It was reported as a three-year, $69 million take care of $26 million assured. It isn’t.
The brand new Stefon Diggs contract falls quick on each counts, based mostly on the particulars reported by Albert Breer of SI.com.
Right here they’re:
1. Signing bonus: $12 million.
2. 2025 exercise bonus: $200,000.
3. 2025 base wage: $2.9 million, totally assured.
4. 2025 per-game roster bonus: $3.4 million whole.
5. 2026 exercise bonus: $200,000.
6. 2026 base wage: $20.6 million, $1.7 million of which is totally assured and $6 million of which is assured for damage at signing and turns into fully-guaranteed in March 2026.
7. 2026 per-game roster bonus: $1.7 million whole.
8. 2027 roster bonus: $200,000.
9. 2027 base wage: $20.6 million.
10. 2027 roster bonus: $1.7 million whole.
The contract has $4 million in 2025 incentives, with $500,000 unlocked at 70 catches, 80 catches, 90 catches, 100 catches, 1,000 yard, 1,100 yards, 1,200 yards, and 1,300 yards.
There’s additionally an annual $500,000 Professional Bowl incentive.
The bottom worth of the deal is $63.5 million, NOT $69 million. To get to $69 million, Diggs must make the Professional Bowl yearly and catch 100 passes for 1,300 yards in 2025.
The assure at signing is $16.6 million. The full assure is $22.6 million, NOT $26 million.
Apparently, the preliminary stories included the $3.4 million in per-game roster bonuses within the assure. Even when they’re, they nonetheless should be earned. And Diggs — who suffered a torn ACL final season — will lose $200,000 for every recreation his misses.
It’s principally a one-year, $18.5 million deal that features very excessive per-game roster bonuses. It may be $23 million, if he hits all incentives for 2025.
The Patriots can escape the deal by subsequent March, with solely $1.7 million (topic to offset) owed for 2026.
Clearly, an effort was made to make the Diggs deal look higher than it’s. It’s not value $23 million per yr over three. It doesn’t pay $26 million assured. It has one yr of safety, with a crew possibility as as to if it can proceed for 2026 after which for 2027.
