Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR 550) - Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs has signed a four-year contract extension with the club, keeping him in Buffalo for the next six seasons, according to ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter.
After his incredible 2020 season, in which he led the league in both receptions and yards, Diggs didn’t put up the same monster totals in 2021, but he was still one of the top wideouts in the NFL. The 28-year-old finished in the top-10 in both receptions (103) and yards (1,225), and actually surpassed his 2020 touchdown total going from eight to 10, which was tied for sixth-most in the league.
There’s no question Diggs is the No. 1 receiver on this Bills team, but there was a lingering question about his current contract and if the Bills or Diggs feel they needed to re-work it. This given Tyreek Hill's new $30 million per-year deal with the Miami Dolphins and Davante Adams' $28 million per-season deal with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Factoring in Diggs' current deal with two years remaining, Schefter reports it then becomes six years at $124.1 million. That's just over $20 million per-year for the next six years that Diggs will be under contract with the Bills.
Diggs was scheduled to have a base salary of just over $12.5 million in 2022 with a salary cap hit of roughly $18 million in each of the next two seasons. Details have yet to emerge, but those numbers could possibly change given the extension, and the Bills could have even created more cap room this year by doing so.
According to the NFLPA's public salary cap report, the Bills have less than $287,000 remaining in available salary cap space for this coming season. They'll need over $2 million of space to sign their draft picks.
Diggs came to Buffalo prior to the 2020 season when the Bills traded a first round pick to acquire him from the Minnesota Vikings.
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