Bills Predicted to Suffer Stefon Diggs' Revenge in Week 5 Matchup

It has been six months since the Bills traded away Stefon Diggs to the Texans for a 2025 draft pick, a move that was driven equally by the Bills' untenable offseason financial situation as by a franchise that had grown weary of the star receiver's unpredictable off-field and locker-room presence.

As the Bills and Texans prepare to face each other for a Week 5 contest in Houston, the Diggs rhetoric is not very sharp. Both teams are 3-1, and this game represents something bigger than Diggs and his treament of/by Buffalo. The winner is likely the frontrunner to challenge the Chiefs for AFC supremacy.

Still, personally, much is at stake for Diggs. After a bitter departure from Buffalo, he has 25 catches ( seventh in the NFL ) and 233 yards through four games with the Texans, who have sought to give him more responsibility as a team leader.

This is an opportunity for Diggs to exact some revenge against the Bills. ESPN analyst Ryan Clark, a 13-year NFL veteran and Pro Bowl defensive back, said on "Get Up" on Friday that he expects Diggs to get that revenge.

"I believe he will," Clark said. "I believe the Houston Texans win this game, and the one thing I do love about Stefon Diggs, who has been voted the captain in Houston, is that this team rallies around him. This team sees him as a mentor.

"He has been able to rebuild some of the things we heard out of the Bills locker room, in his new destination. I think they’ll play hard for him, and I also believe he will play well against the Buffalo Bills."

Diggs, who went to four Pro Bowls in his four years in Buffalo, has brushed off revenge-game chatter, though.

"A lot of other people are going to have their say about how they feel about X-Y-Z," he told reporters in Houston. "I am not mad at it. I try not to get into the back and forth of opinions or personally, how other people feel. It’s a job. I got a job to do. Just trying to get it done."