He’s a high-profile and highly-paid NFL superstar who at the very least wears his emotions on his sleeve … with some observers suggesting that he rather thrives on some of the drama that surrounds him …
A portion of which he creates himself.
Now the Bills forge into an offseason in which they are presently $51 million over next season’s salary cap. So there is work to be done there. Math. We call it “Big Calculators and Sharp Pencils,” but our colleague Peter King – as it applies to Diggs – has another term for it: “Major Surgery.’
Now the Bills forge into an offseason in which they are presently $51 million over next season’s salary cap. So there is work to be done there. Math. We call it “Big Calculators and Sharp Pencils,” but our colleague Peter King – as it applies to Diggs – has another term for it: “Major Surgery.’
A possibility for the Bills and Diggs is of course the restructuring of his contract. That can be done in a number of ways. A “restructure” could mean “moving his money” while not actually changing his salary.
But another sort of “restructure” is a “renegotiation” that would reduce the player’s income. And NFL insider King is clearly referring to the possibility of the latter when he writes …
“I think Buffalo GM Brandon Beane has some big decisions to make, maybe none bigger than what to do with Stefon Diggs,” King wrote. “Diggs is 30. He’s due for a cap number of $27.9 million next year, which, for a player who didn’t have a 100-yard receiving day in the Bills’ last 13 games, is quite excessive .
I expect the Bills to want to do major surgery on Diggs’ deal, and I expect Diggs to not be happy about it.”
King is as plugged in as it gets. He didn’t make this idea up himself.
He’s right about the stats, of course; Diggs finished the season with 107 catches for 1,183 yards and eigh touchdowns, but the second half of the year marked a bad run, and in the playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, he ended up catching three passes for just 21 yards.
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