Commanders filling wide receiver need with Stefon Diggs, leaving Brandon Aiyuk to stew in his odd behavior

The Washington Commanders, desperately wanting to adhd wide receiver assistance for their offense, had fundamentally 2 evident and productive seasoned options from which to prime – Stefon Diggs oregon Brandon Aiyuk.

So, the feline who has played for 3 antithetic teams the past 3 seasons and someway wore retired his invited contempt producing 2 1,000-yard seasons successful that clip – Diggs?

Or the feline who signed a large declaration with the San Francisco 49ers successful 2024, got injured, didn't play successful 2025, and has go a campaigner for an involution due to the fact that of his bizarre behaviour successful caller months – Aiyuk?

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Then-New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs appears astatine Dedham District Court. (Staff photograph by Stuart Cahill)

The Commanders are going with Diggs.

Diggs is acceptable to motion with the Commanders, NFL Network archetypal reported connected Wednesday. Diggs volition hold to what is expected to beryllium a one-year declaration and it volition not beryllium a minimum wage deal.

Diggs volition articulation a wide receiver country replete with different veterans, including Terry McLaurin, Treylon Burks, Luke McCaffery and Dyami Brown, each who indispensable nutrient portion rookie Antonio Williams develops.

This is bully for Diggs.

He's from the DMV (D.C., Maryland, and Virginia), he's coming disconnected his archetypal afloat steadfast offseason successful 3 years, and he's erstwhile again playing with a bully backmost successful Jayden Daniels.

Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) reacts aft a play with wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus (14) against the Philadelphia Eagles during the archetypal fractional successful the NFC Championship crippled astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected January 26, 2025 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)

This is not good, however, for Aiyuk.

It's a full-on nationalist connection of what NFL unit radical person been privately telling Fox News Digital astir Aiyuk's behavior. It is filled with off-putting, possibly adjacent disconcerting antics, and teams don't privation to adhd that to their locker room.

What antics, you ask?

• Filming himself portion driving implicit 100 MPH connected the roadworthy adjacent to the San Francisco 49ers grooming installation that Aiyuk declined to study to for overmuch of past season.
• Posting a racetrack video aft an apprehension warrant connected to the alleged speeding was issued.
• Filming himself throwing currency astir the level to mock the 49ers for paying him.
• Mocking manager Kyle Shanahan's caller mishap online. The mishap near Shanahan with a breached hand, breached ribs and assorted different injuries that prevented him from fulfilling each his duties astatine the commencement of grooming camp.

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San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk (11) catches the shot during warmups earlier the crippled against the Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field connected Oct. 10, 2024 successful Seattle, Washington. (Steven Bisig/Imagn Images)

There's much but you get the drift.

Aiyuk didn't fell his tendency to spell to the Commanders due to the fact that helium desperately wants retired of San Francisco and Daniels was his assemblage teammate astatine Arizona State, wherever the 2 had bully chemistry.

The Commanders expressed immoderate involvement successful Aiyuk with the 49ers months ago.

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But that funny waned. And present 1 tin lone ideate however Aiyuk volition respond to the quality that the squad offering his champion accidental for playing this play is going successful different direction.

It mightiness service arsenic a acquisition for him to chopped backmost connected his reputation-harming conduct.

Or not.

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