{"id":377807,"date":"2025-12-30T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:52:10","slug":"nfl-is-aware-of-criminal-charges-against-stefon-diggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377807\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL is &#8220;aware&#8221; of criminal charges against Stefon Diggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, news emerged of a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/stefon-diggs-faces-a-felony-strangulation-or-suffocation-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">criminal case<\/a> against Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs. He faces a felony charge of \u201cstrangulation or suffocation\u201d and a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has issued the following statement on the situation: \u201cWe are aware of the matter and have been in contact with the club. We have no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The league could, based on the specific allegations, place Diggs on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfl-could-potentially-place-stefon-diggs-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">paid leave<\/a>. First, the league needs to review the situation before making any decisions about whether the case merits the placement of Diggs on the Commissioner Exempt list.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the situation is unfolding at a critical time. The playoffs start next week. The Patriots will play in the wild-card round, unless they secure the No. 1 seed and the bye that comes with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday morning, news emerged of a criminal case against Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs. He faces a felony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}