"I feel like it's been a slow build-up throughout the past couple weeks,"
"I had to keep my eyes in the front of me, not what's behind me. I was injured, and it was something that weighed on me for a long time, and I was just fighting to get back, fighting to be on another team and prove it again -- not only prove it to everybody else, but prove it to myself."
"I knew that I could do it, and so I was confident, but when things like this turn the corner ... this is why you're consistent. This is why you don't waver. This is why you don't flinch."
Stefon Diggs recorded six receptions for 101 yards in New England's 42-13 victory over the Carolina Panthers, ending a 22-game run of sub-100-yard performances. The game represented a milestone in his return from a torn right ACL suffered last October. Diggs signed a three-year, $69 million deal with the Patriots in March and had been eased into action early in the season, playing 53% of snaps in the first three games. New England expanded his role against Carolina, using him in multiple alignments, especially in the slot formerly occupied by DeMario "Pop" Douglas. The performance was the 37th 100-yard receiving game of Diggs' 11-year career and sets up his upcoming return to Buffalo, where he played from 2020 to 2023.
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