Diggs-Jefferson the biggest win-win trade in NFL history?

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Dec 8, 2020
Justin Jefferson
Courtesy of vikings.com

Jefferson has more yards and nearly double the TD’s of Diggs despite 29 less catches.

That is all.

Well, not really all.

In what is being described as the biggest win-win NFL trade, both Buffalo Bills receiver Stefon Diggs and superstar Minnesota Vikings receiver/phenom/my new favorite player (despite being sure he’d be yet another in a long line of 1st-round WR busts from the SEC drafted by Vikings GM Rick Spielman) have been A+ acquisitions for their respective teams. For now.

Jefferson has been amazing despite not really being a major part of the game plan in week’s one and two, becoming the fifth receiver EVER to amass over 1,000 yards in his first 12 games. Beyond that, he’s done so despite having far fewer catches than any receiver on that list not named Randy Moss.

Jefferson is a phenom, and the Vikings not only made the right move in trading Diggs, but they officially upgraded at the position. Diggs is great, but Jefferson’s game is more multi-faceted and dominant.

The Bills fans are clearly happy about their trade, too, just check the comments on any of my Diggs articles. Which, as a team that we rarely face (outside of some future Vikings/Bills Super Bowl in which they call the game after two weeks of overtime as a 0-0 tie (because neither does great in the Super Bowl)) is fine. I guess.

Then again, they could’ve saved the pick and landed Jefferson (and saved over $10 mil a season). But hey, Diggs lead the league in receiving at one point, so, in our faces I guess.

But these trades require more time and hindsight, as the Percy Harvin trade seemed a lot better for both parties when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl and Xavier Rhodes was an All Pro.

Considering what Diggs’ SUPPORTERS said about his personality (emotional outbursts = keeping it real! Don’t cross him or you’re dead to him! You know, the stuff people say about nice, professional people who don’t spend their free-time clipping letters from magazines for a ransom note for some neighborhood dog that crossed them?), this trade may not look so great as Jefferson gets better and Diggs realizes he won’t win a Super Bowl in Buffalo (a media market even smaller than Minny).

For now, though, this seems like a rare win-win for both teams. While we wait for that hindsight I’ll just sit here and wait for my autographed JJets jersey to arrive in the mail/wait for the comments from our neighbor to the… North? East? Southeast? Eh. I’ll look it up when I take that road-trip to Buffalo said no one ever.

That’s two East Coast cities I’ve burned this week! Look out, Newark!