Wide Receiver

Stefon Diggs

No. 8 · 12th season

Home is twenty miles away, and Diggs knows it

There are cities a player can sign with, and then there are cities that mean something. For Stefon Diggs, Washington is not just another option on the board.

Diggs grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland — close enough to the nation's capital that the Washington Commanders are, in the truest sense, the home team. He is a free agent now, with choices, and the Commanders are among the teams he is considering.

What makes this more than a transaction is something Diggs has said himself: the fans in his hometown area matter to him. That is not the kind of thing a player says when a city is just a contract. That is the kind of thing you say when you have spent a lifetime being someone's neighbor.

Most players chase a ring, a role, or a paycheck. Diggs has all three as reasons to weigh his next move. But playing twenty miles from where you grew up, in front of people who watched you become who you are — that is a different kind of weight entirely.

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