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The Buffalo Bills traded All-Pro wide receiver Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans on Wednesday in a move that surprised many. While he had a slow-ish 2023, Diggs was still franchise quarterback Josh Allen’s top target for a Bills team that has Super Bowl aspirations.
But, as more and more information about the trade comes out, it seems that the relationship between Stefon Diggs and the Buffalo Bills was broken beyond repair. Now, former NFL quarterback and current analyst Chris Simms is claiming that the Bills allowed him to seek a trade with all but one team.
That team would be the Kansas City Chiefs.
Stefon Diggs was allowed to seek a trade from any team in the NFL besides the Kansas City Chiefs according to @CSimmsQB
— Drew Porter (@ChiefsRums) April 4, 2024
That makes a lot of sense, considering the Kansas City Chiefs have owned the Buffalo Bills lately. While the Bills have found ways to beat the Chiefs in the regular season in recent years, that has not carried over to the playoffs.
The Chiefs have knocked the Bills out of the playoffs in the 2020, 2021, and 2023 seasons, denying Buffalo their first trip to the Super Bowl since the 1993 season. Even though they don’t play in the same division, it has turned into one of the biggest rivalries in all of football.
Simply put, Bills fans would’ve been livid if general manager Brandon Beane had given Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs a big-time weapon at wide receiver. It’s one thing to trade a player like Stefon Diggs, but it’s entirely another thing to trade him to a team that is almost certainly going to make you regret it in big games.
I’m sure that Stefon Diggs would’ve loved catching balls from Patrick Mahomes. Instead, he will be catching passes from the league’s best young quarterback in CJ Stroud. Between Stroud and Allen, Diggs has been spoiled by great quarterback play since he was traded from Minnesota to the Bills before the 2020 season.