Stefon Diggs has stopped crying over Bills fallout and wants to win Super Bowl to make Kobe Bryant proud

Stefon Diggs grew up idolizing Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson.

When Diggs was a kid playing football, he initially was a running back, which meant that Reggie Bush, Adrian Peterson and Michael Vick were his favorite players.

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Diggs reveals why Patriots have been perfect for him

In 2026, Diggs is Drake Maye’s best wide receiver and one win away from being a Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots.

But even dreaming of the Super Bowl was off Diggs’ radar during his youth, and the fifth-round NFL Draft pick from Maryland has always done things his own way.

“When you’re young, I feel like you have your smaller world problems like going to practice, remembering your mouthpiece, remembering your equipment,” Diggs told talkSPORT on Thursday in Santa Clara during the Patriots’ final media session before kickoff for Super Bowl LX on Sunday vs the Seattle Seahawks.

“I never actually thought about it until I got as close to it as I could, when I got in the league. It’s like then, when you start seeing people go to the Super Bowl, you had a chance.

“We lost in the playoffs my first year against against Seattle, like a 26-yard field goal. So at that time, I’m now thinking about it, too. I’m like, ‘Damn, I wish we would have won that game.’ And then you watch other people go throughout the years. The closer I got, the more I thought about it.”

The 32-year-old Diggs sported a crisp Boston Red Sox hat, proudly held up a small Patriots Super Bowl jersey and greeted a legion of waiting cameras with “good morning.”

The 6ft and 191lb receiver has 942 career catches, 11,504 receiving yards, 74 touchdowns, four Pro Bowl selections and two All-Pro honors.

Cardi B rumors follow Diggs everywhere

He’s also currently best known across the globe for being in a relationship with Cardi B, and engagement rumors have the name of the New England receiver all over TMZ, Page Six and E News.

Three days before the big game, Diggs joked with reporters, reflected on an 11-year career filled with different quarterbacks and a few awkward endings, and praised the 23-year-old QB who’s helped revive his NFL name.

“He’s (Maye) just a quarterback that kind of gives credit to everybody else,” Diggs said.

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“But as a receiver, I would like to give him more credit than he actually takes. He can run. He can throw. He can jump. He can cut. He can make people miss. He does a lot (as a) quarterback because this guy’s extremely special.”

Diggs once had a similar bond with Josh Allen in Buffalo.

Two seasons removed from his final game with the Bills, Diggs has found a new home with New England, while Allen has a new head coach in Joe Brady.

Anywhere that Diggs goes, Bills questions still follow.

What went wrong in Buffalo?

“I really think it was just the business side of it,” said Diggs, who acknowledged crying several times as a Bill before he was traded by to the Houston Texans in April 2024.

“A lot of things happen behind closed doors. I never really get into it. I never got into it since I got in the league. My departure in Minnesota, I never spoke. So my departure in Buffalo, never spoke. It’s just I feel like I keep business, business. I keep in-house business. It is what it is, you know what I’m saying?

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“Everybody knows what happened, the people that were in the room, and I kind of leave it at that. I try not to keep it in the public because telling your side of the story won’t win nobody over.”

After a frustrating 2024 season that saw Diggs limited to eight games with the Texans, he doubled his receiving yards during his first year with the Patriots and surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for the seventh time in eight seasons.

The kid who grew up idolizing Bryant, Iverson and Bush must now guide Maye through a Super Bowl that’s supposed to belong to Seattle and the Seahawks’ relentless defense.

From fifth-round pick to verge of championship

Diggs has been through Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Bradford, Case Keenum, Kirk Cousins, Allen and C.J. Stroud.

He’s bounced from Minnesota to Buffalo, Houston and New England.

Now Diggs proudly holds up a Patriots Super Bowl jersey for the world to see — and he wants a world championship trophy to go along with it.

“At this point, rejoice,” Diggs told talkSPORT.

“You have a moment to be like, damn, you’re going. But what’s the point of going if you ain’t trying to win nothing, if you ain’t trying to leave with something?”

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