Buffalo Payments basic supervisor Brandon Beane was requested throughout Tuesday’s end-of-season information convention if he nonetheless believes Stefon Diggs is a No. 1 huge receiver after Diggs ended this season with considerably of a whimper.
“He’s a No. 1 receiver,” Beane immediately answered, as shared by Josh Alper of Professional Soccer Discuss. “I firmly consider that. I’m not wavering off of that.”
Diggs’ alleged frustrations over his function within the offense repeatedly generated headlines final offseason, however Beane insisted in early August he by no means got here near buying and selling the 30-year-old regardless of reviews suggesting in any other case.
Diggs finally was named a crew captain, and ESPN stats present he completed the common season ranked seventh within the NFL with 107 receptions, thirteenth with 1,183 receiving yards and tied for eighth with eight landing grabs.
Nevertheless, Diggs recorded his final landing catch of the marketing campaign in Buffalo’s Week 12 loss on the Philadelphia Eagles. He was additionally responsible of a expensive fourth-quarter drop within the membership’s divisional-round playoff defeat in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs this previous Sunday.
“Pay attention, we have now to proceed to place weapons on the market to maintain groups from bracketing him or locking him down in numerous methods to take him away,” Beane added about Diggs. “They know you’re gonna wish to — Stef can nonetheless play. I’m certain he would like to have that deep ball (versus the Chiefs) once more. He’d be the primary to inform you. He’s tremendous aggressive. He’s going to work his tail off this offseason. I do know there’s numerous causes or questions on this, there’s manufacturing and all that, however I nonetheless see Stef as a No. 1 receiver.”
Per Ryan O’Halloran of The Buffalo Information, Payments head coach Sean McDermott stated Tuesday that the crew is just not going through “a scenario the place you strip it all the way down to the studs and begin throughout.”
Thus, McDermott and firm seemingly will want Diggs to play at a Professional Bowl degree past November 2024 because the membership hopes to make it to and previous subsequent January’s AFC Championship recreation.
