{"id":384407,"date":"2026-07-23T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384407\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:34:13","slug":"commanders-projected-to-lose-wr-stefon-diggs-to-rival-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384407\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders Projected to Lose WR Stefon Diggs to Rival Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Commanders<\/a> remain among the most likely candidates to add a wide receiver before the NFL<\/a> season begins less than two months from now, but the options appear to be dwindling fast.<\/p>\n

A couple months ago, Brandon Aiyuk<\/a> looked like a promising candidate. However, he has imploded on social media to a significant degree since, and it\u2019s unclear if the Commanders will even be interested should Aiyuk ever actually get his release from the San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tyreek Hill<\/a> is also a name that has floated around free agency for months, and which analysts have explored frequently as a potential fit in Washington. But he said Thursday, July 23 that he has \u201cno power<\/a>\u201d in his injured leg approximately 10 months after suffering a torn ACL and dislocated knee.<\/p>\n

That leaves Stefon Diggs<\/a> as arguably the most sensible option remaining for the Commanders, though other teams have incentive to seek out his services, including potentially the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jarrett Bailey of SB Nation had a different thought earlier this week when he predicted that Diggs will ultimately ink a deal with the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> to join a juggernaut offense that already includes CeeDee Lamb<\/a> and George Pickens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cowboys Could Field Impossibly Talented Group of WRs by Adding Stefon Diggs
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GettyWide receiver Stefon Diggs, formerly of the New England Patriots<\/a><\/p>\n

Baily authored 61 predictions for the upcoming campaign, the first of which was that Diggs will land in Dallas and not Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know everyone is metaphorically stuffing Diggs in a box, taping him up, and FedEx-ing him to the Washington Commanders\u2019 facility in Landover, but it\u2019s another NFC East team that we should keep an eye on,\u201d Bailey contended<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of stars CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens, Dallas has zero depth at receiver. Ryan Flournoy<\/a>, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Kavontae Turpin are the names behind the terrific duo \u2014 that simply won\u2019t cut it,\u201d he continued. \u201cSigning Diggs as a chess piece who can move around both on the perimeter and the slot, just like Lamb and Pickens can do, would give the Cowboys the best trio of pass-catchers in the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cowboys\u2019 Need at Wide Receiver Doesn\u2019t Match Stefon Diggs\u2019 Likely Price Tag
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GettyWide receiver Ryan Flournoy of the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n

The two biggest problems with Bailey\u2019s prediction are that Dallas may not have the money to pay Diggs, and that trying to find it arguably isn\u2019t worth the effort given Flournoy\u2019s trajectory.<\/p>\n

If the Cowboys feel the same as several prominent analysts do about their 2024 sixth-round pick, they won\u2019t be looking to spend any more money on WRs. The team has just shy of $5.5 million<\/a> in available salary cap space, while Diggs\u2019 market value is two years and $27.65 million total, according to Spotrac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is no guarantee Diggs gets that much. But based on need, it is reasonable to expect he could squeeze more out of Washington or Kansas City than Dallas as Week 1 approaches.<\/p>\n

Flournoy, meanwhile, will cost the Cowboys just $1.075 million<\/a> this season. As such, if Dallas believes he can improve in any meaningful way beyond the 40 catches for 475 yards and four TDs<\/a> he provided last season, it doesn\u2019t make sense to spend so much more heavily on a 32-year-old pass-catcher in Diggs who is nearly six years Flournoy\u2019s senior.<\/p>\n

That goes double for Dallas considering its defense, while improved this offseason, still demands more immediate investment than the offense \u2014 and triple when contemplating how Pickens might react to the team paying a veteran WR3 a significant amount on a two-year deal when it refused to negotiate a longterm extension with him this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders remain among the most likely candidates to add a wide receiver before the NFL season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-384407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}