Stefon Diggs Says He ‘Woke Up Each Day Glad’ After Commerce to Houston (Unique)

• Even in rehab, Stefon Diggs continues to be making performs
• The Houston Texans vast receiver, who tore his ACL in an season-ending damage in October, is providing free pizzas to his fantasy soccer followers
• Headed to free company this offseason, Diggs’ future is unknown, however he tells PEOPLE he has nothing however love for his former teammates on the Buffalo Payments

Stefon Diggs could also be on injured reserve, however he’s delivering an “emergency pizza” to fortunate followers!

The star vast receiver — who tore his ACL in October amid a brand new begin with the Houston Texans — tells PEOPLE in an unique interview that he’s staying within the recreation due to a brand new partnership with Domino’s.

“It’s only a great point for me to be concerned in,” Diggs, 31, tells PEOPLE. “It was a great way to form of give again as a result of that fantasy soccer stuff is fairly severe.”

Within the promotion, followers of Diggs who can show that they’d him on their fantasy groups can win free pizza.

“If you recognize something about it, individuals form of discuss numerous junk about it if you happen to’re not producing any factors,” Diggs stated. “I assumed this can be a nice alternative to provide the individuals one thing that they might profit from, even with me not enjoying.”

When the Maryland native tore his ACL in a late October recreation in opposition to the Colts, it was a devastating second for the resurgent veteran, who was eight video games into his profession in Houston after high-profile run alongside quarterback Josh Allen and the Buffalo Payments.

“It was a whirlwind of feelings after I bought harm,” Diggs tells PEOPLE, including that he was mentally ready for the aftermath and rehab, as a result of his expertise struggling accidents in faculty.

“I nonetheless assume I am extra Wolverine, and I am invincible,” he says.

Previous to the damage — and regardless of having to adapt to Houston’s freeway sprawl and its warmth — Diggs says it’s been a straightforward transition switching to the Texans.

“You bought to know that after I first bought to Houston – even previous to me going to Houston — I threw with C.J. [Stroud] and a few my teammates previous to even being round the entire crew,” he tells PEOPLE. “It felt like I knew them my complete life. I felt like we have been kicking it for a very long time. It felt like brothers, for actual, for actual. So simply that technique of me being in Houston, I used to be so joyful. I awakened day by day joyful. It was slightly scorching, I ain’t going to lie, however day by day I awakened with a smile. Simply the truth that I used to be blessed to be the place I used to be at.”

RIght now, he says he’s proper the place he desires to be — amongst “good guys” who’re accountable for each other — even when Stroud “drags” him to Bible research.

“It is extra layers to it than you’d count on,” Diggs says about his new place in all of it — the place he’s geographically nearer not less than to youthful brother Trevon Diggs, the Dallas Cowboys star cornerback. “It’s larger than soccer.”

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Along with his future in Houston up within the air — and with different groups hoping to land him in free company this spring — Diggs displays on his years in Buffalo, all 37 touchdowns and 5,372 yards of it over 4 seasons, as a “nice time.”

“I at all times need all people to do nicely, particularly aside from after they play me, however apart from that, I am at all times pulling for ’em,” he says in regards to the Payments. “I simply navigate by way of life with numerous love it doesn’t matter what individuals say about me or how issues occur round me. I identical to to maneuver with numerous love. However my time again in Buffalo, I take a look at it as I had a hell of a time. I had a hell of a 12 months, hell of a season. It was good years, man, that I am going to always remember.”