last month after he was found not guilty in May of assaulting his private chef in a pay dispute. Still, he remains in search of his next team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI brought myself here,\u201d Diggs said. \u201cUnfortunate at times, but I\u2019m blessed. I\u2019m going to be exactly where I\u2019m supposed to be. . . . I\u2019ll be fine. I know I\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With training camp right around the corner, wide receiver Stefon Diggs is among several big-name players who remain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-796021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}