- Even in rehab, Stefon Diggs is still playing
- The Houston Texans wide receiver, who tore his ACL in a season-ending injury in October, is offering free pizzas to his fantasy football fans
- Set to enter free agency this offseason, Diggs’ future is unknown, but he tells PEOPLE he has nothing but love for his former Buffalo Bills teammates
Stefon Diggs may be injured reserve, but he’s delivering “emergency pizza” to lucky fans!
The star catcher — who tore his ACL in October amid a fresh start with the Houston Texans — says in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE that he’s staying in the game thanks to his new partnership with Domino.
“It’s a great thing for me to be a part of,” Diggs, 31, tells PEOPLE. “It was a good way to kind of give back because that fantasy football stuff is pretty serious.”
In the promotion, Diggs fans who can prove they had him on their fantasy teams can win a free pizza.
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“If you know anything about it, people talk a lot of crap about it if you don’t give any points,” Diggs said. “I thought this was a great opportunity to give people something they can benefit from, even when I’m not playing.”
When the Maryland native tore his ACL in a game against the Colts in late October, it was a devastating moment for the returning veteran, who played eight career games in Houston after a high-profile run with quarterback Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.
“It was a whirlwind of emotions when I got hurt,” Diggs tells PEOPLE, adding that he was mentally prepared for the aftermath and rehab because of his experience with injuries in college.
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“I still think I’m more Wolverine and I’m invincible,” he says.
Before the injury — and despite having to adjust to Houston’s highway sprawl and heat — Diggs says the transition to the Texans was easy.
“You have to know that when I first got to Houston – even before I went to Houston – I played with CJ [Stroud] and a few of my teammates before I was even around the whole team,” he tells PEOPLE. “It seemed as if I had known them all my life. I felt like we had been hitting him for a long time. It felt like brothers, really, really. I was so happy with the process of my stay in Houston. I woke up happy every day. It was a bit hot, I won’t lie, but I woke up with a smile every day. Just the fact that I’ve been blessed to be where I am.”
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Right now, he says he’s exactly where he wants to be — among “good guys” who are responsible for each other — even if Stroud “drags” him to Bible study.
“It’s more layers than you’d expect,” Diggs says of his new place in it all — where he’s geographically closer to at least younger brother Trevon Diggs, star cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys. “It’s bigger than football.”
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With his future in Houston up in the air — and with other teams hoping to land him in free agency this spring — Diggs reflects on his years in Buffalo, all 37 touchdowns and 5,372 yards over four seasons, as “a great time “. ”
“I always want everybody to do well, especially when they’re not playing me, but other than that, I’m always rooting for them,” he says of the Bills. “I just sail through life with a lot of love regardless of what people say about me or how things happen around me. I just like to move with a lot of love. But the time I spent in Buffalo, I look back on it like I had a heck of a time. I had a hell of a year, a hell of a season. Those were good years, man, that I’ll never forget.”
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