- Stefon Diggs agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $12 million after 1,013 yards for New England.
- Washington lost Deebo Samuel Sr., its 2025 leader with 72 catches, to San Francisco on Aug. 1.
- Jayden Daniels played seven games last season and Terry McLaurin 10 as Washington finished 5-12.
- The Commanders are +6500 to win Super Bowl LXI, tied for 21st of 32 teams.
LANDOVER, Md. – Wide receiver Stefon Diggs reached agreement with Washington on Wednesday, a one-year contract that maxes out at $12 million and lands four days after the Commanders lost Deebo Samuel Sr., their leading receiver in 2025, to San Francisco.
Samuel Left On Aug. 1, Diggs Agreed To Terms Aug. 5
Samuel led Washington in 2025 with 72 receptions and 727 yards, adding five touchdowns across 16 games, and he took 17 handoffs for 75 more yards and another score. The 49ers signed him to a one-year deal worth up to $7 million on Aug. 1, the same day they placed Ricky Pearsall on injured reserve.
That left Terry McLaurin, Treylon Burks, Luke McCaffrey, Van Jefferson, Dyami Brown and rookie Antonio Williams in the receiver room, with no established second option. Diggs is the answer Washington bought, and the one-year term makes that answer temporary by design.
The contract is worth more than $10 million with a $12 million ceiling. Diggs grew up in Gaithersburg, Md.
What Diggs Is At 32, Read Off The Route Tree
Diggs caught 85 passes for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns in 17 starts for New England in 2025. The yardage is the number that will get quoted and the least useful one in that line. He averaged 11.9 yards a catch, under his career 12.4, and his longest reception went 34 yards against a career long of 75.
That is a possession profile. Diggs won on volume underneath rather than as a field-stretcher, which is what a receiver who tore an ACL in Houston and is entering a 12th season should be expected to be. New England signed him to a three-year contract in March 2025, got that season out of him on the way to Super Bowl LX, then released him at the start of the new league year.
The fit is cleaner than the raw totals suggest. McLaurin averaged 15.3 yards on his 38 catches in 2025 and 14.2 for his career, so Washington now pairs a downfield receiver with a high-volume intermediate one rather than two players competing for the same targets.
The Variable Is Whether Daniels Is On The Field
Jayden Daniels played seven games in 2025 and completed 114 of 188 attempts for 1,262 yards with eight touchdowns, three interceptions and an 88.1 passer rating, while taking 18 sacks. As a rookie in 2024 he played all 17 games, completed 69.0% for 3,568 yards with 25 touchdowns against nine interceptions, posted a 100.1 rating and ran for 891 yards.
The completion percentage fell 8.4 points year over year, to 60.6%, and the passer rating dropped 12 points. It is also 188 attempts, nowhere near enough volume to treat as a real decline in accuracy, and it was compiled around a Week 2 knee sprain, a Week 7 hamstring problem and a left elbow he dislocated in Week 9.
Daniels reaggravated the elbow in a Week 14 loss to Minnesota, and Washington shut him down for the final three games on Dec. 15. Marcus Mariota finished the year, and the Commanders went 5-12 and third in the NFC East a season after going 12-5.
Availability, not scheme, caps the target volume here. Neither Diggs nor McLaurin can be a 1,000-yard receiver on an offense that hands the ball to a backup for six weeks.
The +6500 Price Was Set Before Diggs Agreed
Washington sits tied for 21st of 32 teams on the Super Bowl LXI board at +6500, a price that implies roughly 1.5%. That price was posted before Diggs agreed to terms, so it reads the roster the market saw without him rather than any reaction to Wednesday.
Implied percentages across all 32 teams on that board sum to about 123%, roughly 23 points of overround, so every implied figure runs inflated against a fair market. Odds are the payout and not the probability, and the read on Washington across legal Super Bowl betting sites is whether a healthy Daniels plus a second receiver beats a number built on a 5-12 season and a quarterback who missed 10 games.
Daniels is +400 for Comeback Player of the Year, second on that market behind Patrick Mahomes at +185. Comeback awards price off narrative as much as production, and Daniels is the rare candidate whose 2024 baseline is documented across a full season, the same reason legal NFL betting sites will treat his first healthy month as the season’s live variable.
Miami On Aug. 14, Philadelphia On Sept. 13
Washington opens the preseason at home against the Miami Dolphins on Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. ET, visits the Detroit Lions in Week 2 on a date still to be set, and plays at the Baltimore Ravens on Aug. 28.
Both Washington numbers, the +6500 outright and the +400 comeback price, have five weeks to move on legal sports betting boards. The regular season opens at the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 4:25 p.m. ET.
