Vikings coach Mike Zimmer recently went on the Rich Eisen Show and said “Diggs did not have to go. We didn’t really have any intention of trading him.”
Zimmer mentioned the deal that Buffalo gave them, but he also talked a little bit about Diggs’ tweeting.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said what actually triggered the deal was Diggs’ tweeting. Here’s how he put it:
“What triggered the trade more was Diggs kind of ambiguously tweeting earlier that day about potentially going somewhere,” Rapoport said Friday on NFL Now (H/T 247 Sports).
“What happens, as you know Mike, is when a player kind of brings up his own future and discusses maybe being traded, teams start calling and going, ‘Oh, could we trade for this guy?’ I know that the Buffalo Bills — I believe the Eagles were also a little bit kind of in the mix there — but the Bills were very serious about it, and it was more so them giving an offer the Vikings couldn’t refuse than the Vikings wanting to deal him.”
You can find some of Diggs’ tweets that were more concerning here.
