Stefon Diggs has made his case loud and clear: if you’re building an offense around elite receivers, he believes he belongs in the No. 2 spot without much debate.
“My opinion, I can compete with anybody,” Diggs said. “But take those [top wide receivers] as your 1s, right? You can't name a No. 2 better than me.
"There's not a No. 2 on a team -- let's presumably give people the credit and just say, 'OK, you want to take the No. 1 spot away,' Name your No. 2 receiver right now, and tell me how much he makes, and then my last question is: Is he better than me?"
That argument lands in a Seattle wide receiver room that already looks crowded at the top. The Seahawks have Cooper Kupp working as their WR2 behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and that’s a pretty strong setup on paper for a player who owns the single-season receiving yards record.
Still, Kupp’s first year in Seattle didn’t come close to the standard he set with the Los Angeles Rams. In the second season of his three-year, $45 million contract, he finished with 47 catches for 593 yards and two touchdowns, a career low for the former third-round pick out of Eastern Washington.
Diggs, meanwhile, has the kind of résumé that makes his claim hard to dismiss. In his lone season with the New England Patriots in 2025, he put up 85 receptions for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns. That was the seventh time since 2018 that he cleared 1,000 receiving yards.
The one exception came in 2024, when he tore his ACL eight games into his stint with the Houston Texans.
Even with Diggs’ production, Seattle does not look like a likely landing spot. Kupp’s contract is part of the reason, and the Seahawks also added Rashid Shaheed on a three-year, $51 million deal while extending Smith-Njigba to a record-setting contract earlier in the offseason.
That doesn’t mean Diggs lacks value. If anything, the numbers suggest he should already be signed. But for Seattle, the more realistic hope is simple: keep him out of the NFC.
The Patriots seem to be moving on after trading for A.J. Brown from the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Seahawks would prefer not to see Diggs end up with another NFC contender such as the Rams, which could make Seattle’s path back to the Super Bowl even tougher.
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