Fantasy Football - Does Stefon Diggs' value change in Buffalo?
In the Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast, Liz Loza and Matt Harmon looks at the trade between Buffalo and Minnesota involving receiver Stefon Diggs. Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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LIZ LOZA: Interestingly, on the day that Kirk Cousins signed a new two-year extension worth $66 million, which will keep him under contract through 2022, Stef Diggs took to social media and said, it's time for a new beginning and that something's going to happen. And this time, it wasn't just a winking emoji left up in the air. In fact, Minnesota sent Diggs and a seventh-round pick to Buffalo in exchange for four picks-- a first, a fifth, a sixth in 2020, and a fourth-rounder in 2021. That is what, a wide receiver one? Which they already have and proved last year in John Brown they had, gets.
MATT HARMON: I mean, yeah. This is like-- if it couldn't possibly get worse for Bill O'Brien, like, then, the Vikings have to go and dunk on him. Like, I love Diggs, but he's not as good of a player as Hopkins is from an all-around wide receiver point. I don't think anybody would argue that, except maybe Stefon Diggs. But even then, I don't know.
Like, I think this is a good move, actually, for both teams because the Vikings get great value back for Stefon Diggs. They get a first-round pick. That's awesome. They still have a really good wide receiver there obviously, and they're a run-based attack. Yada yada, whatever. The question here is, how good of a situation is this for Stefon Diggs from a fantasy perspective? I think you could argue that it's really not that different from the one that he just left.
And I think number one-- obviously, they're a run-heavy team. Both these teams are top seven in run play percentage. Obviously, he-- again, he's going to run with other guys in his offense, which I don't think Diggs cares about as much as we think. Again, when I talked to him a couple of months ago, too, he made the point-- like, I don't-- different receivers put up different numbers because of the situations that they're in, and you know, I've got a great receiver with me. I've got a great running game.
That's not what it's about. It's about being comfortable and winning and all that type of stuff. And there's a chance they're going to be comfortable and win a lot of games for Buffalo. The quarterback, I think, is a big x factor, and not in the same way that Kirk Cousins was a problem--
LIZ LOZA: Right.
MATT HARMON: --but still a question.