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Why the Stefon Diggs blockbuster trade isn’t apples-to-apples to Brandon Aiyuk’s extension

Related Topics: Stefon Diggs, Brandon Aiyuk

The Buffalo Bills and Houston Texans made a rare early April trade Wednesday morning. In exchange for a 2025 second-round pick, the Bills sent wide receiver Stefon Diggs, a 2024 sixth-round pick, and a 2025 fifth-round pick to Houston.

If your initial reaction was, “Yeah, no way the San Francisco 49ers are trading away Brandon Aiyuk if that’s the asking price, then you were not alone. But the two situations couldn’t be more different.

On one side, we have Stefon Diggs, a seasoned player who will turn 31 in the middle of the 2024 season and was drafted in 2015.