Stefon Diggs

CTL-E-5969 · Person · other · 1993–present

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Combined Graph record U-07205 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5969.

Stefon Diggs, born Stefon Marsean Diggs on 29 November 1993 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is an American professional football wide receiver for the Washington Commanders. A Maryland Terrapin who stayed home for college, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the fifth round in 2015 and became a starter in Minnesota, where he caught the walk-off touchdown in the January 2018 playoff play known as the Minneapolis Miracle. Traded to Buffalo in 2020, he led the NFL in receptions and receiving yards that season, earned First-team All-Pro honors and made four straight Pro Bowls with the Bills. A 2024 trade sent him to Houston, where a torn ACL ended his season; he recovered to catch 85 passes for 1,013 yards for New England in 2025, reaching Super Bowl LX. Released by the Patriots in March 2026, he signed a one-year contract with Washington that August, a homecoming to the D.C. area, and was on the Commanders' roster — sidelined by a hamstring injury — in October 2026.

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• Also known as: Stefon Marsean Diggs

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 10; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Stefon Diggs entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5969 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1083 (Football Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American professional football wide receiver; Maryland product and four-time Pro Bowler. Vital status: LIVING — Washington Commanders receiver in October 2026, ruled out of the 11 Oct 2026 game against the Giants with a hamstring injury (NBC Sports / PFT, 9 Oct 2026) and did not practice ahead of Week 6 (FanDuel Research, 16 Oct 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Career NFL statistics as of Week 4, 2026: 960 receptions, 11,674 receiving yards, 77 receiving TD (Wikipedia / Pro Football Reference, accessed 2026-10-16); 2025 with New England: 85 receptions, 1,013 yards (Reuters). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons photograph of Stefon Diggs with the Buffalo Bills in 2021; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5969-stefon-diggs.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Relationships

• Buffalo Bills — played for
  Stefon Diggs played for the Buffalo Bills from 2020 to 2023, leading the NFL in receptions and receiving yards in 2020 and making four Pro Bowls (Wikipedia career history; Reuters).
• Houston Texans — played for
  Stefon Diggs played for the Houston Texans in 2024, a season ended by a torn ACL (Wikipedia career history; Reuters).

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Stefon Diggs' — born 29 November 1993, Gaithersburg, Maryland; Maryland (2012–2014); drafted 146th overall by Minnesota in 2015; career history Minnesota (2015–2019), Buffalo (2020–2023), Houston (2024), New England (2025), Washington (2026–present); First-team All-Pro (2020), NFL receptions and receiving-yards leader (2020); career statistics as of Week 4, 2026: 960 receptions, 11,674 yards, 77 TD — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefon_Diggs (primary source · build store)
• Reuters via Field Level Media, 'Reports: Patriots to release WR Stefon Diggs' (4 Mar 2026) — New England to release Diggs; in 2025 he caught 85 passes for 1,013 yards and 4 TD in 17 games for the AFC champions, his seventh 1,000-yard season, after recovering from a torn ACL suffered with Houston in 2024 — https://www.reuters.com/sports/reports-patriots-release-wr-stefon-diggs--flm-2026-03-04/ (build store)
• 98.5 The Sports Hub, 'Stefon Diggs has found his next team' (5 Aug 2026) — Diggs signing a one-year, $12 million contract with the Washington Commanders; a homecoming — he attended high school in Olney, Maryland, and played at the University of Maryland; two-time All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowler with seven 1,000-yard seasons — https://985thesportshub.com/2026/08/05/stefon-diggs-has-found-his-next-team-washington-commanders/ (build store)
• NBC Sports / Pro Football Talk, 'Jayden Daniels will start Sunday, Stefon Diggs out' (9 Oct 2026) — Washington receiver Stefon Diggs (hamstring) ruled out for the 11 Oct game against the Giants — https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/jayden-daniels-will-start-sunday-stefon-diggs-out (build store)

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